to think my MIL has turned into Letitia Cropley?

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Arrive at MIL’s for dinner and ask what we are having “a lamb tagine” she replies. Lovely.

We sit down to the table and we’re dished up a lamb tagine served with broad beans from the garden, okay fair enough so far. Stuffing balls, “pineapple guacamole” and a mini sausage roll.

Pudding will be ginger roly poly with “milk and raspberries”. I don’t know what this means.

This is too funny!

Eeek! Thank you for reminding me about Letitia Cropley, I loved her!!

I bet you are really looking forward to sampling the bacon, egg and other breakfasty thing crumble.

Op sorry I have to ask
Not least because my sister is a huge fan of
Letitia Cropley!

Was the pineapple actually blended in?!

Does she usually serve you this sort of 'eclectic ' menu op?

Blimey.

I’m all for interesting flavour combinations but this is just...odd. That, or her freezer is on the fritz and you’re the recipient of everything that was the wrong side of a defrost.

Does your MIL usually go this off piste?

Start referring to her as ‘always let’s you park your boat in her jetty Letty’ and see where it gets you.

She normally serves a meal “with a twist” with whatever is in the garden. So Shepard’s pie with a bit of spice and a load of broad beans, perfectly passable this is a stoke of weirdness we have yet to encounter.

The pineapple was both blended in and also in chunks.

Okay thanks OP.

Maybe ask her if she knows of Letitia?! Is she playing a joke to see how long it takes someone to query her?

i think it sounds nice!
i still have bananas and milk :)

OMG - hate it when people think they’re Heston bloody Blumenthal!!! 🤢🤮🤢

Maybe ask her if she knows of Letitia?! Is she playing a joke to see how long it takes someone to query her
She probably does know of Letitia however she really isn’t the prolonged joke type.

Have you experienced the breakfast crumble, or was it back to normal-ish service?

Breakfast crumble was has whilst I was on my run.
Seemingly it was fried potatoes cooked in bacon fat, sausage meat and egg baked in the oven with an oat and breadcrumb topping.

I had berries and yoghurt.

Erm pictures or this didn't happen.

Breakfast crumble might actually work without the oats.....

I do something similar for breakfast when all the family are about - but without the crumble. Sausages, bacon, tomoatoes, mushrooms and eggs baked in the oven - yum yum. Got the recipe from an American friend - they eat it a lot over there apparently.

Raspberries and milk is NOT a thing.

Nor is roly poly and milk. Though I once saw an actor pour milk on his apple pie...but that was only because the cream had run out.

We would fight to have ”top of the milk” (where the cream has risen to the top of the bottle) as children, usually on tinned peaches. Not milk though!