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To ask about your regional food that tastes delicious

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agododopushpineapple · 01/09/2020 20:55

Am just watching an old Masterchef episode and one of the contestants is doing Greek food that I’ve never heard of.
It also got me thinking about when a friend cooked me something called pinacculty (if that’s how it’s spelled)?

Tell me about your lesser known local food specialities.

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agododopushpineapple · 02/09/2020 19:19

Loads of these sound absolutely great! Am wondering why - when I could probably order say a Peruvian feast in two seconds flat I don’t know if anywhere here in London that does Parmos - is love to try one.

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GreeboIsMySpiritAnimal · 02/09/2020 19:22

@CaptainPovey

Hi *@GreeboIsMySpiritAnimal*

I love a saveloy, not so keen on the Urban Dictionary version of Saveloy Dip that was returned in my search results.

Didn't even have to click into it it to read

Envy Envy

I just Googled that to check - why did I do that? I could have gone on quite happily not knowing that. ShockBlushConfused

Thesearmsofmine · 02/09/2020 19:22

Parkin
Pikelets
Mucky fat 🤢

1FootInTheRave · 02/09/2020 19:38

Pasty barm.
Rag pudding.

Both of which I could eat now!

loutypips · 02/09/2020 19:40

Pie n mash!!! With plenty of liquor with vinegar all over! Yummy 😋

JesusInTheCabbageVan · 02/09/2020 19:50

@loutypips yes!! Outsiders just don't get it Sad

loutypips · 02/09/2020 20:03

Hahaha no! I remember when we took my cousins to Manzes they were disgusted. "Green gravy! That's not normal" they said! 😂

TheSunIsStillShining · 02/09/2020 20:06

I'm saving this thread and will start adding some of these dishes to my repertoire :)

Antirrhinum · 02/09/2020 20:12

Proper bacon broth, thick with dried pulses and root veg, cooked in the stock from boiling the bacon or ham hock. With chunks of stottie to dip in it. Every housewife would have her own variation; my nana and DM would use grated veg in theirs, so that's how I make it.

JesusInTheCabbageVan · 02/09/2020 20:15

@loutypips I subject DH to The Ordeal every time we go to London. My record was four pies - can't manage that nowadays though.

Namechangeforthis88 · 02/09/2020 20:24

Has nobody mentioned Edinburgh chippie sauce? Brown sauce diluted with vinegar. Possibly with extra salt. Some chippies sell it pre-made, typically in Barr's bottles. I missed it much when I lived down South.

Lemonyfuckit · 02/09/2020 20:28

@Horses4

Rowies. How I miss them now I don’t live in Aberdeen.
My DP is from Aberdeenshire and has introduced me to rowies (his mum posts them to us) and macaroni pies. Both filthy and delicious.

My mum used to make curd tart and my dad used to make lardy cake - also all delicious.

MulticolourMophead · 02/09/2020 20:29

@Gottheteeshirtandlostit

Scottish white pudding (just oatmeal, onion and lard), stovies, tablet, haggis, rowies, smokies. Starving now.
My dad's dad came from Scotland and dad got the taste for haggis. And now my DS has, too. He'll go and have a haggis dinner with dad now and again. It's great for dad, as DB and I don't like haggis. It's great for DS, too, he enjoys dad's company.

And while I also don't like black pudding, this white pudding sounds ok, might be nice to try.

Timeforanotherusername · 02/09/2020 20:30

@Namechangeforthis88

Has nobody mentioned Edinburgh chippie sauce? Brown sauce diluted with vinegar. Possibly with extra salt. Some chippies sell it pre-made, typically in Barr's bottles. I missed it much when I lived down South.
Yuck!

I'll have it the proper way.

Thankfully that has never been popular on the West Coast.

Timeforanotherusername · 02/09/2020 20:32

I like the fruit pudding that you get in Scotland.

And dumpling. Saw it mentioned earlier and thought how could I forget that!

TylluanBach · 02/09/2020 20:35

Lobsgows Grin

BitOfANameChange · 02/09/2020 20:37

@thenaughtyone

Pork pies and Stilton cheese!
Oooh, a fellow local Grin

I love pork pie. I didn't like Stilton for a long time, but I'll eat it now and again, nowadays.

Stilton tastes very different when it's cooked. Makes a great sauce for chicken.

SuitedandBooted · 02/09/2020 20:45

Bara lawr.

MulticolourMophead · 02/09/2020 20:48

@Graphista

I think you might be meaning panackelty which is a north east variation on scouse/stovies etc made with corned beef.

A Sunderland native friend of mine makes this.

I’m a weegie (Glaswegian) so we’ve TONS and no it’s not all deep fried/unhealthy - oh who am I kidding? The best are unhealthy!

Off the top of my head working from breakfast on:

Glasgow fry - fry up but with square sausage, tattie scones, black and white pudding, preferably served with a good strong mug of scottish blend builders tea

Hot rolls - a morning roll (crusty top, soft bottom and inside, preferably Morton’s) filled with your own personal favourite fried breakfast items, mine is a good fried egg (cooked white runny yolk - yes it gets messy!) and 2 tattie scones with a squirt of brown sauce - sauces optional and own choice but tend to be ketchup, brown or mustard

Scotch pancakes - thicker and smaller than English pancakes

Scotch broth - of course, every family has their own recipe, but in my experience most households have a favoured soup recipe of some description. A meal in themselves especially when served with rolls or pan bread and butter

Tablet - a fudge like confection but with TONS more sugar so it’s harder and crumbly, similar texture to the inside of Kendall mint cake? Various companies have tried to create commercial varieties but its NEVER as good as home made and most corner shops/independent sweet shops sell home made tablet.

Macaroon - NOT to be confused with macaron. Also a confection made from mashed potato (yes really!) and icing sugar coated in chocolate and toasted desiccated coconut. Again home made is the best.

Strawberry tarts - a short pastry base, filled with a version of creme pat type filling I’ve never had anywhere else, a large fresh hulled and cleaned strawberry upside down and a diabetes inducing strawberry syrup smothered over the top so an unctuous pyramid of delight is created. Again very messy to eat but soooooo good! The best in my opinion are from aulds bakers

Irn bru to wash it down

Stovies - again every family has their own version but basically a meat and veg stew, I do my family’s version using meat substitutes and it’s still pretty good

Haggis - again veggie haggis pretty damn good too

Macaroni cheese pie - exactly as described, a hot water crust pastry (my favourite part) pie shell filled with macaroni cheese, topped either simply with grated cheese or mashed potato (Cos why have 2 carbs when you can have 3?) and grated cheese - usually good strong scottish cheddar.

Pizza crunch - battered and deep fried pizza, NOT greasy and gross but done well is light and crunchy and very tasty

I’m also an army brat and lived all over Uk and find this post:

Does England really do regional dishes? an unnecessarily negative comment!

There are loads of stews/casseroles, pies, tarts, cakes, biscuits, drinks etc that are particular to various regions.

I am a basic baker myself and there are loads of breads, rolls and cakes i remember from places I’ve lived and I’d love to be able to get here but aren’t available to me.

I'm positively drooling at some of the food you've mentioned. My dad used to bring a few things down with him when he drove buses up to Scotland many, many years ago.

Couple of comments. Is square sausage simply sausage meat formed into a square shape? Or is it more like a square shaped log cut into slices?

And your reference to mashed potato in macaroons has reminded me I got a recipe from YouTube for some soft, fluffy buns that include mashed potato in the recipe. Seems to have been a US recipe from before the war, and the YouTuber was having to work out some omissions from the recipe.

SweatyAmy · 02/09/2020 20:49

Lincolnshire poacher cheese
Lincolnshire plum bread
Lincolnshire sausages (veggie version for me these days, quorn do a decent one)
Battered Lincolnshire sausage from the chippy (alas, not now I'm veggie, yet to find a chippy which will deep fry a meat free sausage)

From my Welsh side of the family:

Welsh cakes
Bara brith
Glamorgan sausages

Therunecaster · 02/09/2020 20:54

@agododopushpineapple

Frantically googling some of these! I’ve never had a Parmo - but really do want to try one - sounds so up my street!
Ahhh a chicken parmo Bloody gorgeous from Teesside, a bit shit from elsewhere.
newtb · 02/09/2020 20:55

billy1996 I live in the Corrèze, just north of Brive la Gaillarde and before Christmas even Lidl and Aldi have foie gras--the food banks are full of it in January. Lidl do big tins of confit which have a load of duck fat in, and tins of gizzards.

chunkyrun · 02/09/2020 20:59

Butter pies

SweatyAmy · 02/09/2020 21:08

@DrCoconut

Plum bread is local but contains dried fruit 🤢. Haslet contains meat. But a good veggie pie with mash, mushy peas and gravy. Get it down yer, as my grandad used to say.
Ha, my Dad always says "Get it down yer" Grin
Graphista · 02/09/2020 21:15

@multicolourmophead

My family and I are Scots but dad was army, so when we were based outside Scotland my mum used to take an empty suitcase “home” purely so she could pack it solid with food and drink to take back to wherever we were living at the time!

Back then some products that can now be bought all over Uk were only available in Scotland - wotsits, nougat wafers, certain pick n mix sweets...

And some we now can’t even get in Scotland - creamola foam is the main one

Square sausage is a “log” that’s then sliced, no casing, you can buy either as a smallish log or ready sliced. But to clarify it’s not ordinary sausage meat, it’s flavoured with rusk and spices and again you’ll find there are different recipes in different parts of Scotland, different butchers have their own recipes.