To ask if you eat meals you'd never feed to guests but love?

[Exhausted4ever]

So, I adore this meal which is (very) broadly speaking a sausage cassorole, but is just sliced cooked Sausages and baked beans, mixed with gravy topped with sliced boiled potatoes with a bit of thicker gravy on top of them and cooked in thr oven for at least half an hour. It's soooooo good, proper comfort food. But I would never serve it to guests! Do you eat things you'd be too embarrassed to serve to guests but really like it yourself?

Pasta, sardines and Ghanaian shitto or gari, sardines and shitto

Pot noodles. Spam. Yum

Oh, oh, pizza waffles 😂 waffle, tomato sauce, herbs, pepperoni, cheese, grill. Incredible. Or hash browns with cheese on and brown sauce. Damn.

Thank you, I’ve just got some really lovely menu ideas from this - for us at home, although I would share (some of) them with select family members.

I am so trying a lot of these recipes.

Pasta a la Dainville......named after the French exchange family I stayed with who first served it to me....pasta, grated cheese and ketchup!
And mince and beans which my Mum used to make.....so easy and comforting....literally onion and minced beef fried, add a tin of baked beans, devour with a packet of crisps! .....yum

Fried cabbage sandwich. I think it's a common street food in Asia, my friend taught me the recipe.

You shred quarter of a white cabbage with a veg peeler, add some thin sliced onion and carrot, mix in an egg, add salt and pepper, and fry it in butter moulding into a vague slice of bread shape. If you can hold off turning it till the egg is properly cooked it holds together well. Then eat it between two slices of toast or fried bread. Very satisfying and the only way I'd ever eat so much cabbage in one go.

@Leafwarbler

Cheese in milk. Heat a tasty cheddar in milk until the cheese goes gooey (don't let milk boil). Hot buttered toast for dipping. Bliss.

My Nan used to do this! It made my Mum retch but I loved it!

“Guests”??

What the fuck are they?

Rice and rice sauce is a favourite of my kids. Micro rice with a can of condensed mushroom soup. Might throw some peas in if I’m feeling fancy.
Fresh egg mayo sandwiches, so the egg is still warm, on thick white bread with some paprika in it.

Egg noodles in a can of chicken soup

A whole large boiled onion swimming in homemade cheese sauce.

Curry super noodles and sausages
Chips, peas and crispy pancakes
Golden rice (from a packet) and fish fingers
Egg in a cup (combine a softly boiled egg, a slice of white bread and butter, salt and pepper in a cup, mix and eat)
Savoury mince, beans and mash

Marmite pasta: boil pasta, drain as add a couple of tablespoons of marmite, stir till it coats the pasta and then add a mound of grated cheddar and stir til it melts. Amazing! But not socially acceptable really.

I really want egg and chips now.

OP I want to make your sausage dish right now.

But to answer the question:

• Heinz tinned spaghetti with lots of cheese grated into it and white bread with real butter to mop up the sauce. (Actually, scratch the above, I want to make that right now. )
• KP Skips as a sandwich filling.
• A fried egg on a piece of fried bread, but that's banned while I'm trying to lose weight. Sadly.
• Ready-made cheesy mash in a bowl on its own.
• Also used to really love Super Noodles at one time, though not so much these days.

@sudename I think you might be my long lost twin

Most of our meals are a bit like that. Everyone clears their plates every single day but I’m not sure what most of our meals are called! Like my bolognese is probably too vegetably for most, as is my chilli, curry, shepherds pie etc. I cook virtually everything from scratch and put beans/pulses in almost everything to bulk it out. I think any guests would be a bit taken aback. All of your crazy made up meals sound delicious though. I’d be a guest at any of your houses!

I can literally eat anything but a particular favourite is leftover rice (I can only cook the amount for 80 people it seems) with leftover veg (same issue) covered with the liquid from either a jar of pickles/rollmops/sauerkraut and then a soft boiled egg on top. I wouldn’t give this to the family even. It’s just mine. Or instant mash with
Mustard stirred through with beans and a fried egg on top. Yum

This is one of best food threads I have taken lots of screen shots for future meals

We have just had corned beef hash with frozen Yorkshire's. Utterly gorgeous and satisfying but probably wouldn't serve it to a guest!

I’m American (moved to UK in my 20s), so my favourite comfort meals are American classics my grandma used to make. Proper cheesy macaroni cheese with bacon bits on top, loaded nachos but made with America nacho cheese sauce which , incidentally, doesn’t have much cheese in it. Sloppy joes with loads of toppings. Stuff that tastes good but doesn’t look ‘pretty’ enough to serve at a dinner party. I have made Mac n cheese a few times but make it fancier if I’m having company!

@TheFiend

I’m American (moved to UK in my 20s), so my favourite comfort meals are American classics my grandma used to make. Proper cheesy macaroni cheese with bacon bits on top, loaded nachos but made with America nacho cheese sauce which , incidentally, doesn’t have much cheese in it. Sloppy joes with loads of toppings. Stuff that tastes good but doesn’t look ‘pretty’ enough to serve at a dinner party. I have made Mac n cheese a few times but make it fancier if I’m having company!

Oh I use Mac n cheese out of a box, just add extra cheese and bacon bits to it so it’s not sophisticated at all 😂

Dirty Pot noodle sandwich
Ham salad and cheese and onion crisps sandwich
Stir fry rice and chicken swimming in Worcester sauce
Honey mustard sausages simply because no one is worth sharing it with. People can just fuck off from that one.

@Etinox

Corned beef hash, stovies, south london chicken and chips from a box, Philadelphia on dark chocolate digestives are private foods. 🤦🏻‍♀️😳

Stovies! Nothing will ever compare to my granny’s stovies ❤️