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

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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?

This was my student staple minus the cheese. Thanks for the reminder, I haven’t had it for a few years, might have it tomorrow. Delicious!

Only just to say, this is interesting, and I can see why I am considered a fussy eater.

I'd probably be happier if I had more diverse tastes.

Homemade proper chips in a bowl with a tin if heinz vegetable soup poured over, s+v and buttered white bread

Supermarket double choc chip muffins microwaved for 45 seconds so the choc chips melt with packet birds custard

Brussel sprouts with butter and cheese.
Red cabbage, onion, apple cooked in a stock cube. Boil till soft drain water into frying pan and reduce till thick mix back into cabbage. Takes time but its bloody yummy.

Someone mentioned Salad cream dear god noooo 🤮🤢

May I say that, although we had a proper dinner, this thread inspired lunch: boiled rice with cheese and ketchup.

On this occasion I spurned the ketchup and opened a bottle of kimchi sauce that was a mere 4 years out of date. It was fantastic.

I make something I call 'dhal plus' - fry some coriander seeds, stir fry turkey mince & chopped leeks, stir in red split lentils and coconut milk with some flavourings (garlic powder, chilli, dried mint) and leave to simmer to a tasty mush. I love it but it's a mush - wouldn't serve it to anyone!!

Spaghetti pie.

Puff pastry base. Filling is a tin of short cut spaghetti (hoops will do in a pinch). Topped with lots of cheese and cooked in the oven until the top and bottom crisp up.

Food of the gods.

Damnit if you add peanut butter to the bacon and banana toastie you get the filthily delicious 'Elvis Special'.
And we all know how that turned out...

This is deeply outing, but a few of my favourites:

Breakfast pack (sausage, black pudding, square sausage) served with fried white bread
Boiled new potatoes smushed up in a bowl with loads (and I mean loads) of butter and Cheddar, microwaved for ages then topped with lashings of salt
Chicken pot noodle with a buttered crispy roll (for which to dip)
Chicken or curry Koka noodles served alongside Iceland/Farmfoods hot n spicy chicken strips
Roasted chicken breast, boil in the bag white rice, and liberal helpings of chicken Bisto gravy poured on top

@FreddieMercurysCat

Cooked pasta, tossed in a frying pan with beaten egg and crispy bacon pieces mixed in. God that’s my comfort food. Oh and pot noodle sandwiches.

So pasta carbonara then...I would add parmesan, maybe you have to to make it carbonara? And yes, yummy and so easy to have the ingredients there and only takes as long as the pasta does to cook

Chips, doused in salt n vinegar, then topped with baked beans.

The shame . I only very rarely make this for my lunch when I am HOME ALONE... !

But its the vinegary chips made slightly soggy by the sweet sauce of the beans and the beans made slightly vinegary by the chips ...

Everything I make for myself
and most of what I make for family (zero plan, cook what's in fridge usually by stir fry) would never be served to guests

My world famous tuna curry! Chop and fry an onion, add a big spoonful or two of curry paste (I like pataks madras) a tin of tuna and a tin of chopped tomatoes. Delicious!

@CharlotteWeb

Mushroom soup rice from the recipe on Campbell's website.

Cream of chicken soup, add finely sliced cooked mushrooms and a large glug of white wine, it can be served on all occasions!

Campbells used to do an excellent cookbook for tarting up their soups or using them in some omiressive dishes. Maybe the website is the 21st C version.

I love Primula squeezy cheese on claggy white bread with smashed up kettle chips. Sheer joy and requires zero cooking. Not even DH knows about it though...

Thought of something else.
When no-one else is around, I love tuna sandwiches/toasties with brown sauce

@clare8allthepies

My world famous tuna curry! Chop and fry an onion, add a big spoonful or two of curry paste (I like pataks madras) a tin of tuna and a tin of chopped tomatoes. Delicious!

Oooh! Seeing as I love curry and my previous confession involved I may just have to try this one

involved tuna that should say

Am I the only one who is imagining some pearl-clutching going on as a certain type of MNer reads these delights? It has to be one of the most honest threads ever.

Egg in a cup (soft boiled egg chopped into a cup with lots of cubes of thickly buttered white bread, salt and white pepper)

Chicken livers fried up with onions and a slosh of sherry, bread and butter or toast and butter.

Yes yes yes to Brain's faggots and Fray Bentos pies.

Tin of chicken in white sauce either in an omelette or over very buttery rice.

Tinned salmon curry (fry onion, add curry powder pref Bolsts, fry, add tin of salmon, mix and inhale).

Sweetcorn straight out of the tin.

Fried corned beef with onions and cubes of potato.

Sweetbreads treated as the chicken livers above but more sherry.

I don't get to eat these often but love them all.

Not really a meal but prawn cocktail crisps in a sandwich covered in salad cream..😋

Eggy mash- boiled potatoes and an egg, mashed quickly (with a little butter and milk) to make sure the egg cooks in to the spuds.

Eggy prawns- 2 hard boiled eggs mashed together with mayo and a handful of prawns.

Yum.