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?

Pork pie, chips and mushy peas.
or

Bubble and squeak with a fried egg (or two).
or
Fried egg and black pudding (with toast if feeling decadent!)

White sliced bread with a couple of burger cheese slices and BBQ sauce - only thing I could eat when I was pregnant and it’s still my ultimate comfort food

Scrambled eggs with chopped spring onion tops, shredded ham and grated cheese stirred in during cooking, served on a slice of very buttery wholemeal bread.

My secret vice (birthdays only) is a ham and crisp sandwich made with cheap white sliced bread.

Not so much of a meal as a snack, but Frazzles dipped in sour cream and chive dip. Mmmmm.

Buttery toast with marmite, beans and cheese on top

I YouTubed the Marmite spaghetti video- making today! She tops with parmesan though, would that be super salty!?

Would love to see some pics of some of these. The cheats fish pie, potato gratin, fish pie mix, genius!

@Mamanyt I've never associated them with liver. The closest I can think of them as is a burger only round, as in a ball rather than a disc. No idea what goes into them but the same is true of sausages and cheap burgers.

@GrannyWeatherwaxsHatpin that could be a meal if you eat enough of it!! Very British nachos perhaps!

@Etinox

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

Re: South London chicken - Morley's, Favourite, Dixy's?

Pasta with cheapest jar sauce, tinned pineapple and a load of cheese.
Hangover from student days, but it has hit the spot in lockdown.

Also my latest food find is this recipe going around on social media....roast cherry tomatoes, feta, olive oil, basil for 20 mins, mush it all up and served with spaghetti.

What type of feta do you use for the social media feta pasta?? I’m interested but don’t eat feta regularly so wasn’t sure what to get! Love the honesty here and so interesting to see what people turn to for comfort.

Etinox

Stovies! Respect.

@ MrWendel not a branded chicken shop
In true Mumsnet style I support my local independent store.

@NicelySpicy

What type of feta do you use for the social media feta pasta?? I’m interested but don’t eat feta regularly so wasn’t sure what to get! Love the honesty here and so interesting to see what people turn to for comfort.

I use danish feta but I would say a creamy soft type is better than the hard crumbly type.

Thanks for the tip! heads off jauntily to shop online

Chicken potato chip sandwich made on buttered cheap white bread.

Cheese and onion Or cheese and tinned spaghetti jaffles. (With a CB iron that seeks the sides all crispy

Never add fresh tomato as it turns into molten lava.

Delicious

@NicelySpicy lots of variations on social media but the basic one is my fav...

Thanks @DamnitImTired! I did wonder how they got to that creamy sauce using a very crumbly cheese. I assume it’s pretty high calorie so I might need to wait until I’ve come off my diet....then again, maybe I won’t, as food is one of the only enjoyable things around at the moment

@DamnitImTired
Which supermarket has Danish Feta? Not Tesco or Sainsbury’s - from my searches anyway...

Fish head stew.

Link for the curious.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_head_casserole

Sausage Glug (the sound it makes as it boils)
Sliced Sausage boiled in gravy on the stove with mixed frozen veg added.
Served with mashed spud or pumpkin, silverbeet and potato mashed together with butter and milk.

@Symbion

So many. Kedgeree because my family loves smoked haddock but lots don't.

Nachos - dinner shouldn't really consist of a massive bag of crisps should it? But it's so easy and so easy to recreate a pub meal for a fraction of the cost.

You could serve me all the kedgeree you want, I love smoked haddock!!!

@PyjamaFan

My OH makes a concoction of baked beans, a tin of tuna, raisins and curry powder all cooked together.

I always decline.

I, on the other hand, love leftover mashed potato sandwiches. Especially if the potato is warmed through so the butter in the bread melts a bit.

I remember my mother mixing left--over mashed potato with flour and frying it in patties, called potato cakes, they were lovely.

Bacon and onion suet pudding wrapped in a cloth and simmered for a few hours 😋 or faggots love them both but wouldn't feed them to anyone coming for dinner. It's making my mouth water reading this post!! I'm going to try some of these