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?

@hansgrueber

My Grandma used to make those too. Delicious with tinned plum tomatoes or fried eggs.

Ooh what a thread.

Cheap tinned sardines in tomato sauce fried with onion, a bit of chipotle paste mixed in. Served on buttered toast. Love it!

Spam, egg and chips .

Actually, thinking about it, MOST of the meals I make for myself I would not serve to company. Ever. But remember, I am elderly, I live alone (not counting the cat, who SERIOUSLY counts, but doesn't require that I cook for her), so I tend to go for quick and easy. Probably the most "GOOD GRIEF, YOU DO THAT?" meal is...boil a package of ramen noodles without seasoning packet while heating a couple of tablespoons of jarred spaghetti sauce in the microwave and toasting a piece of bread with butter and garlic sauce in the oven. Entire meal ready in about 3 minutes. AND just enough for one person.

That said, I'm quite capable of "cooking for company" when the occasion arises.

@Mamanyt

Actually, thinking about it, MOST of the meals I make for myself I would not serve to company. Ever. But remember, I am elderly, I live alone (not counting the cat, who SERIOUSLY counts, but doesn't require that I cook for her), so I tend to go for quick and easy. Probably the most "GOOD GRIEF, YOU DO THAT?" meal is...boil a package of ramen noodles without seasoning packet while heating a couple of tablespoons of jarred spaghetti sauce in the microwave and toasting a piece of bread with butter and garlic sauce in the oven. Entire meal ready in about 3 minutes. AND just enough for one person.

That said, I'm quite capable of "cooking for company" when the occasion arises.

CRUD! Garlic SALT, not sauce! I do my best proof-reading immediately after hitting "send."

What’s interesting about this thread is the level of effort put into creating your own personal dishes. Not everyone reaches for the ready meal as is so often assumed. I’m not sure there’s a ready meal which would hit the spot the way most of these concoctions do though!

A jacket potato and lots of butter
Baked beans with a generous portion of grated cheese on top
Coleslaw

Some of these sound amazing, I’ve just eaten my lunch (beans on toast if anyone’s interested?) and now I am hungry again, I am interested in how people come up with these concoctions!. Mine would be pasta with loads of butter and grated cheese which seems boring in comparison to some of yours.