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?

Sausages, fried egg, chips and beans with a couple of slices of buttered white bread. Absolutely no nutrition, far too many carbs, myocardial infarction on plate and would never expect someone else to eat it but sometimes, you just cannot beat it.

Im eating it now, my own bolognese. I make it with a jar - smooth one - as I hate too many textures 🥴 and throw a handful of frozen peas and corn. Would never ever serve it and can do a decent from scratch version for guests that I will eat for appearance sake.

Its just easy comfort food for me

Cheese and "onion" pie made by mixing grated cheese with packaged stuffing mix and adding booking water. Envelop in pastry. I love it!

[quote Exhausted4ever]@Aroundtheworldin80moves full guests. Family guests would get served it. That sounds like a good idea especially for camping

@Wendyhause I'd serve it too!

@4amWitchingHour doesn't actually sound bad. Do you add soya sauce?[/quote]
I don't, but that would be a good addition!! Lots of black pepper though 😋

Right. My time to shine.

Lambs heart. It is DELICIOUS.

Poached eggs, tinned spaghetti and mashed potatoes. I suspect the only meal my dad could cook when I was a child as we only had it on the odd occasion my Mum wasn't around to cook "proper food"

Tinned meatballs, instant noodles and if I feel like it, bread and butter.

Pilchard toasties.

The 3 bread slice layered fish finger and hash brown sandwich.

@Noornie

It’s grim I can accept but something from my childhood I remember my mum making and now it’s real comfort food for me!

Tinned new potatoes, sliced up and in a frying pan. Add anything you have around, best combo is sliced hot dog sausages, onions, and peppers and fry the whole lot up together. Add a huge handful of cheese and mix it all up so it’s all a cheesy mess and serve.

It looks awful, it won’t win any taste awards but oh my god I love it

Thats a hash and its soooo good!! Bit of worcestershire sauce too. Yum.

@Lurkingforawhile what with no pasta?

@buttcrackmcheese, as long as its not oven chips I'd be happy with that

@Etinox oh I'd give that a go

@Poppins17 that's penacality isn't it? I've not had it in years but it's nice.

@NoIDontWatchLoveIsland I've never had spam but I love bacon grill, gotta be white bread and butter and Ketchup for sure

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.

In the first weeks of lockdown when it was impossible to get a shopping delivery, and when you did you never knew what would actually be in it I invented sausage and egg stir fry which is now a household favourite but I'd never serve it to anyone else

Fry sausages and cut into chunks
Stirfry whatever veg you can find
Add loads of chilli and soy sauce
Mix sausages back in
Top each serving with a poached egg

Food. Of. The. Gods.

Choccie digestive with cream cheese is a dessert at home, not for guests. All for me

Buttery parsley sauce, peas and lots of buttered white bread...😊😊😊

Not embarrassed no, but when guests come I like food to be a bit indulgent.
So while I may eat poached eggs or cheese on toast sometimes, I wouldn't serve that to guests- it's too ordinary.
Even outside covid times we don't entertain very much, so when we do see family or friends it's good to have something special.

Much of what we eat isn't exactly guest-worthy, it's usually basic fuel for filling 4 hungry adults. If people are coming for dinner, I'd make a whole lot more effort.

endlesswicker

Exactly.

I imaging much of what my guests eat in their own homes is pretty ordinary too.
But when we get together it is a cause for a little celebration- a glass of wine, some good food.
Serving spam and mash ( however comforting and fitting the bill wearing a onsie watching Netflix) doesn;t really lift the spirits at a gathering.

@Noornie

It’s grim I can accept but something from my childhood I remember my mum making and now it’s real comfort food for me!

Tinned new potatoes, sliced up and in a frying pan. Add anything you have around, best combo is sliced hot dog sausages, onions, and peppers and fry the whole lot up together. Add a huge handful of cheese and mix it all up so it’s all a cheesy mess and serve.

It looks awful, it won’t win any taste awards but oh my god I love it

Sounds as bad as my casserole, so I'm assuming it's lush

Off limits for me at the moment because I'm trying to lose weight and they're full of processed stuff, but:

cold baked beans eaten straight from the tin
instant (powdered - must be powder, not flakes) mashed potato on its own.

@ViciousJackdaw sounds amazing! I love it with bacon instead of sausages too

@110APiccadilly that's quite a combo!

@pepsicolagirl reminds me of the time I was given super noodles, tinned hotdogs and beans as a kid. So random lol

Spaghetti omelette, a bit like Spanish omelette except with left over spaghetti instead of potato.

Omelette and kim chi sandwich. Two slices of brown bread, thin omelette (two egg) and a generous helping of kim chi. To be eaten leaning forward over the plate because kim chi is slippery.

@Peanutbutterfingers sounds odd but not bad

@7catsisnotenough just sauce peas and bread?

@Serin

Sliced potatoes, layered with onion and bacon and cooked in the oven for a good 90mins. Serve with bread and proper butter. Heaven.

Add a cheesy creamy sauce and you’ve got tartiflette, which is French and therefore more or less posh by default!

Yesterday I wasn’t feeling well so had my ultimate comfort food - mash with peas mixed in. If left to his own devices, DP’s idea of cooking is a bowl of rice, lentils and broccoli with no kind of sauce/seasoning which I wouldn’t let him serve to guests!

Frozen breaded fish fillets, oven chips, peas and ketchup. So easy and yum yum !

A very common Saturday night dinner in our house is Fajitas. Tortillas, chicken cooked in paprika, ditto vegan quorn for teen, fried red onions and peppers, salad, pack of Tesco tex mex dips and line segments for squeezing. Everyone can have the bits they want.

In summer when we could have people over we had some friends for dinner and my husband was aghast I was doing fajitas - something we have every other week. But the lady is veggie, they love a bit of spice and our kids were eating with us so it was perfect. As a concession I did make fresh guacamole and salsa haha.

I have 2, my sister will recognise both of these - Hi sis!! xxx

My favourite meal to cook as a teenager and still have for comfort food sometimes is pasta, sweetcorn, tuna with heinz salad cream and lots of cheese melted in! and my mum used to make white cabbage, onion and carrot boiled together with cheese slices on top when we were short of money, we loved it and didnt realise it was because things were tight!

This is my favourite meal in the world!

@Arthien just about to say the same...make it with reblochen cheese and serve with salad and fresh bread...lived in France for a while and I love it!