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?

Birds eye bbq chicken served with chicken super noodles (got served it at a friends house as a kid and I’ve loved it ever since)

Richmond sausages, mash potato, frozen Yorkshire puddings, instant gravy and tinned green beans.

Chicken super noodles on toast topped with grated cheese

Pasta, cheese sauce - made with a packet of Coleman’s dried cheese sauce powder and milk, and lots of smoked bacon.

Lloyd grossman curry sauce (either Thai green curry or balti) with chicken, with a shit ton of frozen spinach thrown in just before serving.

Pasta, cheese and bacon. No sauce, just plain. Delicious with the cheese melted over it all. Has to be a nice strong cheddar too.

Me and DP love it, perfect comfort food, but wouldn’t ever serve it to guests.

Mature cheddar Cheese and chilli chutney on white bread butter the bread on the outside then fry it in a hot pan! Best Saturday lunch Ever!

@Serin

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

Ooh, food of my childhood, loaded with white pepper and simply called ‘ bacon onion and potato’ Doesn’t the house smell so good when it’s cooking?

I'm no longer a flesh eater but my God Cornedbeef pie.

Monday night chicken risotto. It's not proper risotto, it's easy-cook rice, fried onion, little shreds of the chicken you pick off the carcass (carcase?) of a roast chicken when there's hardly any left, handfuls of frozen cubes veg mix (carrot, peas and sweet corn) boiled up with just enough stock made with two stock cubes until all the stock is absorbed, then served with lots of soy sauce. Brilliant.

@Etinox , I think Philadelphia on dark chocolate digestives needs to go public.

Tinned beans & sausage with a slice of edam cheese & salad cream....packet 'pasta n sauce'....

Penne pasta cooked and then with a tin of chicken soup poured over and salt and black pepper and all mixed in - disgusting but so satisfying

2 eggs in a mug microwaved with butter salt and pepper mixed in - chucky egg of dreams, would never serve anyone except my kid microwaved egg

I love lambs kidneys, but would never serve offal to anyone - not through embarrassment but because so many people don't like it (or don't like the thought of it).

This! I also love liver and sweetbreads.

Chicken super noodles with mini cheddars on top

Sweet potato and red lentil coconut curry - it just turns to mush with rice but a real comfort food.

@Serin
"Sliced potatoes, layered with onion and bacon and cooked in the oven for a good 90mins. Serve with bread and proper butter. Heaven."
Do you mean boiled bacon or rashers of bacon?
Do you add any sort of sauce or liquid ... otherwise will it not burn to a crisp?

Leftover roast or boiled potatoes sliced and fried on the pan, served with grilled pudding and a fried egg. Food of the gods whether lunch or dinner.

Cheats dinner when I used to have nights on my own (then DD realised it and stole them, then DH realised it and loved it....so I don't eat it anymore)....M&S Welsh Rarebit or similar "baked cheese with some booze in a terracotta pot", which I serve with part baked bread rolls I cook at the same time, and chopped spring onions scattered over the top if I am bothered (not often TBH - but DH and DD both prefer with it).

Lamb shanks - that is a special treat just for DH and I (or me alone....mmmmm). Falling off the bone and being able to eat straight from the bone....DM would NOT approve. (neanderthal...)

There's probably more, I just can't think of them now

Scrambled eggs, lightly salted mashed avocado and Tesco hot and spicy chicken fillets. Taste sensation.

Yes to sausage eggs chips and beans! Also pasta mixed with chili pesto, tinned tuna, olives, sweetcorn and loads of cheddar grated on top then a generous sprinkle of black pepper. Cheese on toast with a thin layer of tomato and chilli chutney spread on top after cooking. Pizzas made with tortilla wraps and anything we have on hand to top them with

All the time. I’m lazy & no good cook but I like things that taste fresh or sort of healthy, so for myself I eat a lot of pimped-up microwaved ‘meals’ I wouldn’t serve to any guest. Stuff like sliced up courgette & tomatoes microwaved with butter, then add one of those packets of microwave rice / mixed grains, cooked chicken or tin of micro warmed up butterbeans, add olive oil & vinegar... microwaved vegetable & rice sloppy warm salad? Or, fave cheat - one of those M&S little side dishes of ratatouille, nuke for 2 mins, use scissors to ‘chop’ the veggies up smaller, add garlic granules & cayenne, stir... crack 2 eggs in, stir the whites in a bit, couple more mins in the microwave until the whites are done - cheat’s very quick shakshuka! Bit of pitta & tada, it’s no-brain Sunday brunch. Eat out of plastic container it came in. Too studenty for real guests, but pretty yum.

@Missdotty

Serin...I am sure yours is an Irish dish called pernaculty

It’s a Geordie dish called Panackalty. Corned beef, sliced onion and sliced potato with a pint of oxo and baked in the oven. Best served with bread and butter

@Serin Yes, yes, yes!!! Tatws rost we call that where I come from! Heaven on a plate

Rice (over)cooked with onions, garlic and cauliflower all in the one pot, with a tin of butterbeans thrown in at the last minute, then the whole thing liberally dosed in soy sauce.

Spam fritters, homemade chips and mushy peas.....
Yum

Sausage / burger surprise.
An old family dish from me yoof.
Burgers, sausages, veg stock, onions and cheese all layered like boulangere potatoes - but with random plomps of sausage and burger.
Bread and butter to be served on the side.
I absolutely love it and so do my dc but I wouldn’t give it to anyone else.

I love this thread. I eat all sorts of ‘private’ stuff that I’d never expect the people I live with, let alone guests, to eat.

Currently on heavy rotation is beans on heavily buttered toast with a massive dollop of cottage cheese plus lashings of Worcestershire sauce.

When I was in my 20s and working all hours for shit money my go-to dinner when I finally got home was a bowl of instant couscous with a tin of tuna and mango chutney. Don’t think I could stomach that now!

My Sunday roast. Not my actual roast, as I've been told it's pretty good, I mean the way I serve myself when not in polite company - 10% meat 10% potatoes 20% veg and the rest is just gravy. Proper, thick, wallpaper paste gravy. With yorkies and thick, white, buttered bread on the side. I'd actually just have a bowl of gravy if I didn't have to set a good example to the children....

My other is my pasta in cheese sauce. I use Colemans white sauce base instead of flour, half a block of mature white cheese, drop of milk and mix it in with some penne. Whole garlic bread on the side. It's delicious, proper home comfort cheesy goodness, but definitely not a sensible idea for a group meal. The gas effects alone would be a nightmare .

Super noodles (curry or chicken) cooked with peas stirred through, served on a pile of chunky chips and topped with an enormous pile of cheese. Plenty of tomato sauce on the side too.