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?

Fish fingers or a veggie burger with beans.

One time I was at a friend's for dinner and she gave me a plate of cooked cabbage! I never said anything, just ate it up!

Smash with chopped frankfurters and peas all mixed together and a big dollop of ketchup

Literally just a massive plate of warm couscous with salt, pepper, garlic, lemon and butter mixed through it.

If I'm feeling really fancy I'll chop some cucumber and feta in it.

Really really fancy = dollop of tuna mayo on top.

@actiongirl1978

Chickpea curry - a tin of chopped Tom's, a tin of chickpeas, a tin of tuna, three bits of frozen spinach, curry powder. Simmer. Spoon into mouth whilst mindlessly watching TV.

This sounds nice!

@wishes1111

Pasta with nothing but butter and salt 🤦🏻‍♀️ the shell type is my fave.

Oh this reminds me I used to eat shell pasta with butter and I'd fry up some veggie haggis and then mix that through it. Loved that.

@FortunesFave

Yeah I've got to say I'd bork at being served offal.

Bork?? You mean balk? As in "to hesitate to do something" Or as some MNrs say "Boke" meaning to heave a bit of sick up?

You probably mean baulk. The op might have meant boak.

Chopped up sausages and a big dollop of marmalade - to dunk them in, sometimes with bread and butter..yum

Salad Cream and sprouts or cabbage, in fact love salad cream with anything.

I also like the taste of salad cream mixed with baked beans and mash, with loads of butter.

One of my past favourites was Beef Risotto which was a vespa ready meal, it came dried and you had to cook the rice in loads of butter and then add the beef, it was a unique taste I havent had since, loved it

@EmbarrassingAdmissions

Philadelphia on dark chocolate digestives are private foods.

Sounds like a very convenient and personal portion of a rearranged chocolate cheesecake.

We have lots of meals unfit for guests.

Some are variations of ‘pap’ usually involving tinned tomatoes, veg in a tray in the oven for a while, some parika, then served on some carb or other. Usually some pap left over for lunch next day.
Then we have ‘muck’. Frankfurter muck is tinned potatoes with onions, frankfurters (obv) tinned sweetcorn & frozen peas.
Chicken muck is thighs, sliced onions, sliced mushrooms, stock cube. All put in a Pyrex as they are & boiled then served with instant mash. Or rice & a big knob of butter.

Posh chocolates. I'm not sharing those. They are for when everyone else is asleep and I'm having time stolen from my sleep watching TV with no one asking me things!

And cheap noodles with scrambled egg, cheese, black pepper and sesame oil. Sounds vile but its totally lovely

On a Friday we often have “brinner” - basically a full English at night. We love it but it is definitely not for guests. Similarly I often do pasta bakes for midweek - chicken or chorizo and veg - and I think guests would be appalled we are so studenty.

Since March and WFH I really like sausage rolls for lunch. With ketchup for me, Branson’s pickle for DP, heated up in the oven. I would never, ever have eaten these a year ago, and my friends would be horrified!

I make myself a proper comforting low brow tuna pasta. Just pasta, mayo, bit of cheese, red onion and tomatoes.

Also love pasta with butter and anchovies.

Also love punching a dominos anchovy, olive and pepperoni pizza through my face now and then.

..to be fair all of that sounds better than my cooking right now.

Fried red onion, handful of cooked peas, tone of tuna. Mix it together, add cooked pasta. Fry for another five minutes put grated cheddar on top, let it melt a bit and serve.

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

Fried spuds (left over plain boiled spuds, fried on a pan), fried onions & baked beans. Drizzle over ketchup & HP & salt.

Equally enraged by the boiled spuds post - but then I’m Irish and as stereotypical as it sounds spuds are my favourite part of any meal. 🤷🏼‍♀️ Lovely dry floury ones.

I also make an omelette with spaghetti. Half of my family is from Naples as they call it Pizza di macaroni. Cooked spaghetti, beaten eggs, lots of parmesan cheese and chopped chunks of salami with salt and lots of black pepper, cook it and flip it then cut into wedges. Delicious! My husband thinks it's strange and won't eat it but I love it. Salty and filling. I make it for my toddler without the salami and salt and she likes it too.

My favourite is cod in parsley sauce, frozen natch,

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You've been on the 90s magazine thread, haven't you, natch?

Crumpet pizzas! (Toast crumpets, put tomato purée on, put cheese on top and grill - in case anyone isn't familiar)

A can of Heinz tomato soup and a slice of cheese on toast

Choc chip shortbread- only takes 15 mins to make a tin of it

Heinz spaghetti hoops on toast with cheap sausages which have been cooked until very browned all over, with ketchup.

Jacket potato with tuna sweetcorn mayo (pref Hellman's for this). A new interpretation is to do the jacket potato as a hasselback one - thanks to another MN thread for the idea!

Basically kids food and btw I'm not sponsored by Heinz, but would be very happy to receive any vouchers from them !

Tuna, sweetcorn and chopped onion pasta, with a tin of Campbell's Cream of Mushroom soup and LOADS of black pepper is my go-to home alone meal (if I can be bothered!) I would never serve this to anyone else - particularly as I used to eat it with a couple of Findus Bacon flavour Crispy Pancakes!

@BetsyBigNose I'm trying that! Do they still do Findus pancakes!?

@Frazzledd I've just had a look, and they do! Minced Beef and Onion, Ham and Mozzarella, Tomato and Mozzarella and Mozzarella flavours - I'm not sure if I could deal with the disdain on DH's face if I was to bring them into the house though... Perhaps I'll wait till he next goes away for a few days and eat a whole box in his absence, then hide the evidence!

Ready salted crisps with primula cheese spread is heaven! That is more of an hourre deuvre (?spelling).
Meal prob spaghetti hoops, cut up hotdogs and grated cheese in the microwave for a couple of minutes with a couple of slices of warm buttered toast. Or a ham, cheese and spaghetti (tinned) toastie.
My kid is the queen of weird food combos, she dipped her strawberries in soft boiled egg and told me how delicious it was 🤢

@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?

If no ones already asked do you split 1 gravey into 2 and thicken one up or do you happen to have 2 gravies to hand?

Another offal lover here. When my sister and I get together, without the DPs, she'll always make a liver & bacon casserole with lots of gravy & bread to dip in. My own quick meal is rollmops with hot new potatoes. DP would never touch it but I love that combo and never for guests.
Thanks for the reminder of koshori, am making plans for lunch even now, yum yum

Lazy fish pie. 1 x supermarket potato gratin plus 1x supermarket fish pie mix. Serve with broccoli, peas or kale. Lovely!