To think that simple foods are often forgotten and underrated.

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I don't really eat much sweet stuff but I really fancied something tonight, so I made some pancakes. Took about 15 mins, so quick and cheap. We had them with lemon and sugar....mmmm
Nothing fancy ....but delicious!

What is your simple and underrated favorite?

Threads on here about filling up teenage boys: I'm the only one that ever says butter on bread & a glass of milk. <shrug>

I made banana muffins yesterday, jackets spuds ryvita and soft cheese crisps sandwiches hobnobs dairylea sandwich all on cheapest white bread delicious

Cheese or lemon souffle - so simple but so delicious.

Crisp sandwich - ready salted with Warburton's white and butter.
Egg and chips
Toasted Soreen with butter

You really can't beat a jacket potato with beans and cheese or a fried egg butty with lots of butter and salt

Or a big bowl of vegetable soup with some nice crusty bread

I love semolina with a blob of jam, haven’t had it for decades though

Dippy egg and soldiers
Cheese on toast
Tinned tomatoes with white onion on toast
Toast and Marmite
Beans on toast with loads of Worcestershire sauce
Pasta with salt, pepper and butter
Jacket potato with butter & cheese
cheese & onion sandwich with lots of salt and pepper!

There’s a few common themes there!

Cucumber sandwiches

I love cucumbers. People always make fun as theyre plain and tastless apparently. 😑

Yes I agree. Fried eggs and home made chips, jacket potato with cheese and beans, chip butty, cheese and pickle sandwich with real butter on, baked beans on toast, sausage mash and peas with gravy. If I didn't have kids and have to set a good example and make them eat veg these are the sort of meals I would eat when I got in from work, I hate cooking with a passion but love eating.

A cup of beans, with a sausage in it. You can use the sausage to scoop the beans oot.

Pancakes are amazing and so cheap! Also bsked spuds and beans on toast. Best meals ever.

Sausage and mash. Pork sausages, not beef or chicken or plant substitute. . Freshly made mash, not too creamed, a wee bit floury in texture, with a good dab of butter.

Cheese and tomato omelette sandwich

And for any Americans reading, the pancakes mentioned by OP are "crepes" not the thicker US breakfast pancakes; thin and delicate and piping hot and oh my, the lemon juice and sugar . . .

Agreed!

We had poached eggs on toast for lunch today. Lovely fresh eggs laid by our own hens, wholemeal bread and real butter. Doesn't get much better!

I eat beans on toast twice a week

my favourite, sometimes with a couple of fried eggs and cheese

Ham egg and chips

Haha, I eat this religiously every morning for breakfast with a slice of buttered toast.

Rare to have it but really good deli bread and loads of butter.

Wash your sister sauce 🤣

Spaghetti. French salted butter (with the lumps of salt in it). Freshly milled black pepper. Two squished garlic cloves and a shake of lemon juice. Five minutes and you’re done.

grated Parmesan on top if I can be arsed.

Toast, real butter, and marmite

Agree with jacket potato + cheese. Also good with tuna and corn.

Love scrambled eggs or fried eggs - on toast or in a morning roll.

Also:

• tattie scones/ potato cakes
• colcannon with butter
• tuna mayo toastie with cheese and sweet corn
• leek and potato soup
• cornbread
• egg and cress sandwiches
• tomato and mozzarella with basil and balsamic vinegar
• really nice fresh veggies like tomatoes and cucumbers, similarly summer fruit like raspberries, strawberries, cherries
• apples picked off the tree
• Toast and peanut butter, maybe with raspberry jam

Poached cod with butter melting…

Soup with a cheese scone
toasted sandwiches with filling of choice
boiled eggs with soldiers
did you know you can freeze English pancake batter?