What's your ''signature'' dish...?

[Polkadotfanatic]

...just being nosey really and also getting some ideas....

I'll start - if I am being quick and easy I do chicken parmigiana (chicken stuffed with cheese and ham and served with a light tomato base - easy peasy) veg et al

If I am trying to impress I will do a chicken or beef wellington (not really that impressive, but I feel like it is cause I make the pastry from scratch - honest gov!) :)

For pud I have mastered tiramisu, but thus far, that is all I have mastered lol

Let me in on your culinary secrets...

lasagne? with cottage cheese instead of cheese sauce for healthy version..
Yours sound much more impressive!

Otherwise, home-made bread I guess... I do an awesome Ploughmans lunch!

For everyday meals with the family lasagne/fish pie/lamb hotpot with dumplings/ chicken stew/ homemade fishcakes

For friends lamb shanks in ww sauce on pureed parsnip(google Gordon Ramsay recipe it's delish)
Thai curry made from scratch
Lamb from the Moro book

24 hr slow roast pork
Chestnut stuffed pork loin
Tarragon Chicken

Aubergine Parmigiana, which sounds like a vegetarian version of your "easy peasy" dish

The easier the food to cook, the more I enjoy it.

Love most things Italian and I make my own pasta/spaghetti.

I don't have a signature dish.... I tend to rummage, collect, throw together and serve..... Thus far, I've not made a dish that hasn't worked..... Either I'm talented or lucky.... I would choose the latter....

As for desserts, I love baking but I am tantamount to useless. Can't even make a basic sponge cake.... But it's great fun dancing and singing in my shoe box kitchen with my DD and making a huge mess and getting covered in flour and stuff!

MrsMuddyPuddles Could you post your Aubergine Parmigiana recipe please, I'll be your best friend! I got a craving for aubergine during my last 2 pregnancies and its never left me, (much to the family's disgust)

A goan curry (much like a vindaloo) made with all my own toasted and ground spices.

Or puttanesca.

Various chicken curries from Madhur Jaffrey
And an amaaazing chickpea dish, always complimented on it, sadly I can only wow people with it once (so never invite people back a second time)
A clafoutie from a recipe cut out of the Telegraph years ago, super easy and looks impressive

fish baked with ginger,garlic,onion/chilli and herbs.banana cake

Sketti Bolonase!

I think I make brilliant fairy cakes/butterfly cakes. I do it all by hand the old fashioned way. I also have just started to make pastry and scones again, just like my Mum taught me , again all by hand.
I don't have any signature main courses though.

cakeforbreakfast, heere is the recipe I use
www.veg-world.com/recipes/parmigiana.htm

I skip the salting but do press the slices, use part of a jar of passata abd sprinkle italian herbs over each tomato layer. Frying the aubergines takes forever, not sure why they think it's a 10 min recipe. Make sure they've gone translucent and are starting to brown or they wont be fully cooked (and will taste gross)

A roast.

Banoffee Pie

A bastardised version of Delia's Luxury Smoked fish pie (uses less smoked fish so you can eat it without having a coronary from the saltiness)

Unfortnately, is also basically her signature dish, and not sure I can compete.

I think mine is roast with homemade stuffing (especially chestnut at christmas)

and apple crumble or apple sponge (we have an apple tree in the garden so have to use em up!)

Gammon in the slow cooker with pureed mash, Spanish Chicken and same as Little - Sketti!

I do great risotto, favorite to impress is roasted butternut squash, roasted garlic, walnut and blue cheese risotto. Very very lush.

Polka dot if you are still here can you post your chicken parmigiana recipe??

I would say roast, I do great gravy.

My cakes are also pretty good if i say so myself

bacon sandwich.
the secret is the bread has to be really plasticky.

oh yes, you need good bacon and rubbish bread for a good bacon sandwich.

Pork stew, my mums curry recipe, cottage pie and chicken fried rice. (not all in one meal!)