what was your mums SNAZZIEST recipe when you were little

[FluffyMummy123]

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Sorry but I just have to say

Cremola Foam .

My mum only ever cooked mince for savoury or burnt cake and custard for pudding. It wasn't lack of money, it was just that is all her and my dad like to eat. I never ate a chop until I left home.

My mum used to make ice cream from a packet mix. It made the alternative of barely-defrosted pots of raspberry ripple mousse from KwikSave seem almost appetising...

Anyone remember the Dairy Book of Home Management? - I think it was pretty much compulsory to purchase it off your milkman at some point in the late 70s.

I remember the first time my mum cooked spag bol she served it with the pasta and potatos , cabbage and carrots ! all meals accompanied by spuds and 2 veg come what may!

That reminds me my gran use to make spag bol, she would cube stuff like parsnips, swede and carrots and add to the mince along with peas. I always thought it should of been called spaghetti and savoury mince. Oh and fyi it tasted awful. Tomatoey parsnip = yuck.

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Great thread.

My mum made most of these recipes plus things like tournedos rossini - layer of thick bread, layer of pate topped with a steak and thick sauce which set if you didn't eat it quickly. Pure heart attack material.

Also coq au vin invariably followed by 'hilarious' smutty joke.

My maternal grandmother was a fantastic cook, especially puddings but my other grandmother was terrible. Pudding was always bright pink blancmange and Sunday dinner was beef cooked for hours like a piece of leather, all veg mashed and piled up like a mountain. It was like baby food for adults.

Daisymoo - loved Queen of Puddings - my grandmother used to make that!

to this day if my mom decides to be 'snazzy' with salad - what does she do? Drizzle some balsamic and olive oil? Shave some parmesan?
No she boils an egg (with obligitary grey ring!) chops in half, dollops mayo on top and ever so lovingly sprinkles paprika on top!!! How 70's is that? (I must confess I do like it tho!!)

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chrissnow, my mum still does that and I like it too. She can't get her head round balsamic - she tried once but pouring half a bottle on a salad didn't really have the desired effect.

I still have minor cravings for some of the 70's stuff and DH is disgusted that I still have bananas and custard from time to time, with M&S custard.

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my mom made custard once. Without vanilla! so pretty much hot, eggy milk. (Is that a form you'd like eggs in Cod? 'cus it was not nice on our spotted dick!!).
It was back to Birds after that!!!
Oh and my DH did not get that I do my bananas and custard with COLD custard!! Although now he concurs it is far nicer.

My mum used to make a stew of white cabbage peppercorns and skirt of lamb. It was delicious. Scandinavian I think.

Her special dinnerparty starter was celery soup which I used to love. I am now married to a celery phobe though so I can't make it at home. Our house was a Delia house.

iCod, sorry but it's got to be M&S custard, it's the pimped up version

Cornflake pudding didn't involve jam. I think it might have been white and moussey under the cornflakes. And made in an obligatory mould.

DD2 and I have prawns in Marie Rose sauce with avocado for lunch almost every week.

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We used to have a cornflake pudding at school. apple sauce, topped with cornflakes and some very artificial cream stuff.

We never had artificial cream. Was it good?

We had 'real' food so naturally I spent my youth longing for Vesta curries, Pot Noodles and those savoury pancake things.

No it was most definately not good!!! Didn't taste remotely like cream. (It may even have been shaving foam!!) I thought we had 'real' food, but this thread has jogged my subconcious into remembering the huge amounts of homepride jars in our cupboard!!! I did long for savoury pancakes a girl whose house I went to for tea used to have them and I remember thinking how 'posh' they were LOL. I also yearned for a soda stream. I remember going somewhere for tea once and being given a chip buttie (which I had never ever had!!) I asked for a knife and fork to eat it and they were killing themselves laughing at me. I then burst into tears when melted butter ran down my fingers. The poor buggers had to ring my mom to fetch me home!!! She still won't allow anyone to assemble a chip buttie under her roof!! (and goodness help you if you ever ask for ketchup!!)

My gran's idea of salad:
Iceberb lettuce.
Sliced cucumber
Sliced tomato
Sald cream

That's it.

Remember when the pizza delivery shop came to town (exotic and new in 80s Devon). Remember gran ordering the 'speciality' pizza, sat there confused eating it with a knife and fork out of the polystyrene box it came in. Remember the topping was tomato,cheese, ham and peach. Peach!

mousaka - my mum still make s a lovely mousaka. I think she had a 100 things to do with mince book.

Gammon and cooked pineapple was a weekly meal for us too.

Chocolate swiss roll in custard. Yum. I might have to disclose that pleasure to my DDs

Has anyone mentioned those little pots of mousse that came from the freezer section of the supermarket? You'd get about 10 in a long bag. Were they called mousse supremes or something? They were very unmousse-like thinking back, more like ice-cream. My brother and I loved the mint and chocolate ones.

There was also an ice cream sauce called Magic or something which hardened on top of your ice cream. It had to be a very special occasion for us to have that.

My Mum's 1970s salad: a lettuce leaf, a sliced tomato, and half a boiled egg with a blob of mayo and sprinkled with paprika. No dressing, nothing. It was ABSOLUTELY RANK!

And she made the same hopeless curry with mince and curry powder, but her mystery ingredient was Branston pickle. Why?

And she had a hostess trolley.

Shergar - at least you had some mayo - we had salad cream!

Not jealous of you curry with branston though.

Bloody hell, I have dished up this lot many times, I thought they loved it, perhaps not!!!! I am going to phone them up