what was your mums SNAZZIEST recipe when you were little

[FluffyMummy123]

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Homemade yoghurt. In a special thing like a big flask. It was RANK. mind you, that was in the days when yog meant over-sweet Ski stramb, peach melba or hazelnut only. I would prob find it palatable these days.
(perhaps not)

My mum had a couple of Elizabeth David's books and a Patience Gray one. I don't really remember them being used much.

Actually I do remember she used to make moussaka.

Homemade yogurt , not snazzy until she added umpteen spoons of sugar and a dash of green food colouring [wow]

It was curry in our house too, but the exotica was the "cymbals" - I think it was meant to be sambals, and she thought it was terribly terribly chic - banana slices, with yoghurt and coconut - all prepared around 24 hours in advance so you got that lovely brown sludge island effect.

She nearly laid an egg when the local fine fare started stocking mango chutney.

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Baked Alaska was the one that really impressed us!

We would beg and mither without mercy.

slouchy - my gran had a fanny craddock moment and made curry with a tin of homepride curry sauce, heinz mulligatwny soup and sultanas and bananas. I think the sultanas and banana turned it from her normally disgusting cooking to the devil's own food.

My gran was quite funny when she 'discovered' pasta. What seemed like an 8-foot long packet of spaghetti (wrapped in blue paper) and her own special bolognese sauce (god only knows what the hell was in that). Have a strong memory of gran trying to strong-arm the spaghetti into a cauldron sized pan, then giving up and snapping the spaghetti strands in rage.

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Mum didn't have the cookery year one but did have the bero one but.....

I have the cookery year and the bero book

i still like to put a few baked beans in my chilli

try it

*remembers hazlenut Ski yogurts..........ewwww

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My mother told me the other day that they felt that they really were very sophisicated when they served some grilled grapefruit dish

Freaks

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my mum still sometimes serves oj as a starter

we have to sit there, sipping from time to time, hands on laps twixt sips

farking ludicrous

Home-made yoghurt made in a sort of plug in box with pot shaped holes in it. I don't think it was all that nice..

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Gran made Black Forest Gateau one year for one of my birthday parties (must have been about 8) made as a show off to my friend's parents.

Remember her fretting over the thing for hours, then on the day of the party not a soul was allowed to touch it ('shoo' to all my friends who all wanted a bit)

Oh yes we had a snazzy soda stream lol

WE HAD THAT BOOK!!!!

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lol tutter.

Or take a hipflask of vodka and add to the oj

When I was a waitress in early 90s worked in hotel that still served juice as a starter (but you had a choice of orange, grapefruit or tomato woo hoo!)

halved avocados with prawns in mayo were pretty snazzy
special occasions only
she used to make vol-au-vents too

oh and we used to have duchesse potatoes with our sunday roast when we had visitors-now they were fancy