what was your mums SNAZZIEST recipe when you were little

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canapé chessboard - 2-inch square sandwiches, brown ones with smoked salmon in, white ones with budget "caviare" - all arranged neatly.

I remember vividly the Christmas when every party buffet (including ours) featured Chinese Leaf Salad.

Yes CatIsSleepy, cheddar curry! The chunks of cheddar went into the curry right at the end iirc so they didn't totally melt! yumm.

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No. I haven't cod. But perhaps I should. I rememnber thinking she was soooo sophisticated compared to my ma.

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Yes I do.

In fact not about but exactly.

Chicken Marengo

Vesta chilli

yikes tortoise-I don't think I'll be trying that myself in a hurry

anyone know what tuna casserole is ? with tinned tuna ? they were always having that for dinner in US tv programs - that an pot roast...

my mum did chicken marengo too !

and meatloaf, maryann. I remember that in that thing with Roseann Barr and the fat man (?)

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We had Sweet and Sour Pork (from scratch) Bolognaise, groundnut stew, palmoil chop.....but they were my Dad's recipes

Off topic, but Gran's snazziest kitchen tool was her blender, bloody thing was huge and the glass jug was a funny rusty colour with a vile green lid and it made a racket

I used to make milkshakes with it and she used to go mad, shouting at me to turn it off before I broke the motor.

She never used it herself - ever - I think she was scared

my mum made moussaka (vile) sole veronique (double vile) or navarone of lamb (really mega vile!!) Her real party piece was fondue tho!!
She had the marks and spencers recipes for entertaining book (she still has it actually and reading it is very entertaining!!) she used to put 2 ticks by the things she'd cooked succesfully and 1 by the things that weren't a hit!!

oh - on the 70s curries, with the sultanas & all the little bowls of condiments (eg bananas) - we had a tube of Bombay Duck, which would come out of the cupboard ceremoniously, be howled at, not eaten, & returned to the cupboard. I think it was there for 15 years, not exaggerating.

(Bombay Duck is dried fish, by the way)

Were everybody's kitchen cupboards filled with such delights as tinned pilchards and packets of sago, tapioca and semolina?

I used to do a tuna pie when I was a student. Onion, peppers, tin of tuna and tin of mushroom soup! Bleurch.

mum had some hysterical old cookery books with recipes for things like rice mould - the very name is vile - cold rice turned out from a mould decorated with bits of veg or pineapple rings, or jellied savoury rings with tomato in - thank God she never attempted those !

did anyone elses mum do the salmon mousse in a fish shaped mould and then add 'cucmber scales'? That thing used to freak me out!!

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Chicken in white sauce (bought from M & S) and dumped over the top of a croissant. Still gives me the shudders thinking about it.

Another scrummy treat was one of those fluted sponge bases, topped with Dream Topping and tinned mandarin oranges.