what was your mums SNAZZIEST recipe when you were little

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My mum made a minced beef curry using sharwoods curry powder she served it on a bed of batchelor's savoury rice. It was actually really nice and I always wish i'd got the recipe off her.

Neapolitan ice cream was a treat too.

maidamess my Mum used to call that Manchester tart but we had chocolate sprinkles on the top no coconut. But the regulation half inch thick pastry.

still is in our house today today.... well for the DC anyway.

Yes, Manchester Tart! (Why Manchester?) She used to try and leave an un-coconutted corner for me, but a few grains always got on my bit.

I remember a pork and cider casserole that had celery in it. To this day my brother and I hate cooked celery.

My mum used to make bakewell tart.

I recall a bizarre meal - bananas wrapped in ham and then baked with cheese sauce.

ew, that sounds revolting

Sweet and sour pork made from a homepride tin job-sickly sweet as I remember-gawd I used to think my mum cooked a great deal from scratch-it was all from packets and jars

I actually recall it being perfectly pleasant actually - not tempted to resurrect it though!

I remember the numerous stews when we got a new fangled slo' cooker - there was always something quite disgusting about the non-crispy pale sausages.

Today today - just what I said about cooked celery!! Wonder if your mum got Supercook too

Cooked celery. Yuck!

Mum had a box of recipe cards she worked her way through, don't recall any main courses, but plenty of fancy puddings:
lemon meringue pie
pears in red wine
charlotte russe
apple snow

we had chill in the 70's too, alternating with bolognese every saturday.

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My mother did not do snazzy cooking when I was a child - if anyone remembers the mother character in some of the Marian Keyes novels who can't cook - that was my mum (still is really).

The only snazzy thing I can remember is cheese and pineapple on cocktail sticks - which she first did for parties but then started serving up to us for our tea!

Does anyone remember Gypsy Tart (it was a pudding we had at school)

My mum's was Chicken Paprika - roast chicken with a sauce made of mushroom soup (yes really), curry powder with sliced bananas and tomatoes on the side with rice.

When my sister an I rebelled against this the alternative on offer was the mushroom soup as a sauce with peas added

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Do you know I have never eaten a Vesta meal, drunk a Sodastream drink or even heard of an electric yohgurt maker.

I ate plenty of meals cooked in lard though.

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MIL apparently used to make Goulash - dh asked me to try to recreate it for him - don't think it was quite as he remembered it (but then i didn't use any packets or jars )

vesta meals where the culinary highlight in our house and the most exciting thing of all was vegetable tempura juat typing it brings back fond memories