what was your mums SNAZZIEST recipe when you were little

[FluffyMummy123]

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electric frying pan lol. We had one, pork chops in cream & apple sauce was the recipe for it (both my parents worked for electricity board so you name the electrical gadget, they had it!)

God yes all the new fangled gadgets. My mum had an electric egg poacher. The pressure cooker was a weird thing too - do people still use these?

My mum made "Spanish Rice" whcih I hated. This would have been in the 60s. It had peppers and muchroom in it, both of wich I detest with a passion, so I used to really struggle to get enough mince and rice to be able to swallow without gagging

She was always an adeventurous cook and our cosmoploitan background meant that we were exposed to lsots fo different influences. She's always had loads of cookbooks - and they were well used.

The one thing we almost never had at home (in fact I can't remember ever having - although we did have it at friends' houses) was plain old mince'n'tatties.

In fact, she probably gave me my love of cooking - and of cook books (which are used! )

Prettybird - I LOVE "Spanish rice", and it's one of my all-time staples - no peppers/mushrooms in my version though - mine is just mince & onion & bay leaf & tomato purée (and I use wild rice).

I've never come across anyone else who knew it by that name, though, other than Those Who Lived in a Particular Street in Edinburgh (in the 60s & 70s ...). Do I know you?

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Ah, puddings - I've missed that bit. There was something called Norwegian Cream, which as I recall had apricot jam and amaretti? could it be? almondy, anyway, biscuits in it.

n... no, I'm Glasgow (but of that generation). But she could have got it/shared it with friends from Edinburgh!

I read earleir in the thread that someone doesn't think they could have had something with pepeers in it in the 60s/early 70s, but I definitely did. We moved to that house in 1969 and left it in 1974 - so I can bracket it. The painful recollection of the struggle is ingrained on my memory!

Roobie - my mum had a pressure cooker. A few years back she decided to have a pressure-cooker revival and bought a new one. AFAIK the only thing she uses it for is to make Christmas puddings. Which in my book, is more than worth it. But I am rather terrified of the pressure cooker.

chicken chasseur was uber posh

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pasta sauce on bottom, cooked pasta on top, loads of cheese and in oven for 20 mins till crunchy on top

yum

we thought we were deaad posh

My mum was fab cook, and used to make loads of great food, but always with a spicy twist, so we would have omlette with onions and chilli's and coriander in, also veg pasta bake, all spiced up, she used to use indian spices in baked beans, and I vividly rmember her watering down and spicing up with sauteed onions and spices Heinz Tomato Soup for my Gran.

My Dad would always cook on a saturday, and he would make lamb keema with peas, served with rice, and this fab dish called smashed potato, which was boiled pot, roughly mashed with a fork and dressed with veg oil, chilli powder, salt and lemon juice, it was fab.

Puddings - usually just Vienetta. Every blardy day for weeks after Iceland had it on special offer.

If we had people round it was always, always trifle made with fruit frozen in the summer - ie soggy strawberries and pavolva. If Mum was really pushing the boat out it would be a coffee-flavoured meringue with some sort of custard on the top and tinned mandarins.

My mum also used to make a mastrerpice called an "Othello cake": a Danish cake consisting of three layers of rch sponge cake, with marzipan and confectioner's custard between the layers, covered in cream and topped of with alayer of choclate ganache. A gazallion calories but very yummy!

She used to make it for the "Bee" on a Tuesday night - the ladies' night Sweeing bee that rotated round peopl's houses and for a while was quite fancy in what the hosts would prepare. The Bee still exists - but they don't go to all that effort any more!

This thread is fantastic. How did we all survive?

My mum used to make corn beef hash a great deal, and Smash was a feature, and Angel Delight. Then my dad decided he'd try making bread and that was disgusting but we had to eat it, all yeasty and unrisen.

I yearned, yearned I tell you for a Sodastream

she had a big thang for prawn cocktail with brown bread triangles despite her scathing comments re. Black Forest Gateau.

Most snazzy was Beef Stroganoff I think.

My Dad still finds it hard to cope with Lasagne. As in La sanya not La saaaaania.

And my mum used to put baked beans in her Shepherds Pie. Why would she do that?

My mum had a ring. For Rice, that is. Rice with peas. Yuk.

Tinned pears and evap.

angel deligth? i yearned for angel delight...
butterscotch instant whip with fruit salad in syrup in our house, oh how we fought for that lurid red cocktail cherry. [plangent]

I'm trying to think snazzy.

I don't think she did snazzy.

I think she did quick as can be and orf for a fag.

liver stroganoff
oh yes - and not quite as dire as it sounds - the sour cream (now there's sophistication) must have some tenderising effect on the liver