...and what's the best food you've ever been served in someone's house?

[CitizenPrecious]

yeah, I know it's predictable, but my bf and dcs are on their way to MIL's- and I have to stay behind with the dawgs, so I am feeling a bit hard done by.

Humour me please...what's the nicest thing you've ever had put in front of you in someone else's house?

mine was at my Granny's- a cheese and onion toastie, my first one ever, when Brevilles had just been invented (late70s/early 80s?) I have never ever had one like it since- though by God I've tried...either the onion is too strong, or the cheese is overpowering, not crunchy/greasy enough- etc etc. Anyway it was yum

How about yours?

everything my au pair family made for me late 80s in s germany
they were austrian bon viveurs with a hosue in Tuscany so we ate a lot of food that just wasnt heard of in the UK at the time
i washed it all down with Paulaner pils

i was very fat when i returned

Good God, you are missing out on food because you have to stay with the dogs?

I can't narrow down to one dish. FIL was a Michelin starred chef and everything I ate at the ILs was fab. Sadly he died a couple of years ago.

Keep trying with the toastie

I nannied once when I was at uni and we went to Cornwall and had a treacle tart and clotted cream

it was the best thing I've ever eaten - never managed to repeat the magnificence of that tart.

A roast goose NY dinner at my boyfriend's parents when I was 14. It was the first time I'd ever tasted poultry that wasn't chicken or turkey, and that hadn't been incinerated. My love for fatty meat has stayed with me all my life.

Steak and chips at my grans.

That woman could acheive strange and miraculous things with cow.

When I lived in Greece, the ancient mother of my boss thought I needed fattening up after getting sick with flu type thing. She made me the most delicious lunch ever and as she didn't speak a word of English and my Greek was barely passable at this point, I have absolutely no idea what it was! It was vegetarian though as I am vegetarian, and I think it had aubergines in it.....it was delicious anyway.

My borhter cooked the most fabulous roast lamb and full timmmings last week. I don't usualy eat lamb...but the who meal was fantastic.

He is turely talented.

Not in someone's house, but my DD was in hospital and wouldn't let me leave her side. My lovely mum brought me in a sandwich she made for me - chicken and salad and perfectly seasoned. Nothing ever (or since) tasted so good.

when i was 15, my bf's mum was having a dinner party. she gave us a plate of her home made and multi layered lasagne and garlic bread. my first time. god it was absolutely stupendous! never beaten.

The chocolate mousse with caramel centre that I have just eaten at my aunt's house. Twas superb.

last week I went to a friend's house for an xmas dinner party. Being 39 weeks pregnant, full of indigestion and generally off my food I was dreading it.

However, the host who is half german had cooked the most sumptuous pork schnitzels, followed by beef olives, potato dumplings and red cabbage, then a snazzy christmas pud thing. I am not a massive meat eater- I'm horribly fussy and a real food snob. However- this was all just melt in the mouth, prepared with real and just so damn tasty.

DH had to roll me out of there and I have hardly eaten since as nothing can match it.

CoqAuVin, I was in Tuscany in the late 80s too - whereabouts were you?

My Godmother lives in Tuscany and is a cordon bleu cook. My God, I used to have some fantastic lunches/dinners there.

I once worked for someone whose DH was ill, I ws nursing him and she was otherwise alone.

She was an excellent coo, and would share the meal with us at weekends:my absolute favourite ever was her tomato salad with basil and oliveoil.... stilllove it but never quite the same as her home grown / vought in Italy variant. She also introduced me to game, and I have loved pheasant and venison ever since, though developed a powerful loathing of pigeon.

Mopre to the point,she was the step between the Iceland menu of my youth and the hlaf decent fodderwe eat now,all traceable butchery and the like;I'dnever have encountered GHI recipes or aspirational eating without her, but these days I have a name for it.

my nanny days also...jewish family,kosher food.....is it lokshen pudding?

I couldn't tell you what I ate exactly, but I had dinner cooked for me once by a Japanese woman and her dh, who is Italian. Bloody hell that was good.

a superb rib of beef on the bone at a friends dinner party. Twas fabulously done in the aga along with roast potatoes to die for.

I was converted to rib of beef on the bone from that day forward. No other cut will do for a roast.