Would any other irish mum like to join me in appreciation of VEDA?

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I have 4 (yes 4!)hot buttered slices sitting in front of me...

live in scotland but my darling dad brought me some loaves last week. i've just cut into the last one...

I don't usually use sesame seeds and I often rub in a bit(a tablespoon or so) of veg oil before adding the liquid ingredients.

Oh, yes, I still get plenty of surprises from DH of foods he finds tasty.

That's why I love being married to him. And when he throws out expressions along the lines of 'keening into my shawl.'

Keeps life interesting!

And of course everything is kept in a "press" not a cupboard and when we were sent off to the shops we were away getting the "messages"

I'm always keening in to my shawl

and mum always say's

" Jesus, Mary and Holy St Joseph - what you see when you haven't got a gun"

Now - Galtee cheese - like or loathe ?

Loathe Galtee cheese. There are so many totally fab Irish farmhouse cheeses. Cashel Blue, Gubbeen, Mileens, Durrus, ect.. I urge any of you to check them out.

Cheese is yucky.

DH and DD1 eat Galloway cheddar.

I can't even take the smell.

Smells like sick.

LOL expat "smells like sick"....
Never smelt it but don't want to either now ..!!!

laudaud..rock shandy..never heard of it..! Take it you mix club orange with club orange..???
Thought shandy had booze init.? Now that is "irish" .!!
Think I better get onto ma and pa for some items to bring home..!!!

Oh btw I am also a sucker for tayto c&o...Gives me good memories...

omg i love veda. my mum used to post me food parcels with this, crisps, potato and soda bread when i was at college in brum. i've now decided what to have for lunch thanks!! i have to bring this for my friends too when i visit them in england.

1 bottle of club lemon and 1 bottle of club orange is a pint glass - great for a hangover.

Galtee cheese is a bit like dairylea - isn't it?

Haven't got a receipie as such but a couple of tablespoons of brown sugar does wonders and a handful of bran. Honey can also work. You can use half milk and half water instead of Buttermilk.

Other Irish delights:

Cidona
Brack (sp?) with cheese
Pigs Arse and Cabbage (or was that my mother's own speciality)
Dumplings
Any seafood from a coastal town.

'Pigs Arse and Cabbage'

Oh, yes, dros! This sounds delightful! Right up there w/those dried minnows w/eyes that my mother ate in Japan. Mmmm.

How about some tongue and gizzards to go w/it?

That malt loaf is starting to sound good now . . .

Using Guiness in the bread works really well too

I also remember Uncle Hughie walking us down the back garden as it faced on to the river Moy, bunging his waders on and plucking a fresh wild salmon out of the river. Auntie Maggie would gut and fillet it and have it on the plates with a mountain of floury potatoes and parsley sauce in half an hour... no food miles then !!
But I also remember getting fed up of it too ... " Jeez not salmon again " which i could be that bored of it now !!

WISH not which !!

Yummy, yummy salmon! Ooooo.

At least, you've never been offered puffin to eat.

Boak. Putrid.

Just give me the whisky instead .

PUFFIN ??? seriously ??!!! Dear God !

Had snake in Korea - away with work many years ago - back in the mists of time when I wore heels and a suit to work !! It was considered a high delicacy and my boss was furiously nudging me under the table to eat it so as not to offend our hosts

Ye Gods - I MUST preview - when I say nudging me furiously under the table I do of course me in the nudging sense not the biblical !!

Yes, a lovely, feathery puffin.

The fact that many of these people had to exist on oatcakes and cheese during battle says a lot.

Puffin probably seemed like T-bone steak to them.

Complete hi - jack of this thread I know - apologies ( how did we get from Veda to Puffin ??!)

But where in the name of all that is good were you to get offered puffin !!

Brilliant thread!!!

Expat - have ye no taste at all girl????

I remember my Dad eating pig's trotters - yuck yuck and double treble yuck!!!!

Love the phrase "Pig's arse" - my Mum used to call us "cow's aresholes" when she was mad at us - she denies it now totally!!!

And have to say (sheepishly) I quite like Galtee cheese!!!

I tell DH all the time, whenver he tucks into malt loaf, Galloway cheese, neeps, a smokie or a nasty pizza supper, 'Bless your poor, tragic Scottish soul, having to eat all that nasty stuff.'

And how about Yukky Richmond "Irish" sausages - now that is truly filled with lips and arse !!

I remember going into a pub in Ballybunion (Kerry) once and they had complimentary pigs trotters and a pigs head for customers - yummy!!!!

I'd have spewed my Harp all over the floor if I'd seen that one, laud.

Boakatastic.

I would spew Harp too - yuk!