food of your childhood!

[dexterdoglancashire]

I know Ive posted some of my mums recipes before, but my favourite meal was: chopped bacon, onions and tomatoes with a dash of worcester sauce all fried up together. I try and make it these days, but somehow cant quite get it right. My mum wasnt the best of cooks, but she did try her best! Oh, also her creamed chicken and asparagus pie (tinned asparagus in those days!) Bernie

[Sue]

Another child of the fifties and sixties here, my mother was (is) not a good cook, she always said it was because she was a child in the war and not allowed to cook in case of wasting precious food.
But bad as it was it's left me loving heavy fruitcake with the fruit sunk to the bottom, light fruit cake just doesn't seem right. rice pudding made with long grain rice not pudding rice. Some things I never loved - sprouts all squashy and bright green from added bicarb of soda, parsnips, pease pudding, the stink of it...tinned fruit salad - and salad - which was lettuce, cucumber, a tomato and beetroot, all soused in vinegar with salad cream. Meat pies without any thickening so the meat was tough and the gravy all watery.
And all that fuss and panic on Christmas morning, waking up to the smell of onions boiling for the stuffing.
My poor old Mum, she did let us experiment as much as we liked so did get a chance to try my hand, as I was old enough to do this, foreign holidays came in and all that new food - what was that white stuff the Scandinavians were eating for breakfast - ugh sour (yoghurt which I later learned to love) and spaghetti and pizza and curry which I did learn how to cook properly after thinking Vesta curry was a good thing...
Have any of you read Nigel Slater's autobiography Toast, it is a marvellous book of food nostalgia, arctic roll anyone?
Sue

[Mrs Dobby]

Child of the 70's/80's here, still remember going shopping with Mum to the market in Stafford on a Saturday morning, broken biscuits off the biscuit stall! Mmm!

Mum used to make her own bread a couple of times a week, hot fresh bread with butter and a bowl of Heinz beans was always a fave in early childhood!

Mum was a good if unadventurous cook, her Spag Bol was fab, I still make it now, and Saturday night tea was always sandwiches with pickled onions and a cake for afters, eaten in front of the fire and with Dr Who on the telly!

Sundays was always a roast with veg and a homemade rice pud for afters, by the time I was 10 or 12 I was cooking the roast and the veg, used to love it, but for some reason I never got to make the rice pud!

Nowadays I love cooking exotic foods, love italian, spanish, greek, mexican, chinese and indian foods, especially experimenting in the kitchen!

[muckdiva]

Have any of you read Nigel Slater's autobiography Toast, it is a marvellous book of food nostalgia, arctic roll anyone?
Sue

Toast is one of my all time favourite books Sue, such a mixture of emotions and memories whilst reading it, especially if you are of the arctic roll generation.

[Flummery]

My mum always made bread. We got home from school at 3.30 and dad didn't arrive for tea till 5.30 so the pangs were assuaged with home made bread and (home made too) jam. Natually all our friends realised and Ma would feed 4 or 5 extra kids on baking day!