food of your childhood!

[OverWyreGrower]

My mum hated cooking but cooked really well!

We had lots of meat & two veg type meals, nothing exotic at all. She hates pasta (even now!) so every so often we'd have spaghetti bolognese which tasted of nothing Italian at all - no herbs or anything! We very rarely had any "made" dessert - it was usually either a piece of fruit or a yoghurt.

Roast chicken, beef, pork, lamb. Lamb or pork chops, turkey escalopes. With either new or mashed potatoes, carrots, peas, green beans, cauliflower, broccoli.

What I do remember was Sunday teatimes We'd have had our baths and hair washed, and, since we'd have had a sunday roast, for tea we'd have sliced white bread with marge on, a granny smiths apple cut into wedges and some Walkers Ready Salted crisps (shared pack with my sister). Doesn't sound like much, but it's defintely a comfort food!

Mr OWG is even worse, as his mum had really odd taste in food, so when I met him he didn't eat cheese, eggs, vegetables, chicken. Not becuase he didn;t like them, but rather that he'd been told they were horrible and had never eaten them!

[witch-1]

Used to love Mondays.... cold meat (from roast) baked potato with stashes of butter! pickles and salad... mmmmm

Condensed milk sandwiches!

'Nutty' bars brought by my Grandad

3 legged chickens!! Mum used to attach an extra leg to stop arguments!

Jan

[yoanbob]

child of the 70s
curry
chilli
spag bol
rabbit pie
sardines on toast
liver and bacon
bacon and egg pie
tripe
salads a plenty
red salmon and cucumber sarnies
and the obligatory roasts
pudding was allways fruit pie.

[TEB]

How could I forget Toast and dripping

[shirley]

Loved my mums apple charlotte and bread pudding. The only rice I ate was as a rice pudding with lovely brown skin

[Headfry]

Sardines on toast... kippers, with slices of bread and butter to help with the bones!

[TEB]

Sardines on toast... kippers, with slices of bread and butter to help with the bones!

Yum how could I forget Sardines on Toast, but can you all stop now I am starving

[Flummery]

I grew up in the 50s too Jennie and remember fondly the stuffed hearts. Really lean and delicious. My kids loved them too. I also loved kidney although OH says they taste of what they do - process wee!
My grandad was a vegetarian yonks before we discovered it so we often had food suitable for his visits - fantastic cheese and onion pies, a very savoury herby stew we kids used to call 'Grandad Special! My mum also used to do a thing with mashed potato where she poured over it a sauce made with cheese and tomato (and I suspect egg - she now sadly can't remember how she did it!)
Her mother had a favourite dish of cheese and bacon - you fry the bacon, add roughly chopped chunks of cheddar and water (really, water) and cook it till the cheese goes all stringy and the water gets cheesy and fatty from the bacon and you dunk your bread in it. It's fabulous!

By gum, we hadn't heard of calories then, had we?

[momol]

I am an 70's child, grew up with chinese cooking ( all kind of stir fries, stews, steaming, soups... lot's of noodles and dim sum ), indonesian cooking ( curries, sate, stews... ) and some dutch fusions cooking.
Oh... I really misses those food, I can cook and love cooking but looking for some ingridients are next to impossible...
Can't complaint just have to switch to fusion ( east meet west ) cuisine.

Momol

[OverWyreGrower]

IHer mother had a favourite dish of cheese and bacon - you fry the bacon, add roughly chopped chunks of cheddar and water (really, water) and cook it till the cheese goes all stringy and the water gets cheesy and fatty from the bacon and you dunk your bread in it. It's fabulous!

This reminds me of my mums liver, bacon and onions.... what a dish!

Problem is, when I make it, it doesn't taste the same (neither does my corned beef hash!)

[jacob marley]

Rice pudding with the skin burnt round the dish majic then there was tripe and onions bread and dripping weetabix with jam on bread and lard the odd rabbit in stew cheese sandwiches with black pudding on the side i was a child late 40s early 50s but we enjoyed it we did know anything else i last had tripe and onions about 5 years ago to mrs beetons recipe jacob

[JennieAtkinson]

Toast and dripping .......... forgot that one!

[nick the grief]

I am a child of the 60's... Fish on friday with homemade chips. Roast every sunday. Lunch was dinner and tea was sandwiches and cake or something on toast.

We still do that

My mum used to do a stew with the left over meat (it was called stodge) and it was bloody lovely especially on the 2nd day when the tatties had broken down and it wen really thick - served with pickled Cabbage & bread and butter.

Dripping on toast as well oooohh black pepper on it still my favourite today - that may account for the waistline

Home made rice pud & bread and butter pudding - My daughter likes these as well.

The one thing I could never get the hang of was sunday tea at my nans tinned fruit & bread and butter God bless her she was a brilliant cook and made cakes to die for my fave being Nit Cake ( Carroway seed cake - but they looked like nits so i'm told) I haven't had that for years but strangely enough, I've just sowed some carroway up the lottie whoooo hoooo

[jacob marley]

Toast and dripping .......... forgot that one!

dont forget lashing it with salt strictly non pc now how have we lived so long jacob

[JennieAtkinson]

Caraway Seed Cake - forgot that one too. Thanks for the reminder Nick.