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What food did you grow up with at home?
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I grew up with a lot of frozen food (e.g. breaded fish, pizza, curries, peas), things out of tins/jars/packets (e.g. biscuits, donuts, cakes, sweetcorn) or a plain meat, potatoes&2veg most of the time. Chips done in a deep fat fryer was our staple.
I can sympathise with the likes of Jamie Oliver, heh, since I have only really tried to cook in the last year or so, and find it hard to keep at because it's too easy otherwise.
I can sympathise with the likes of Jamie Oliver, heh, since I have only really tried to cook in the last year or so, and find it hard to keep at because it's too easy otherwise.
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I've come full circle now though, and cook most of my own meals from scratch, and particularly like a good casserole just like mum used to make.
Never did me any harm, I was always a skinny, lanky thing as a kid
Funnily enough I still like liver but pan fried with chilli and red wine.
She also made a belting lemon meringue pie so much so she was famous for it in the local community.
She also made a wonderful gravy from scratch (and taught me how to)
RIP Mum
We also ate a lot of chips/mashed potatoes, always homemade - never frozen or Smash, lunchtimes we would have beans on toast, egg on toast, tinned spaghetti on toast, cheese on toast etc
Weekends were cold meats and salads in the summer, Sunday roasts, or winter teatimes we had jacket potatoes and spare ribs or cheese on toast.
And ALWAYS fish on Fridays - whether it was fresh from the market, sometimes fish fingers/fish cakes and the best of all - a takeaway from the chippy.
We mainly had stews, meat pudding or pies, shephard pie. What we had for dessert depended on what we'd had for dinner..so if nan had made a meat pudding, we'd have suet pudding for dessert, or a meat pie meant fruit pie
We always had fresh fish from the market on Friday, she used to do me Plaice in milk and parsley sauce
Saturday was called nans day off, so lunch was usually pie mash and liquor from the shop, (yum) and tea was always shell fish and salad,with bread and butter
And Sundays were always the same..egg and bacon for breakfast, a huge roast for lunch, followed by jelly and icecream....and cold meat sandwhiches for tea
In my twenties so still live at home.
Growing up everything was made from scratch even though both my Mum and Dad worked full time, and I don’t think I had a ready meal until I was about 17.....and then didn’t like/don’t like them. Having said that we still had/have fish fingers and baked beans but that doesn’t count as ready meal does it?
My Mum cooked mostly, her parents lived all around the world after the War so there were influences and things we had quite a bit before they came into the supermarket......I remember buying olive oil from the chemist in about 1985. My Dad grew a lot of vegetables until he died a few years ago. We were spoilt but didn’t realise it he grew everything!
We would have BBQ’s for Sunday lunch from about late March to October with a huge variety of different stuff as well as regular favourites and then in the off season Sunday was a roast from the butcher.
We would often have some form of mince on Saturday night lasagne or moussaka, chilli, bolognaise, mince beef pies, cottage pie, shepherd’s pie etc etc etc.
Monday would be leftovers, then the rest of the week something from the following all with fresh vegetables and huge salads: - chicken thighs in soup, pacific pie, fish pie, burgers, chicken Kiev’s, fish-like trout in butter oven baked, casoluet, casseroles.
We also went to France a lot so would always bring back loads and loads of stuff.
When mum had the time she was great and cooking and baking. On a Saturday night she'd make pizzas from scratch, and she'd bake Irish soda bread every Saturday morning.
Her steak and Kidney pie was to die for and her stews.
I can always remember poding (sp) the fresh peas and eating them as I was poding.:D
As very young kids we would have bread and sugar.:eek: Eww the thought now, also bread and dripping.
Sunday teatime we'd have *winkle sandwiches*:D
Ah, you mean podding the peas, sorry, took a while, didn't know what you meant for a while there, winkle sandwiches sound good, my dad would always bring home winkles from the pub and we'd have them for Sunday tea, with tinned salmon sandwiches and jam tarts
I really couldnt be sure whether it was one P or 2:o
I think we had a seafood stall near our local pub so I think me dad used to buy em from there,along with shrimps and cockles!:):) me mum loved whelks....ewww:eek::D
Everything was cooked very VERY plainly in my house as my Dad hated spices of all kinds. Once I was in my teens we started having a lot more ready meals (as Mum isn't the best cook and generally was too busy by then) so I got to have bolognaise and whatnot for the first time.
Tinned fruit was also a regular in our house served up with either carnation or dream topping otherwise it was Angel Delight or birds Trifle:). By the late 70s my mum used to stockpile ski yoghurts - still not keen on yoghurt after being force fed it in my teens
On a saturday we would get crabs nippers or winkles as a treat while in town with my mum, we'd choose a pick-a-mix to eat while watching Saturday evening TV, and then we'd get fish & chips (in Newspaper) on the way home.
Puddings in our house were Lemon Meringue Pie, Apple Crumble, and Chocolate Cake - all of which my mum makes exceptionally to this day.
On a Sunday we never had pudding because we visited my Aunts & she made the best Apple Pie I have ever tasted, and she served it warm with half ice cream, half fresh cream.
Never any spices or frozen meals, even now you will only find meat in mums freezer, and if we ever had chips they were home made! Salads in the summer, just cold meats and egg and cheese and the salad veg, no dressing and if we were poorly, home made ham and pea soup or "chucky butties" (boiled egg all mashed up with a nob of butter and some salt then spread on crusty bread) mmmmmmm...
We did I'm only 30!!! hee hee ;OD
Stews
Mince
Cabbage
Broths
Square sausage and beans
Chicken pies
Breaded fish on a friday
I used to sit at the table for hours crying because I hated it all!