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Old 14-11-2012, 09:26
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what was your fav/worst dinner as a kid...

child hood dinners were very hit and miss as most of us rarely had a say on what we were being served..

my top dinner was my dads stuffed rolled steak with roast spuds and mashed turnip served with extra stuffing and onion gravy!!
it was absolutely mouth watering!!!

my worst was half raw steak cut chips served with fried egg cooked by my mother...which usually had to be reheated in the microwave...that should of counted as child abuse


i also hated tinned spaghetti and spuds with the skin on..yuk
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Old 14-11-2012, 11:19
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Old 14-11-2012, 12:11
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My favourite meal growing up was Chilli Con Carne, which was made using Colman's packet mix, with just added mince and kidney beans, and a ton of rice (my mum still has a habit of cooking enough rice to feed 50). It's still a favourite of mine but I make it from scratch nowadays.

My least favourite was overcooked pasta that was slightly mushy round the edges because of how overcooked it was. Served with processed marrowfat peas and Birdseye "boil in the bag" Roast Beef. The thinnest, driest "beef" drenched in thick, salty gravy that would leave a coating on the roof of my mouth. Yuck to all of it!
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Old 14-11-2012, 14:14
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Fav. Curried goat/chicken with rice and peas and fried plantain.

Worst: My Dads steak and kidney pie. The pastry was too thick and I've always hated offal. Even the smell used to make me gag.

Didn't have roast dinners very often as a kid but I used to dread them too. I remember crying through a whole Christmas dinner that I was forced to eat once!
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Old 14-11-2012, 14:39
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My Mum's Shepherd's Pie (beef mince, but no one ever called it cottage pie). She's in her 80s now and still boils the meat on the stove so it looks an unattractive grey mass before the gravy is added, so I was rather surprised to find it is still the best Shepherd's Pie I've ever tasted

Damn you Gordon for making me caramalise and deglaze

EDIT, cos I forgot to add my worst dinner: Anything that came with a baked potato. I didn't like them at all as a child.
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Old 14-11-2012, 15:19
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My mums meat and potato pie, beef stew, lamb stew and her spaghetti bolognese were my faves.

Worst was tripe and onions. Which although I refused to eat it, she still made it often for my dad so just the sight and smell of it made me feel sick!
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Old 14-11-2012, 21:52
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Worst dinner - my mum's stew cooked in a pressure cooker. The cheap cuts of meat thrown into the stock with root vegetables and pearl barley were deeply unappetising. Browning braising steak beforehand wasn't a thing she ever did.

Best dinner - Sunday roasts with all the trimmings.
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Old 15-11-2012, 01:00
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Best dinner was Chilli Con Carne and rice its sons fav as well now and tmoros dinner
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Old 15-11-2012, 10:39
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Worst was tripe and onions. Which although I refused to eat it, she still made it often for my dad so just the sight and smell of it made me feel sick!
I had a flatmate that used to cook that all the time.The smell
just clung to everything for days.
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Old 16-11-2012, 12:27
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My Mum's Shepherd's Pie (beef mince, but no one ever called it cottage pie). She's in her 80s now and still boils the meat on the stove so it looks an unattractive grey mass before the gravy is added, so I was rather surprised to find it is still the best Shepherd's Pie I've ever tasted

Damn you Gordon for making me caramalise and deglaze

EDIT, cos I forgot to add my worst dinner: Anything that came with a baked potato. I didn't like them at all as a child.
I may be wrong here but I think Shepherds Pie has minced beef and Cottage Pie has minced lamb.
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Old 16-11-2012, 12:35
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Anything my Nan cooked was lovely can't remember anything I didn't like although I did go through a cabbage disliking stage but that was more about be being awkward than anything she did. My mum however couldn't cook a boiled egg without burning it, everything was either burned or raw in the middle. If she had a drink before cooking we looked forward to a visit from the fire brigade, think neighbours had them on speed dial !
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Old 16-11-2012, 12:47
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Going off kilt a bit but in our house my dad was, when he did cook that was, the better cook. He would take a steak and yes it took what seemed like days before you got it but was so tender and would cut with ease. Loaded with onions and gravy plus mash it was food for the gods.
My mother did not like cooking much but when she did a meat and potaoe pie it was the best thing ever with a crust that was perfect.
Then the day she made a treacle pie and poured treacle from the tin on it, no custard. It was overload in the extreme. My brother and I never spoke of it and that include the time when she put my brothers dinner in the oven to keep warm untill he got home from work and above it was, yes I am not lying, a tin of custard which got knoced over and a rescue job was called for. My brother who had a heart of gold said nothing to my mum apart from to me and another unspoken subject arose. She was still a wonderfull mother and I really miss her.
I have to say she worked nights in a maternity hospital doing a 12 hour shift then came home cleaned the house and never complained about all the work.
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