Your favourite meal

[Whistler40145]

What's your favourite meal?

I'll start off, Roast Beef & Yorkshire Pudding with Roast Potatoes and an assortment of vegetables.

Now it's your turn.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Home-made Steak and Kidney Pie (using Aberdeen Angus meat), small whole boiled potatoes (Jersey Royals when in season), long sliced carrots, cauliflower florets, broccoli and fine green beans.

In almost forty years of marriage, my good lady wife has this meal off to a fine art.

 

[Masbroughlad]

Pork pie, chips and beans for Christmas eve supper.

 

[ThePannier]

Oh wow....where do I start!!

Of all the meals I could wish to order at a restaurant - it would have to be a Sunday Roast. I just love the homely feel of one. To be specific, Chicken (wrapped in Bacon! ) with Yorkshire Puddings, the standard trimmings and some mushy peas!

The sort of stuff I would eat on a night after-school can vary from a lasagne of sorts, to a pizza or scampi with salad. The possibilites are endless, really!

I'm also a bit of a fast-food person (thankfully it doesn't show! ), and from Gregg's the first port of call is the Sausage, Bean and Cheese Melt. Pizza = Margherita.

Finally, the rare meal at McDonalds or KFC (cannot stand the queues and overall feel of the places!) would be the Chicken Selects or the Boneless Banquet for One, respectively.

 

[theblackwatch]

Home-made Steak and Kidney Pie (using Aberdeen Angus meat)

I hope that's a proper pie, as in one that has pastry on the top and bottom, and not a stew in a bowl with a puff pastry lid, which a large number of pubs advertise as a 'pie'!

 

[Whistler40145]

I trust this is good old home cooking, but maybe of the East Cheshire gourmet variety!

Our Quizmaster will have to explain!

 

[Yew]

I hope that's a proper pie, as in one that has pastry on the top and bottom, and not a stew in a bowl with a puff pastry lid, which a large number of pubs advertise as a 'pie'!

You may be interested in this petition to make that a criminal offence http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/64629

 

[ThePannier]

You may be interested in this petition to make that a criminal offence http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/64629

'Exemptions will apply for Shepherds, Cottage or Fish pies'.

Can't think of much else other than maybe a Chicken, Mince or Steak & Kidney pie that a pub would sell.

 

[gordonthemoron]

Scotch Pie (with mutton)

 

[fowler9]

Chicken Biryani. Bigos a close second.

 

[deltic1989]

Mixed Grill, consisting of Sirloin Steak (cooked medium), chicken fillet, gammon steak, and Lincolnshire sausages. With sides of chips, peas, a large fried mushroom, and onion rings. With a nice helping of Coleman's English Mustard.

 

[Whistler40145]

Ooh. I'm licking my lips!

 

[fowler9]

Mixed Grill, consisting of Sirloin Steak (cooked medium), chicken fillet, gammon steak, and Lincolnshire sausages. With sides of chips, peas, a large fried mushroom, and onion rings. With a nice helping of Coleman's English Mustard.

Now thats got my mouth watering. Ha ha. To be fair all the suggestions have but we have to have a favourite.

 

[Whistler40145]

I wonder how far down the list would be Fish, Chips & Mushy Peas or Christmas Dinner?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I hope that's a proper pie, as in one that has pastry on the top and bottom, and not a stew in a bowl with a puff pastry lid, which a large number of pubs advertise as a 'pie'!

I have returned to the quiz and as my good lady wife is of 73 years vintage, she is horrified to hear her pie maligned and cannot believe that anyone could describe the monstrocity topped with puff pastry in a bowl as a pie.

Her pie has the most delightful suet pastry top and bottom and a side crust that is a culinary delight in its right.

 

[Whistler40145]

Exactly Paul.

I'm not questioning the pie, just others.

Ooh, you're making me feel rather hungry at the detailed quality of Patricia's Steak & Kidney Pie.

You can tell Mrs Sidorczuk that it wasn't me who was questioning it's quality.

 

[table38]

Her pie has the most delightful suet pastry top and bottom and a side crust that is a culinary delight in its right.

As we only have your word for that, I think this could most easily be resolved if Mrs S could bake a few for the forum's resident pie experts to sample

 

[Whistler40145]

Oh blast, I wish I hadn't started this thread now. Well....you've heard of Watergate, now we've got Piegate!

 

[Eng274]

Pork pies - despite knowing how little pig meat is actually in there.

Steak pies - again, the proper 'walled' pies, none of this side dish with a lid nonsense. Apologies to those who make a cracking pastry lid and filling, but its not a pie (IMO).

Scotch Eggs - can be very messy, but a lovely snack to make the other half leave me in peace (she hates them).

Granny Smith apples - the only apple I can really eat, the bitterness and sharp, crisp flavour makes all the others taste bland IMO.

Haggis - lovely. Tastes better when hung for a few days after being caught.

Caramel digestives are nice too.

Could be here all day so I'll stop there for now..

 

[Darandio]

Haggis - lovely. Tastes better when hung for a few days after being caught.

Now I'm confused, how exactly do you 'catch' a haggis?

 

[Whistler40145]

Well...you wait for it to roll down the mountain & then the haggis pickers gather them up!

 

[table38]

Now I'm confused, how exactly do you 'catch' a haggis?

Haggis live in the Scottish mountains and have evolved so that their legs on one side are shorter than the other. This means they can only run around hills in one direction, so all you need to do to catch one is to get it to run the wrong way.

 

[theblackwatch]

I have returned to the quiz and as my good lady wife is of 73 years vintage, she is horrified to hear her pie maligned and cannot believe that anyone could describe the monstrocity topped with puff pastry in a bowl as a pie.

Her pie has the most delightful suet pastry top and bottom and a side crust that is a culinary delight in its right.

I am pleased to hear it is, a proper pie with pastry in all the right places! I'm sure it is very nice, and will be popping round with table38 at some point to try it out.

 

[Darandio]

Haggis live in the Scottish mountains and have evolved so that their legs on one side are shorter than the other. This means they can only run around hills in one direction, so all you need to do to catch one is to get it to run the wrong way.

Thanks, I knew there would be a simple answer. I had contemplated it as some sort of sheep/fish crossbreed.

 

[GrimsbyPacer]

Haggis live in the Scottish mountains and have evolved so that their legs on one side are shorter than the other. This means they can only run around hills in one direction, so all you need to do to catch one is to get it to run the wrong way.

Haggis is NOT an animal! It's an ancient Greej meal that is popular in ''traditional'' Scottish themes.

My favourite meal would be:
Eggs, Black Pudding, Kidney, Yorkshire Puddings and Custard.
With Rainbow drops, McFlurry and a Lemon and Lime Sush Puppy.
Anyone else like those?

 

[fowler9]

Haggis is NOT an animal! It's an ancient Greej meal that is popular in ''traditional'' Scottish themes.

My favourite meal would be:
Eggs, Black Pudding, Kidney, Yorkshire Puddings and Custard.
With Rainbow drops, McFlurry and a Lemon and Lime Sush Puppy.
Anyone else like those?

Not all on the same plate! And the Haggis IS an animal! I have proof!

To be honest I like the first line but not so keen on the second. I don't have a very sweet tooth, infact I don't have many teeth left. Ha ha.

 

[FQ]

For me it would be Homemade pie (with pastry in all the right places!), chips and baked beans closely followed by Macaroni Cheese and chips.

 

[Whistler40145]

My mum's homemade beef burgers go down a treat, they are made with beef mince, mixed with fried onions, then tossed in flour.

 

[rail-guy]

3 nice sausages , mash, peas ( not mushy peas - euuughhhh ) . gravy all over. washed down by pint shandy or pint of ice cold pepsi

 

[richw]

To share a response I once got when I queried a pie not having the base and sides - The establishment told me by only having a pastry lid without the rest it met a much lower calorie count and kept someone or another happy within some health accreditation they were applying for.

My favourite is always a Lamb biryani. The choice of lamb being a massive shock to anyone who knows me as I don't like lamb in any other format other than biryani!

Favourite takeaway - Singapore Chow Mein.
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3 nice sausages , mash, peas ( not mushy peas - euuughhhh ) . gravy all over. washed down by pint shandy or pint of ice cold pepsi

I cooked this tonight.
Pork and cider sausages from the local butcher.
The mash I actually thought I messed up at first- I thought I'd put too much milk in- however it turned out to be the best tasting mash I've ever done! I did leave it on a low heat stirring it for a few minutes after I mashed it to evaporate the excess milk.