Your favourite meal

[Whistler40145]

Mashed potatoes are ok, but not if they're like the dry lumpy School dinners variety

 

[FQ]

My folks always do a brilliant 'cheesy' mash. Exactly the same as normal mash but with lots of cheese.

Brilliant!

 

[SS4]

My folks always do a brilliant 'cheesy' mash. Exactly the same as normal mash but with lots of cheese.

Brilliant!

I occasionally mash in a spring onion or two when mashing

 

[Zamracene749]

1. A good quality dry cure ham with some tasty rind washed cheese (eg epoisses, stinking bishop) helped down with decent cider and some nairns oat biscuits mmmmm.

2. Curry. Thai or Bangladeshi for preference, but anything spicy will do.

=3. Roast with all the trimmings or- a full English breakfast, black pudding included of course!

4 Tinned tuna steak sandwiches. In spring water, mixed with a bit of vinegar. Almost every day for the last 40 years never tire of it

 

[telstarbox]

Indian, specifically: veg rogan josh, aloo peas, garlic naan, poppadom and pickle tray, with a lager.

Also very partial to a decent cheeseboard with oatcakes, grapes etc.

 

[43106]

A fry-up! Cumberland Sausages, lean smoked back bacon, chip-shop chipsteak, mushrooms, and chips cooked in beef dripping and not that dreadful vegetable or sunflower oil, fried bread. To that, add sloppy, slightly under-cooked scrambled eggs. All with a side order of sliced white bread to make an impromptu sarnie. NO black pudding, cos I hate it!

 

[rail-guy]

the post i posted earlier i forgot to say its usually in a pub that does that kinda meal or at home with sausages mash gravy in a ready meal ( it tastes alright ) and done in my microwave. with a 500ml bottle ice cold in fridge for 4 / 5 hrs. took out oopen it wen my food is done

 

[Busaholic]

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.

Now my wife would describe that as a steak and kidney pudding, and she comes from Lancashire. If I'm feeling bold and can find a crash helmet I might just mention she hasn't made one in about ten years.

 

[PermitToTravel]

I do quite enjoy a very rare steak - the total cooking time, across both sides, should not exceed 100 seconds!

 

[richw]

Now my wife would describe that as a steak and kidney pudding, and she comes from Lancashire. If I'm feeling bold and can find a crash helmet I might just mention she hasn't made one in about ten years.

The old pudding vs pie debate.
A pudding is suet and pie is pastry according to some.
according to others though a pie is cooked in the oven a pudding is steamed, and the crust is irrelevant.
Personally I have always believed its a pudding if boiled or steamed, and a pie if oven baked.

 

[GrimsbyPacer]

I do quite enjoy a very rare steak - the total cooking time, across both sides, should not exceed 100 seconds!

Don't under cook steak, you might get mad cow disease if you're unlucky. If it's burnt nothing harmful can survive. If it's fresh out the cow (really a horse) then germs would love to munch it too.

I'm surprised no one mentioned....
Spam or Cheesy Peas yet.

 

[Temple Meads]

A good old traditional breakfast for me, but you can keep the hash browns!

 

[GatwickDepress]

A good old traditional breakfast for me, but you can keep the hash browns!

I'll have your hash browns! I can't get enough of them.

 

[Whistler40145]

GrimsbyPacer, how do you like Spam, fried or straight out of the tin?

 

[DelayRepay]

I love shepherds pie* - especially at this time of year when it's cold outside. Whatever is wrong with the world, whether it's the stress of work, delays on the train, floods or adverse weather, a good home made shepherd's pie makes everything better

*Yes it's not a proper pie. I know....
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GrimsbyPacer, how do you like Spam, fried or straight out of the tin?

Spam fritters were my favorite school dinner, in the pre-Jamie Oliver days of the early 1990s!

 

[Masbroughlad]

Or a fantastic club sandwich with a few thin fries accompanied by a glass of chilled dry white wine. This taken in the warm sunshine of my favorite hotel in Majorca next to the sea.

 

[STEVIEBOY1]

My favorite meal is proper Roast Beef, Yorkshire Pudding & Roast Potatoes. I have also been in Yorkshire and enjoyed a large Yorkshire Pudding filled with meaty gravy, a pub used to do that in Whitby, but does not seem to now. I try to go there about once a year to play on the NYMR.

A nice curry is good too. Never sure which is hotter, Madras or Vindaloo.

 

[muz379]

Im a big lover of Caribbean food ,

Curried goat , rice with peas and steamed veg , with a dumpling to mop up the gravy and a lamb curry patty to go with .

After that my second favorite has to be thai food
Almost always have the Massaman Lam curry with sticky rice when we go out for thai .

and my third faveorite would have to be Pierogi - polish steamed dumplings with potatoe and minced meat inside .
either that or Gołąbki which is also polish - cabbage leaves stuffed with meat and onion

 

[fowler9]

Don't under cook steak, you might get mad cow disease if you're unlucky. If it's burnt nothing harmful can survive. If it's fresh out the cow (really a horse) then germs would love to munch it too.

I'm surprised no one mentioned....
Spam or Cheesy Peas yet.

At the risk of going off topic you can burn a steak to a cinder and it won't kill the prions that cause new variant CJD. Apparently autoclaves used to cleanse surgical instruments don't even kill them. Part of the problem really.

Anyway back to food. Beef Wellington! Not had it often but my word.
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Im a big lover of Caribbean food ,

Curried goat , rice with peas and steamed veg , with a dumpling to mop up the gravy and a lamb curry patty to go with .

After that my second favorite has to be thai food
Almost always have the Massaman Lam curry with sticky rice when we go out for thai .

and my third faveorite would have to be Pierogi - polish steamed dumplings with potatoe and minced meat inside .
either that or Gołąbki which is also polish - cabbage leaves stuffed with meat and onion

I love Pierogi and Golabki. Was in Wroclaw lately and I got a bit of a surprise, we went to a cafe that seemed to specialise in Pierogi and they were baked. They were almost like pasties. I think I prefer them steamed.

 

[muz379]

I love Pierogi and Golabki. Was in Wroclaw lately and I got a bit of a surprise, we went to a cafe that seemed to specialise in Pierogi and they were baked. They were almost like pasties. I think I prefer them steamed.

I agree they are much better steamed . Last time I went to Poland I was in Katowice and the Hotel we stayed in served them baked . They where nice but I still prefer them steamed

 

[GrimsbyPacer]

GrimsbyPacer, how do you like Spam, fried or straight out of the tin?

I would prefer it out of the tin. I was just saying before the Spam people of Monty Python start it.

In the supermarket you can now get Candy Pizzas!!
If that doesn't count chicken and chorizo is nice.

 

[fowler9]

I agree they are much better steamed . Last time I went to Poland I was in Katowice and the Hotel we stayed in served them baked . They where nice but I still prefer them steamed

I have a friend from Tychy just down the road from Katowice, it is courtesy of his wife that I get to try most of the Polish food I have eaten. Very nice it is to. I remember another time going to Krakow with some friends, they would only eat steaks and Pizzas, they weren't that impressed with the Bigos I got, they didn't know what they were missing.

 

[GrimsbyPacer]

I have a friend from Tychy just down the road from Katowice, it is courtesy of his wife that I get to try most of the Polish food I have eaten. Very nice it is to. I remember another time going to Krakow with some friends, they would only eat steaks and Pizzas, they weren't that impressed with the Bigos I got, they didn't know what they were missing.

Polish (not Mr Sheen) pork sausages from Morlina are the best!

 

[fowler9]

Polish (not Mr Sheen) pork sausages from Morlina are the best!

Aw where can you get them? I love Kielbasa, not quite as much as Chorizo but still. Ha ha.

 

[GrimsbyPacer]

Aw where can you get them? I love Kielbasa, not quite as much as Chorizo but still. Ha ha.

I get Morlina stuff at Asda. I use it in sandwiches at lunch.
Candy Pizzas are in a pizza box and are on top shelf at Asda Grimsby's sweet aisle. The chicken and chorizo are sold 2 for £4 at Morrisons and they're not frozen. Near the entrance.

 

[fowler9]

I get Morlina stuff at Asda. I use it in sandwiches at lunch.
Candy Pizzas are in a pizza box and are on top shelf at Asda Grimsby's sweet aisle. The chicken and chorizo are sold 2 for £4 at Morrisons and they're not frozen. Near the entrance.

Ah cheers mate. We normally go to Tesco because it is closer. Make the odd trip to Asda though. I can't think of any Morrisons in Liverpool at least not in my area. There is an express style one in the city centre. I will have a nose.

 

[Busaholic]

I have a friend from Tychy just down the road from Katowice, it is courtesy of his wife that I get to try most of the Polish food I have eaten. Very nice it is to. I remember another time going to Krakow with some friends, they would only eat steaks and Pizzas, they weren't that impressed with the Bigos I got, they didn't know what they were missing.

The best bread I've ever eaten was Polish dark rye (or black) that was sold from a little shop tucked into the side of St Pancras Station in Pancras Way, when that area was as down-at-heel as almost anywhere. It was only sold on a Friday morning: from memory, the shop only opened then anyway. If you were so minded, you could cross the road and proceed a hundred yards or so up in the gasholders direction and use what I believe was London's first walk-in car valeting service, cost £1.50!

 

[muz379]

I have a friend from Tychy just down the road from Katowice, it is courtesy of his wife that I get to try most of the Polish food I have eaten. Very nice it is to. I remember another time going to Krakow with some friends, they would only eat steaks and Pizzas, they weren't that impressed with the Bigos I got, they didn't know what they were missing.

Ahh we have relations that live in Poland - someone in my family married a Pole so growing up whenever we visited our Polish half of the family we had homecooked polish food .

As for visiting places , Whenever I visit places I like to try the cuisine , you have nothing to loose . The only exception being when I went to paris where apart from one french meal everywhere was far too expensive for the cheap short trip I was trying to make
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I get Morlina stuff at Asda. I use it in sandwiches at lunch.
Candy Pizzas are in a pizza box and are on top shelf at Asda Grimsby's sweet aisle. The chicken and chorizo are sold 2 for £4 at Morrisons and they're not frozen. Near the entrance.

My local asda in Manchester has a good section of refrigerated polish foods . And there is a really good polish Delhi in a part of Manchester . Their Smoked herrings are too die for .

 

[fowler9]

The best bread I've ever eaten was Polish dark rye (or black) that was sold from a little shop tucked into the side of St Pancras Station in Pancras Way, when that area was as down-at-heel as almost anywhere. It was only sold on a Friday morning: from memory, the shop only opened then anyway. If you were so minded, you could cross the road and proceed a hundred yards or so up in the gasholders direction and use what I believe was London's first walk-in car valeting service, cost £1.50!

Yeah that is really nice, I remember trying it with a bowl of Barszcz. Very nice.
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Ahh we have relations that live in Poland - someone in my family married a Pole so growing up whenever we visited our Polish half of the family we had homecooked polish food .

As for visiting places , Whenever I visit places I like to try the cuisine , you have nothing to loose . The only exception being when I went to paris where apart from one french meal everywhere was far too expensive for the cheap short trip I was trying to make
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My local asda in Manchester has a good section of refrigerated polish foods . And there is a really good polish Delhi in a part of Manchester . Their Smoked herrings are too die for .

Brilliant mate. One of my brothers friends is married to a Polish lady, I can't remember where from off the top of my head. Another very good friend is a lady from Lodz. She is married to a scouser now and has a very English sounding name which baffles people when they hear her accent. Ha ha. I have a strange affinity for Poland, I love the place. When I was at Uni in Bradford the best chippy in the area was Polish! Just around the corner there was a Polish social club. We have a lot to thank them for and not just the food, the beer and the vodka.

 

[Strat-tastic]

And there is a really good polish Delhi in a part of Manchester .

I'm sure it's Indian