This is one reason why Old Stylers cook meals from scratch and avoid ready meals!

misskaytee

Well pig cheek, and trotters feature quite often these days on tv shows, great british dish used these ingredients the other day.

There are certain things i wont eat, just because i know what it is or whats in it, both these ingredients i wouldn't chose to eat, along with black pudding, all offal.....eewwww, going to leave it there i think!!


Yes i already know, that others will reply how tasty it all is, but NO! its not for me.

sonnythecat

I cook from scratch every day and LOVE it, but I draw the line at poached, er, head.

radiohelen

I have forgotten how to cook but usually only after a bottle of wine! :beer:

londonirish_3

I am very good at baking from scratch but when it comes to cooking I think , or thought I cooked from scratch, but I dont really, yes I prep meat and veg etc, but then pop, open a jar or packet. I think possibly the only two things I have ever cooked from scratch are roasts and shepherds pies. I wouldnt know how to make spag bol or a curry from scratch, no idea at all. I now intend to remedy this

espresso21

I love to cook and to use proper unrefined ingredients; can't say I would be happy with the idea of a pig's head though. As for mutton, I just wish I could find it anywhere. I used to use it in curries as it has the strength of flavour to complement the spices and also holds together well after long cooking, but I can't find it anywhere. My butcher says that no-one wants to buy it hence, they don't bother to get it.

pretz_2

Sorry but I have to agree this board is full of people that definitely haven't forgotten how to cook, but just to put my 2 pence in I have to pay £5 a head for my pigs heads and can very happily take it a part myself as pig cheeks ragu is lush and a very big family tradition in our house oh and just to add I know what all those ingredients are and how to cook with them and I'm only 25. I think the whole cooking thing is more a case of it your parents cooked you cook although some break the mould lol

nobodyspecial

Well my grandmother was so oldstyle she had to be seen to be believed, but she would have boiled her own head before a pigs head, hated the smell lol I agree with Pink-winged, you're talking to the converted. Most people on OS will cook from scratch. Not wanting to cook certain items does not exclude people from that description. My favourite dish is pig's liver: I don't have to fight too many off in the supermarket

Almo

As so many others have alluded to, I think that not cooking the items in the OP doesn't mean that people can't cook. I wouldn't cook them but I cook from scratch daily. I'm 27.

This is a bit of a sweeping generalisation but I wonder how many parents who have been forced to eat something which at the time was not considered desirable (for example, a pig's head) don't want their children to eat it because they feel that they want to do better by their children? My grandma grew up very poor in Liverpool but once she was finally in a better financial position she definitely stopped eating certain things that she had previously been forced to cook for economic reasons but had also liked.

I'd like to make it abundantly clear that I don't think there is anything wrong with pig's head, I'm just wondering about the psychology of what people cook and using that as an example.

Gigervamp

Mutton is tricky to get hold of, but it can be found, just not usually in your local butchers.

Try Bigbarn to find local producers. Also, food festivals and farmers markets often have stalls selling mutton.

My family prefer mutton to lamb as it's not as greasy.

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Almo wrote: »

As so many others have alluded to, I think that not cooking the items in the OP doesn't mean that people can't cook. I wouldn't cook them but I cook from scratch daily. I'm 27.

This is a bit of a sweeping generalisation but I wonder how many parents who have been forced to eat something which at the time was not considered desirable (for example, a pig's head) don't want their children to eat it because they feel that they want to do better by their children? My grandma grew up very poor in Liverpool but once she was finally in a better financial position she definitely stopped eating certain things that she had previously been forced to cook for economic reasons but had also liked.

I'd like to make it abundantly clear that I don't think there is anything wrong with pig's head, I'm just wondering about the psychology of what people cook and using that as an example.

none of us were `forced` to eat pigs head. Those of us who were fortunate enough to live in families with parents who cared enough about diet, used pigs head as it was cheap and nutritious. There was limited availability of lots of foods, not like today.

You need to link up psychology of cooking with love and care for the family and not with cost. Many who can afford a good diet do not eat well. Many who have not much money eat a wonderful diet, coolking from scratch.