Your food memories please.

bossymoo

At my grans in school holidays with my brother and cousins, tomato sausage and speckled chips. Never occurred to any of us that they were speckled cos she rarely (if ever) cleaned the chip pan :eek:

She also made a mean "meat and tatey pie" usually followed by rhubarb from the garden dipped in cups of sugar. Good old stodge.

psso

We kids used to have a pie -either scotch or mince -with peas on top every Saturday tea time, on side tables in front of the telly while the football scores were on. This was the only time we didn`t sit at the kitchen table to eat. Brother used to sit and chant the scores along with the announcer.

Another memory is having chicken noodle soup, out of a packet, cooked on the gas stove when we were on camping holidays. Mum reckoned we needed something warm before we went to bed.

building_with_lego

When we were under the weather mum would make us 'sailor's egg'; a couple of eggs and butter cooked together in a handle-less mug (it was important not to use a proper mug), with cubes of buttered bread stirred in at the end. This was sold to us as the way sailors ate their eggs, as a boiled egg would roll out of the eggcup in stormy seas :rotfl: This is my proper comfort food even now.

My dad will mention Christmas pudding sandwiches every Boxing Day, since that was his father's habitual Boxing Day lunch. Sliced, cold and served between buttered white bread I believe, although I've not tried it!

Someone on the food shame thread mentioned Fray Bentos pies and in particular that thick, soggy layer of pastry between the filling and the top which doesn't crisp. They view it as the highlight of the pie; for me that is the main reason not to eat FB pies! _pale_

Pandora_2

My Mum's cheese straws are the most beautiful things in the world!! It's literally just puff pastry with cheese, and she would makes hundreds of them and I would just sit and eat all of them in one go!! When I got a bit older she let me try her special grown up ones with paprika sprinkled on top, and they were even more gorgeous!!! Even though I'm more than old enough at 31 to make them myself, I never do because they just aren't as good as Mum's!! I still force her to make them when I go and visit her, and I STILL eat the lot in one go!! Can't wait till my next visit in October!!!

Pandora_2

Oh, another one! At college, they used to do pitta breads with melted cheese on top - a bit like cheese on toast - and they were divine!! They were the greasiest things in the world though! We used to use up tons of napkins every day soaking up all the grease! lol!! Have tried for years to try and make them myself but it never works right

And of course, banana butties!! Has to be cheap white plastic bread, with loads of butter and sliced banana - never mashed!!!!! lol!!!

lollipopsarah

Ah memories, you knew you were getting better when you could smell mums mince and mash cooking - divine!
At school for me it was mince cobbler, ooooooooo you could smell it in the queue to the hall, I can smell and taste it now and wish I could find a recipe for it.
oh and rice pudding - me and my dad fighting over the skin on top - yummy.
xx

piecemeal

If I was ill, Mum would go down to the village shop and buy lucozade and an individual block of vanilla ice cream. Yuk to lucozade but the ice cream was cornish I think and delicious.

Mum wasn't much of a cook but she made a great beef curry using mince. It was the most exotic thing I could imagine, until....

When my eldest brother was in his early 20's and lived in the cosmopolitan world of 70's Great Yarmouth, he came home and cooked us all an otherworldly treat; spaghetti bolognaise complete with cardboard parmesan in a little tub, Garlic? Green peppers? Whatever next!

marmitepotato

Mums home made fish cakes. Steamed cod, flaked into mash with loads of parsley. Shaped into 'cakes', coated in flour and fried. Served with baked beans and tomato sauce. Yummy!

Steve059

My Mum's oxtail stew. Simmering away in an enormous stockpot, with the bones floating in it. I always imagined that it looked like dinosaur stew.

snookey

My dad made a very hot spicy soup that we would have in the winter. I remember coming in from school having trudged through foot high snow and thawing out with soup in hand.
Sugar butties,tomatoe ketchup butties and jam butties .