New BBC2 Back in time for dinner

MandM90

Went to mums house. Plentiful champagne, nibbles, roast (lentil and cashew for us), dessert, cheese and port, wine.

Sozzled.

duchy

MandM90 wrote: »

Went to mums house. Plentiful champagne, nibbles, roast (lentil and cashew for us), dessert, cheese and port, wine.

Sozzled.

Oh well you can always move the post to the right thread tomorrow

(at least we know you really are sozzled LOL)

Gigervamp

MandM90 wrote: »

Went to mums house. Plentiful champagne, nibbles, roast (lentil and cashew for us), dessert, cheese and port, wine.

Sozzled.

duchy wrote: »

Oh well you can always move the post to the right thread tomorrow

(at least we know you really are sozzled LOL)

Hehe! Don't forget to drink some water before going to bed.

meritaten

mum is the most least interested person in food that I know! but she made an effort at least in the seventies because she was told that 'it was easy cooking'. so we had fish fingers and Smash. Birds Eye beef burgers with her home made chips.............I remember on one occasion she had bought these new 'melamine' plates and put them on the plate warmer next to the 'eye level grill' and did the burgers - but the plates melted away!!!!!! and her burgers we called 'hockey pucks' as she was convinced they weren't properly cooked unless black all over!
She started Sunday lunch at 10.00 am - with the veg I mean. the meat had been cooked for hours on Saturday.
to be fair - many of my friends mothers were the same. boiled veg and cooked meat to inedible as they were dead scared of 'undercooking'. the seventies were the same as the sixties and fifties in our house - with the addition of fish fingers, Smash and Burgers. which mum wouldn't eat! and we had to force down!

thriftwizard

to be fair - many of my friends mothers were the same. boiled veg and cooked meat to inedible as they were dead scared of 'undercooking'.

Mine still has to be kept well away from cabbage. She will soak it for an hour or so in a strong Milton solution (Dad was a fairly organic gardener, probably because he couldn't afford chemicals - but she still does this with W&rose cabbage!) then cut it into quarters & boil it, with a teaspoon of bicarb in the water to preserve the colour, for half an hour or so until it's completely dead, then for another ten minutes or so to be on the safe side!

Thank Heaven for frozen peas...

lucyhope

thriftwizard wrote: »

Mine still has to be kept well away from cabbage. She will soak it for an hour or so in a strong Milton solution (Dad was a fairly organic gardener, probably because he couldn't afford chemicals - but she still does this with W&rose cabbage!) then cut it into quarters & boil it, with a teaspoon of bicarb in the water to preserve the colour, for half an hour or so until it's completely dead, then for another ten minutes or so to be on the safe side!

Thank Heaven for frozen peas...

My mum used to cook the sprouts till they were mush. (Yeuch!!) I only started eating them after a college catering course showed me how nice they could be.
We always had mince on washday, I can still see her leaning over the twin tub stirring it and adding more water.

Mojoworking

I only saw the second half of the 70s yesterday buy was hooked. Recognised lots if the decor from my nans that was passed to us whenever she got new as she was very fashionable.

I can't wait for the 80s. We used to have brains faggots that I loved the taste of but was miixed up in my head with the scene from indiana jones so I was always worried I was eating brains. Hated the boil in the bag cod my mum always had some in the freezer as a treat to herself.

Dd is on school dinners and came home describing arctic roll. Do they still make this. Again my nan always had 2 courses for tea and the afters I loved werr arctic rill and vienetta.

I know we were allowed cereal for tea as a treat but on reflection I don't think we had any food. It was 82/83 dad was unemployed. Neither are around to ask.

I remember we had mini bottles if milk lin school. My packed lunch was a butty a club or similar and a bwg of crisps. Ni drinks therr were water fountains in the playground.

Goldiegirl

I'm looking forward to the 1980's, as it was my first decade of marriage, and having a home of my own.


We often used to have Arctic Roll, and I remember something called Arctic Circles, which was a slice of Artic Roll dipped in chocolate and was yummy


We also had had Brain's faggots. If it wasn't bad enough eating 'brains', a faggot is also a very disparaging North American slang term, so all in all, it seems a strange thing to have eaten!

carriebradshaw

my mum wouldn't have a chip pan, she used to shallow fry chips in a large frying pan which took ages to cook enough for 6 people, as a result we never had many or very often.The pan used to bubble and spit somehing awful,don't know why she did it that way but she detested cooking full stop.She always turned up the heat too high and food like sausages or fish fingers would be burned on the outside and cold/still frozen in the middle!

honeythewitch

carriebradshaw wrote: »

my mum wouldn't have a chip pan, she used to shallow fry chips in a large frying pan which took ages to cook enough for 6 people, as a result we never had many or very often.The pan used to bubble and spit somehing awful,don't know why she did it that way but she detested cooking full stop.She always turned up the heat too high and food like sausages or fish fingers would be burned on the outside and cold/still frozen in the middle!

It sounds like it is a myth that the domestic science lessons we had up until the eighties produced competent and enthusiastic cooks?