A run round the table and a bite at the door

Pollycat

SailorSam wrote: »

Who in their right mind would come up with a name like that ?

Mr & Mrs Brain perhaps......? :rotfl:

NewShadow

Pollycat wrote: »

Mr & Mrs Brain perhaps......? :rotfl:

Herbert Hill Brain, son of a grocer, was born in 1864...

http://mrbrains.co.uk/history/

pelirocco

meritaten wrote: »

in true MSE style I make my own faggots! they are so easy now I have finally invested in a food processor! if anyone wants the recipe just say and I will post it.

We had a butchers shop near us(Palmers) and mum used to send me over on 'faggot day' to buy six faggots, one for each of us kids, one for mum and two for dad. and god knows how many tins of 'Morton' peas (marrowfat processed peas) she used for our 'faggot and peas' supper.
I have tried to 'recreate' their faggots - but never managed to replicate the taste.

We used to have a butcher's called palmers

Winchelsea

I grew up with bread and pullit too.
And my children remember always being told "wait and see". Not very imaginative on my part, but it kept them going for a bit longer!

Quick comfort food - pasta, with a pan of whatever veg are lurking in the freezer or in tins, cooked in stock or whatever, with loads of grated cheese on top. Or, a lovely thick and spicy dhal with rice.

room512

My OH comes from the Midlands and loves faggots. My mum was horrified as when she was little that's what the dog ate! (she comes from the South)

Toonie

My Mum is German and whenever we asked what was for dinner she said "kinderfragen mit zucker bestreut" which roughly translates as "children's question have sugar sprinkled."

My store cupboard meal is

A tin of butter beans
A handful of barley and red lentils
A tin of tomatoes
A tin of water (though sometimes two)
A chicken stock cube
A sprinkle of mixed herbs

All chucked together is my pyrex hob-friendly caserole dish and cooked together for 45 minutes on a simmer. If I'm feeling fancy a dash of soy sauce and a sprinkle of allspice.

Effyb4

NewShadow wrote: »

That's what my nan always used to say if you asked 'What's for dinner?'

Given I'm dying at the moment *cough, cough* I can't sleep as my everything hurts.

I'm nostalgic for the food my grandmother used to cook, and I was thinking about the time I managed to pry the recipe for her amazing Irish stew from her - Given she was born and raised in Ireland, I guessed it must be fairly authentic, and I'd like to share it with you all now...

1 tin stewed steak
1 tin mince and onion
1 tin potatoes
1 tin carrots
1 tin peas
1 tin oxtail soup
1 tin baked beans
2 tins of hot water
Between 2 and 4 stock cubes (her ideal mix was 2 beef and 2 veg)
Serve with lots of bread and butter

:rotfl:

It makes around 8 - 10 bowls. Nana probably made it two or three times a month and until I asked her, when I was 17 or so, I never knew it was all from tins.

I've just costed it up at tesco and, excluding the bread and butter, it comes to a grand total of £4.39 - or around 50p a bowl.

It might sound laughable, but the reason I was thinking about it was because I made myself a beef stew this weekend - It's always been my 'I'm dying' food, and it's cost me about £8 for roughly the same amount (brisket, carrots, onion, swede, leek, potato, cabbage, and a drab of left over cauliflower).

Plus it's left me with a loads of odds and ends my lurgy-ridden mind is in no fit state to deal with (and I had to go out in the rain to my them:().

I haven't made my nan's stew since I was in uni. The ingredients were always in the 'red cross' parcel she'd send over, those and lots of custard creams;).

It got me through some tight spots.

I was wondering, does anyone else have any completely store cupboard recipes?

Meals made just from tins, or things that never really go off, that reasonably resemble an actual meal.

This sounds like the sort of meal my family will love, so will give it a try. I just wondered how long you cook it for. I normally make fresh meals from scratch.

NewShadow

Effyb4 wrote: »

This sounds like the sort of meal my family will love, so will give it a try. I just wondered how long you cook it for. I normally make fresh meals from scratch.

As it's all tins, all you actually have to do is heat it through.

I tend to chuck in any components I have fresh (sometimes I have the meat, or some leftover veg ends, spuds etc), make uptake shortfall in tins, then just leave it on in the slow cooker until it's all cooked.

NewShadow

Toonie wrote: »

My Mum is German and whenever we asked what was for dinner she said "kinderfragen mit zucker bestreut" which roughly translates as "children's question have sugar sprinkled."

My store cupboard meal is

A tin of butter beans
A handful of barley and red lentils
A tin of tomatoes
A tin of water (though sometimes two)
A chicken stock cube
A sprinkle of mixed herbs

All chucked together is my pyrex hob-friendly caserole dish and cooked together for 45 minutes on a simmer. If I'm feeling fancy a dash of soy sauce and a sprinkle of allspice.

That seems it would come out like a barley risotto? I'd want to dump some shredded mozzarella on top I think.

NewShadow

Successfully experimented this weekend - root veg mash - 1 potato, 2 carrots, half a swede, and a small parsnip, drop of butter and a splash of milk.

in 500g takeaway tubs freezes well, and cooks from frozen in 6 minutes (stir after 3).

Paired with low fat quorn sausage - quick, easy, healthy, tasty.