War time recipes

YoungBlueEyes

Oh and you’ve to feed 7 with it, cos we’ve got the two wee girls from next door round tonight since they fed our kids the other night! 

Gooo! 

RobM99

YoungBlueEyes said:

Oh and you’ve to feed 7 with it, cos we’ve got the two wee girls from next door round tonight since they fed our kids the other night! 

Gooo! 

Luxury! We 'ad 14 kids from t' next street that hadn't eaten nowt since 1928!

YoungBlueEyes

They ate in 1928? Luxury! We were eating the shirts off each others backs (not that we were wearing shirts cos that woulda been LUXURY!)

But we did always get pudding. Well I say pudding, we were licking coal dust up off t’roads…..

RobM99

Coal dust? You were lucky! We, all 28 of us used to pass nuclear waste from t'local power station round and inhale gamma rays for tea. Tell the kids of today and they'd never believe you!

YoungBlueEyes

Nuclear waste? How lucky were you - least you were warm! 

RobM99

Aye. When I say waste, it were the ashes from Chernobyl reactor B. We 'ad to eat next to fire extinguisher for fear of spontaneously combusting. But we were' appy!

YoungBlueEyes

Aye they were ‘appy times  *sigh*

Brie

You lot are a hoot!!  

As for small portions - I have this with my OH who wants me to eat the same as him - despite an obvious size difference.  And if we are eating out he thinks I should be getting not the same but similar.  So if he has the pork chops I should have the chicken.  My compromise (when I compromise) is to tell him that I'm getting something I really like the looks of.  Recently in Dublin we stopped for lunch in a pub and he went for the corn beef and mash (e25?) & I opted for the seafood chowder (e10?).  That's all I needed and wanted and it was excellent.  His dish had 2 massive slabs of beef and at least 2 large potatoes worth of mash.  But sometimes that's what is necessary - to look at what small dishes are available on the menu and order something nice.  I've been known to annoy him by ordering a starter and a salad while he's get a starter and a main.  He's finally learned that I mean it when I say "but that's what I want".  I've even gone all out and ordered 2 starters instead of getting a main as well.  It depends on the restaurant.  And I will ask in a restaurant to change/leave off things I know I won't like or enjoy or simply shouldn't have.  Soup but no bread with it thanks!  Salad with that not chips.  Burger with no bun.  I end up enjoying things much more. 

As for cookbooks - my mom had an ancient in the 1960s Kate Aitken's book which had everything anyone needed to know about cooking.  I got my own copy around 1980 and still have it.  Cooking times for meat, how to make a corn starch pudding (marvellous!!) and lots of things about jam that I have never in my life managed to conquer.   

Brie

Oh and I meant to ask - what's the matter with snoek?  If it's a type of mackerel, I think that would be nice.  Was it because it was tinned?

PipneyJane

YoungBlueEyes said:

Yes Rob, I think they should be! Occasionally when I ask for a smaller portion they'll direct me to the "kid's menu". I feel like shouting at them - we haven't come to a nice pub so I can eat fish fingers and beans! I want steak and ale pie and mustardy mash but I don't need a while lot of it cos I'm not a fatty!!

It's a good way to sort out the actual homemade menus from the pre-portioned ping meals that are just labelled as home made tho. The places with decent staff and true home made meals will often oblige with a smile. 

Bigger isn't always better, sometimes it's just more. 

Me too, @YoungBlueEyes.   I have the "DH Plan Diet" since my DH will hoover up anything that I don't eat, even when we're out.  Seriously, he has hollow legs.

- Pip