childhood favourite

Funny you say that Morgana my Mum made a wicked corn beef hash pie with mushy peas I still make the pie occasionally but now I'm cutting trying to cut down on salt the last time I made it I wasn't so keen as it tasted really salty..

I don't recall a favourite meal. I remember saying that I didn't like food - I was an odd child! Because I was so skinny, mum tried to feed me up by making me a rice pudding every day for a while (naturally I liked that!).

Everything my mum made which was all very traditional!

I think my favourite was boiled gammon or bacon with parley sauce, potatoes and runner beans from the garden.
And sponge puddings and custard.

Shepherds Pie - still is but mine is much tastier than my mother's version ( she used to put venom in her food).

In cafes I always had baked beans on toast which I liked at home too. At home also fried mushrooms on toast, Toast and dripping, from the roast, was a treat on Sunday evenings with plenty of salt. Shepherd's pie made with lamb leftover from Sunday minced in the metal mincer.
By 6 I refused to drink milk but got through quite a lot of orange squash. Then Corona fizzy drinks started home delivery, not a good idea! My father had a 'Beer at Home Means Davenports' delivery of 6 bottles in a wooden case.
I was also enjoyed boiled gammon, especially the parsley sauce (parsley from the garden) which I mashed into my potatoes. When we had the Sunday roast I mashed the potatoes and gravy together.

Meat and potato pie. After fifty years of trying to recreate it I have now given up, ditto anything involving pastry.

Rabbit stew with seasoned Yorkshire pudding, along with cod cooked in the oven with parsley sauce, were probably the only two meals my mother cooked that I always enjoyed. She made meat and potato pie every week and I hated it because it was rather tasteless and she would make the pastry the way my father liked it - pallid and about an inch thick, with thin gravy. I was made to eat it, but swore once I left home I never would again. However.... it is now a family favourite, made my way! No thin gravy in this house.
The rabbit stew I only have now if we go out. DH cannot stand being anywhere near rabbit. It goes back to his childhood when he had to pick up from the station a brace of rabbits his grandmother used to put on the train from Brecon every week. To have to carry them home invariably made him sick.

My mum made a lovely sort of quiche which was absolutely packed with chopped fresh parsley, held together with an egg or two, and sometimes chopped bacon. Yum! Managed to re-create something similar while she was alive, but when I asked her about it, she made it up as she went along depending on what ingredients she had!

Cheese on toast - loved it, lived on it. This tells you something about Mum's cooking! She once made a rice pudding and the rice was not cooked - she served it out and we all started crunching away and grumbling and she got very cross and said she was tired of us grumbling about her cooking and we must eat it up - then she started on her helping!!! Oh dear.

She was OK at roast dinners, but the veg were more laundered than cooked - yuk!

Meat pie, mashed potato and dark, leafy greens. Mum made such good pastry, but I think the pie filling came from a tin. John West?

My mum's roast beef dinners were delicious. I also loved fish in parsley sauce with potatoes and frozen peas or runner beans grown by dad. We always had a pudding and I grumbled like mad when it was stewed apples and custard - boring - what an ungrateful child I was.

We had apple trees in the garden as a child so there was always mums apple pie with custard made with Birds custard powder. Yum

Spotted dick, treacle steamed pudding, jam roll poly. I loved puddings and I was the size of a stick, I still love puddings but I'm now quite a knobbly branch!

Rolly

My Mum was a very basic cook, meat and veg. She rarely made gravy (she didn't like it) and not very often puds. Nothing spicy or out of the usual.
My Nan's made my favourite meals, one made the most gorgeous fish and chips - fresh fish, her own batter and crispy chips with fluffy insides. She also made lovely roasts and fab apple pies, I have tried but my pastry never turn out the same. She did teach me how to make Victoria sponge using eggs as weight measurement, I still make them same way.
My other Nan used to make a lovely lamb stew, I went to her house for dinners when I was at Junior school and was always happy to smell that when I walked through the door.

Steamed fruit puddings, apple or plum. I loved Yorkshire pudding which we had as a starter with lashings of meaty gravy. I also enjoyed fresh veg which was always seasonal and full of flavour unlike a lot of fruit and veg we have now. Not sure if it's memory playing tricks though.

My husband makes a wonderful rabbit stew, yummy.

christinefrance

I want a plum sponge pudding and custard now

Oh dear, I used to be able to run off all those calories

My mum used to fry bacon and then add baked beans to the pan and serve it with mashed potatoes. Delicious.

My mum used to cook the baked beans in the bacon fat too.
Delicious!

I could eat it now!

My Mum made lamb stew as well. Best end of neck of lamb and root veg all cooked for a couple of hours on the hob. Left to cool and then the fat taken off the top, the meat removed and the veg mashed into the gravy. The meat was put back and oh it was lovely!

Yellow split pea and bacon soup, just loved it with thick white crusty bread and butter. Tried many times to cook it but it never turns out the same. Also steamed pudding, in fact I might try that today.

As soon as I knew where meat came from, I refused to eat any...except for breaded veal escalopes and otherwise only pasta and vegetables. Strange child that I was!

My Italian mother's kitchen always created wonderful food, however, on a small budget, and the colours and aromas tempted even me, although I avoided meat. When I think back, that kitchen was heaven to be in. I have not inherited my mother's culinary talent, sadly.