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Our school dinners were pretty good- it was a few years ago though!
Fish and chips on Friday were especially good!
Bubble and squeak is one of my faves! I love good simple 'British' food and I do a mean fish pie, and an even better shepherd's pie, where I put in baked beans-Yum!
I'm perfectly happy with a traditional roast chicken or beef on a Sunday, and I often do a pork casserole that my daughter loves.
Tonight I'm on my tod and I'm having a (lamb) Barnsley chop with roasted veg- Double Yum!!
Stovies.
Mince and totties
Dumpling.. the sweet type with silver sixpences inside
Fried ham and cabbage with totties.
Steak Pie mashed tottie and musy peas. with oxo gravy
Liver and Onions
Stew and doughballs
Lentil soup with leeks, carrots Ham.
Haddock and chips with mushy peas
for special occassions
Balmoral Chicken - Ingredients:
2 large skinless chicken breasts (pref. organic)
85g (approx) haggis
6 rashers back bacon, smoked or unsmoked
10g melted butter
salt & pepper or Braemar Chicken with black pudding.
We both love fish'n'chips and finally found a great "Irish" pub around here that has the best--after a lot of searching and testing.
Love shepherd's pie--dh makes it with the union jack scratched onto the top. But we make it with minced beef because lamb is expensive in the US and hard to find. Did you know that when made with BEEF it is called cottage pie, not shepherd's. For obvious reasons.
Bubble and squeak--like very much.
This year we finally found real mince for mince pies. It's almost impossible to find in the US and most people don't even know what you're talking about. I'm American but grew up with English grandparents and English-raised relatives so you always had mince pie for Christmas. We found some good mince in a British import shop this summer. (Yes, too lazy to make some from scratch.)
I miss mushy peas but can't find them here.
Yorkshire pudding--to die for. I have found the frozen kind recently over here.
I miss real licorice which we had as a kid with my grandparents. You get mostly fake stuff over here but in the UK I buy the real thing.
One of our Christmas candies was Bassett's Allsorts and I do like them, not in love with them, but LIKE them. I saw them here a few years ago but haven't noticed them lately.
We made Cornish pasties not long ago to take in the car. What a delicious-and complete-lunch! I've bought them in London for a quick meal too.
Chorley cakes in you live in the North. Yum.
My older relatives ate the black pudding, liver and onions, tripe, all that stuff.
Are you kidding? When I traveled there as a kid (in my 20s), I lost about 5 lbs, and I'm skinny! I'd never seen such crud in my life. Ugh.
I know many brilliant cooks in Britain. I don't know why restaurant food isn't better, altough there are some really excellent restaurants if you know where they are (often outside the villages in the middle of nowhere)
I love sticky toffee pudding, clootie dumpling, Cornish pasties, and Sunday roast. Those are all considered "old fashioned", aren't they?
Go to a potluck or a dinner party in Britain and you will eat some food that is excellent.
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! I'd never seen such crud in my life. Ugh.
