What did your parents feed you growing up?

[Pferdestarke]

My Mum would always do a roast on a Sunday. Often lamb supplied by my Grandad.

I remember bolognese and chilli etc, as well as bags of frozen Oriental Express chow mein.

Other than that, I can't remember.

Any nostalgic foods to remember?

[21TonyK]

Minced beef plate pie

Mince, onion and tomatoes fried and poured onto a plate, covered in a bit of pastry and baked. Served with frozen peas, mash and OXO gravy.

Other than that I spent most of my childhood growing up in hotels so whatever was on the menu, I do remember A LOT of Maggi French onion soup and always having a few chips covered in salt under the bar when I was working.

Scones as well, lots of scones and apple pie with Birds instant custard.

[Pferdestarke]

Why not in a pie dish I wonder?

Still, it sounds good. As do the salty chips.

[Muzzer79]

Egg and (home made) chips

Potato waffles

Fish fingers

Sunday was a roast.

We rarely had 'foreign' home-cooked food. My parents weren't particularly in to pasta, so we never had that, nor Indian.

We did like a chinese takeaway though.

[Shaw Tarse]

Tony, I could eat that now
Mum would feed us Brooklands Pie, (recipie handed down from Dad's mum, cheap at the time.)
Tin of corned beef.
Tin of tomatoes.
Tin of spaghetti.
Chop.
Top with mashed potatoes.
Bake.

[ali_kat]

Pie cooked on a tin plate here too (she also used pie dishes)
Spag Bol
Sausage/Bacon, egg & mash (made into a volcano) or sausage, peas & gravy with mash (made into a volcano)
Fish fingers
Cod & plum tomatoes (microwaved)
Chicken & celery casserole
Pork & pepper casserole
Gammon & parsley sauce
Pork/lamb chops

Loads of other stuff, but nothing spicy, Mum didn't 'do' spice

[Shaw Tarse]

ali_kat said:

Sausage/Bacon, egg & mash (made into a volcano) or sausage, peas & gravy with mash (made into a volcano)

Your mum was ace

[JungleJim]

Not so much what we did have (all the usual really) but what we didn't - i had never had curry or Chinese (takeway or restaurant) until I was 21-ish and working. Yes, I went to uni but never had it there either.

[jonny_bravo]

Mince sticks in my head,. only because I used to get to crank the handle of the Spong mincer,. feed some meat through,. then some onion to clean it,.

[opieoilman]

Mainly normal, traditional stuff (no curries, chilli, only Chinese was Uncle Bens Sweet and Sour), but being Cornish, a lot of pasties.

[rambo19]

Boiled bacon and pease pudding.
Suet puddings.
My 2 favourites from childhood.

[RVVUNM]

Friday was always mixed grill night.

[BS30]

Bread and pull-it

[21TonyK]

I remember having Chinese takeaway when I was about 9 or 10 (79/80) but my Dad wouldn't touch it. Loved their chips though. That was a reasonably regular thing. Eating out was normally a local pub, jumbo sausage and chips in a basket.

Mums favourite for a special occasion was egg mayonnaise with a pinch of paprika on top which morphed into prawn cocktail in the late 80's.

I introduced them to Indian food in the 90's and my Dad to medium rare steak about 10 years ago after a lifetime of cremated steaks and roast beef. Still won't touch chicken on the bone though

[Tickle]

Two of the things that stick in my head are:

Chips cooked in a lard, done in a proper chip pan. I also remember getting a telling off for writing my initials in the hardened fat!


The other thing was grilled fillet steak served in the metal dish it was cooked in, with buttered bread to mop up with.

[Dand E Lion]

My mother was a great and extremely adventurous cook for the time, but caravaning in my grandparents' caravan means I am hugely nostalgic about Vesta Paella and Chow Mein - haven't eaten one in thirty years though!

[BrabusMog]

Brilliant thread!

I used to love all of these, cooked expertly by mum

Chicken casserole with rice instead of potatoes (my request)
Coq au Vin (again with rice)
Beef Stroganoff
Spaghetti Bolognese (leftovers turned into chile con carne)
Tagliatele Carbonara (with chicken and bacon)
Home made pizza
Roast every Sunday
Mashed potato with chopped up fried bacon and leftover Sunday roast gravy mixed in (always on a Monday)
Potato smilies, turkey drummers and spaghetti hoops (used to get this as a treat after football training)
Pot Noodle Roll

My dad only ever cooked once for us when my mum was away with friends, he made us turkey escalopes with rice, no sauce! Driest thing we'd even eaten, it was always a take away after that "attempt"

I'm sure there are many others, but those ones just spring to mind.

Edited by BrabusMog on Friday 6th November 17:59

[thesyn]

Toad in the hole, happy days!

[thesyn]

Toad in the hole, happy days!

[BrabusMog]

Toad in the hole, great shout! Home made batter as well. So many things I'll be cooking next week, the missus is going to be baffled