Home Cooking

LOL I bet your supper was just as delicious as my casserole is p1ke - well almost! lol I am definitely going to try and make your pastry dish , I may even cut and paste it! xxxx

Oooh yes. Cut and paste it. It's far too big to eat on it's own!

You wait until I have has supper and then tempt me with your scrummy casserole!! LOL. I shall remember this. The cheese dish is very east. 200g mascarpone cheese, 100g of Cheddar and 100g parmesan. Mix with some lightly fried onion and spread on a sheet of puff pastry. Leave an inch all round for a side to grow. Place sliced Beefheart tomatoes on top and cook at 200 degrees for about 35 minutes. Then turn the oven down to 120 for another 20 mins and serve. I can guarantee that you will be left with nothing. XX

Thank you so much! I had the right idea on most of them, since they've shown up in some of the books I read. Bubble and squeak left me completely baffled, though, so thank you very much! I can read between the lines for the tart "on the pull", lol!

I always say "two great nations; divided by a common language"! I have no idea who put the mature tag on. Mine are Yummy and Scrummy! I'm just so darn imaginative. LOL I'd be delighted if you butted in. My myLot day is usually divided into three: Brits, ANZACS and other Europeans. Indians and Philipinos, and North America. I notice that my language changes with each group! OK. Meaning: Blood pudding: A sausage made of (usually) pigs blood and fat (sometimes a little entrails too). Usually fried gently. It should be soft in the mouth. An acquired taste and one that I've only just got the taste for. Normally you would have it with breakfast. Part of the "Full Fried Breakfast" of which there are regional and national variations. In England it would be: Sausage, Bacon, fried or scrambled egg, plum tomatoes, Black (Blood) Pudding, mushrooms and fried bread. You can also add baked beans and hash browns. My grandfather had this for breakfast every day of his life and lived to 86. Bubble & Squeak: Fried leftovers from sunday roast lunch: Typically mashed potatoes, cabbage, onions, peas, fried together and served with cold sliced meat from the joint and gravy. Cuppa: As in "a cup of" tea. A cuppa invariably means a drink of tea, although I have heard it used in relation to coffee (always instant) and chocolate. Tart: A small shortcrust pastry case filled with jam. Can also be filled with fruits - apple being the most popular. There are variations on this though. A Bakewell tart is a pastry base filled with an almond sponge with a layer of raspberry jam between the sponge and pastry. Can also mean a woman dressed poorly and looking like she's "on the pull"!! Hope that helps.

I love pecan pie but haven't had it in years Steph. I don't know what cherry crisp is. Is it a sort of tart?

My girls will eat a whole plate of cabbage and gravy if you let them but Jacob not so good but he eats a lot of fruit instead. Ellie :D

Children that love cabbage! You are clearly a Delia Ellie. The only thing that Clare will do with cabbage is carry it to the compost heap! We had roast chicken last night. My favourite too. Although I'm not averse to a fry up and yours sounds delicious. I have just started to enjoy black pudding. But it has to be cooked just so.

when my sister and i were young my mum hadn't got much food in the cupboard so for my dad as well she put together a tin of spaghetti which some cooked bacon cheese mushrooms and onions then layered it all ontop of the spagetti with mashed potato and a sprinkle of cheese on top put it in the oven to heat up mmm it was gorgeous and in those days cheap to make but now its quite expensive as you can imagine but thats been our family recipe handed down to my siters now my daughter and probably will be handed down to mine and my neices daughter etc-but it is a lovely dish especially with sausages too and very filling

Oh Littleowl. I bet that your bubble and squeak is delicious. But I have an aversion to it. My mother used to make it on a monday for tea. She's a great cook, but her B&S is the pits. She always burnt it. I've not been able to eat it since. Spaghetti pie? What does that consist of; I assume spaghetti of course, but what else please?

So I know what you will be buying on your next trip home! I was once given a US Army field ration of peanut butter. Well, apart from being 5% peanut and 95% sugar, it was a solution. For years I thought that was how Americans liked their peanut butter. Then I worked out why I had been given it!!

I don't need the recipe Nanna. Yorkshires I can make, but I've not tried an egg custard. Although I love them.

Oopsy sorry, macaroni and cheese!

Love it home made. Loathe it from a tin. Thanks Skinny.

I've been told but I have forgotten what Mac is.

Not deep fried wedding cake Cyn? LOL. The soup sounds good. Maybe tomorrow.

Only if you help me grovel properly! You know, crawling around lashing our own backs, unworthy souls that we are, would she please make us some chicken and pie? ROFL!!!

That sounds fantastic. I'm not a great fryer, but I keep meaning to try fried chicken. I might even buy a proper deep fat fryer to do it in as we'll need Red Adair (do I sense a "who"? there) to come and deal with the spillage. May I join Irish in a request please. What's Georgey Porgey Pie?

Thank you for that. I shall give it a go soon. I don't go to KFC etc on animal welfare grounds. Or bird welfare grounds specifically. If you knew how those birds were raised and slaughtered - bashing their brains out against the wall will do apparently. I eat as a bare minimum free range poultry, and preferably organic. Just my funny way but I sleep more easily that way.

That sounds delicious Hatley. I'm very find of fettucini and meat balls myself. What time's tea?

Why have I never thought of making pies from the leftover meat! Doh!! So easy and scrummy. Thank you.

I am glad you will try it. They really are so good. Enjoy

I know exactly what you mean. There's something very comforting about that sort of food on a cold crisp day.

That sounds a great midweek dish. Thank you.

Sounds good. Thank you.