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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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We all have a food or dish our parents cooked that lives with us now as comfort food dont we?
What’s yours? What did your mum or day make you that was awesome? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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My Auntie used to make something called bacon & cheese dip
I'm not sure if it was a thing back then or something she concocted
I remember it being melted cheese mixed with milk to make the sauce, then lots of pepper and rashers of fried bacon dropped in it
You were given a plate of liberally buttered white bread to make butties with and dip the sauce up with
It cannot have possibly been healthy, but by Christ it was delish |
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By *929Man
over a year ago
newcastle |
My dad rarely cooked but when he did it was always fritters and egg not sure I remeber him ever cooking anything else haha.
My mam and dad grew up poor and carried on most of the eating habits they had into adulthood just out of habit, we ate rabbit very often and home made chips most nights |
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My mum was the best cook ever. I loved her stews, all of them. She planned her meals well. We always knew what type of meal to expect every day of the week like if it was going to be red meat, chicken fish, vegetarian etc. Her cakes were legendary too, especially her walnut one. I miss it all but most of all her. |
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"My dad rarely cooked but when he did it was always fritters and egg not sure I remeber him ever cooking anything else haha.
My mam and dad grew up poor and carried on most of the eating habits they had into adulthood just out of habit, we ate rabbit very often and home made chips most nights "
Nothing wrong with rabbit. Not so popular here but very much so in other countries like Spain, Portugal, Greece etc |
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By *929Man
over a year ago
newcastle |
"My dad rarely cooked but when he did it was always fritters and egg not sure I remeber him ever cooking anything else haha.
My mam and dad grew up poor and carried on most of the eating habits they had into adulthood just out of habit, we ate rabbit very often and home made chips most nights
Nothing wrong with rabbit. Not so popular here but very much so in other countries like Spain, Portugal, Greece etc "
We loved it mate we had it roasted with gravy and a bit pie crust on the side my dad got into hunting at an early age as was a way of acquiring protein food and making a bit money selling the ones he didn’t keep for eating |
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Absolutely nothing, my mother threw everything in a chip pan that probably didn't have a clean for a few years and by everything I mean everything you'd cut upen a burger and be squirted with chip pan fat.
Pot me off food for a long time.
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"Not my mum but my grandma used to do lots but mutton stew and stuffed marrow. You can hardly get mutton these days"
Similar, they were from very humble background like a lot of east enders at the time.. It was about maximum calories to sustain hard work and making it stretch as far as possible as money was hard earned. Hearts, liver, kidneys, pies and stews with pearl barley and dumplings and root veg. Suet, stodgy puddings.
Trouble is if youre less physical... It piles on the pounds (or kilos) |
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"We all have a food or dish our parents cooked that lives with us now as comfort food dont we?
What’s yours? What did your mum or day make you that was awesome? "
I dont know about awesome but I do recall spending what seemed like two or three weeks, while my mother spent time in hospital, being fed every day on my father’s attempt at Lancashire hotpot. God! That was grim.
It is not like I cannot eat Lancashire hotpot at all these days. If it is well made I can even almost enjoy it, but no matter how spectacular it is, it brings back those memories of that gastronomic torture.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Nothing my mum was the worst cook. I think we ate spaghetti bolognaise about 3 times a week because that was the only thing she knew how to cook. The rest of the time it was whatever could be thrown in the oven for 20 minutes  |
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By *otSoPoshWoman
over a year ago
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Gonna ruin this for you now Woody... absolutely not. My mum was an awful cook. Really bad. Terrible.
But my Nanna was fabulous. She made the best dinners. And I hope I do justice to her beef n ale pie. That was the nuts |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Gonna ruin this for you now Woody... absolutely not. My mum was an awful cook. Really bad. Terrible.
But my Nanna was fabulous. She made the best dinners. And I hope I do justice to her beef n ale pie. That was the nuts"
My mum wasn’t great, (Ive said this before) …
Bug bc what I did realise from her was the benefits of one pot cooking. Just less washing up. 
So I make a beef chilli because of her, but much much better.  |
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By *otsossieMan
over a year ago
local, but not too local |
" my mother threw everything in a chip pan that probably didn't have a clean for a few years "
This. Burgers like rugby balls and a strange wax on the outside of the pan. Eventually it caught fire.
Bizarrely both parents outlived their “healthy” siblings by a huge amount. |
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By *otSoPoshWoman
over a year ago
In a ball gown because that's how we roll in N. Devon |
"Gonna ruin this for you now Woody... absolutely not. My mum was an awful cook. Really bad. Terrible.
But my Nanna was fabulous. She made the best dinners. And I hope I do justice to her beef n ale pie. That was the nuts
My mum wasn’t great, (Ive said this before) …
Bug bc what I did realise from her was the benefits of one pot cooking. Just less washing up.
So I make a beef chilli because of her, but much much better. "
I love a one pot meal 
And now I really want a beef chilli |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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My dad was the better cook and did the cooking when he was around. He made an absolutely delicious curried lamb with rice and peas and steamed veg. Literally gorgeous. But fuck that [redacted] |
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By *ullyMan
over a year ago
Near Clacton |
Not my mum but my grandma used to do lots but mutton stew and stuffed marrow. You can hardly get mutton these days
Try as might I can't get marrow, anywhere, not seen it for sale in any shop or marketplace. We used to have them from of our vegetable gardens, and when I grew up and moved to Norfolk then Suffolk they were sometimes for sale at the roadside or in the farms shops. I Used to do homemade mince curry in thick marrow rings, Mmmmmm. |
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Nothing whatsoever..my mother was an horrendous cook and my father didn't bother.. I'm the kid that liked school dinners so much I had seconds.. it was gourmet food compared to what was created at home  |
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By *4bimMan
over a year ago
Farnborough Hampshire |
my mother was fantastic.
worked 3 jobs to make sure we had everything we needed while she went without.
meals were good, pretty standard stuff but the cost of things limited what you could put on your plate.
taught me that if i ever came into money and i could help i should.
so when i go to breakfast and i hear people talking about how things arent so good they often find the bill paid.
im long gone by then, i just hope when its my time to be judged, those that do will look a bit kinder than they normally would. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"My grandma used to do steak with a sauce made from whole grain mustard and cream, with new potatoes, broad beans, and broccoli.
I still love it now "
Bloody hell. I had beans in toast most nights.
Is your mum Gordon Ramsay? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"My grandma used to do steak with a sauce made from whole grain mustard and cream, with new potatoes, broad beans, and broccoli.
I still love it now
Bloody hell. I had beans in toast most nights.
Is your mum Gordon Ramsay? "
That was my grandma! She also used to do fresh rainbow trout with almonds which contributed to my absolute hatred of fish as an adult I think 
My mum made great lasagne |
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My Indian grandmother cooked a proper curry. Took her ages. She died and never wrote down any of the the recipes bc she said she never knew them. I didn't eat a curry after for years. None of her children knew either so died with her
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"My mum could burn water! X"
Oh that was my sibling. They boiled an egg in a pan without any water. Insert *facepalm emoji
I’m convinced I was adopted. |
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By *imbo59seMan
over a year ago
North Norfolk area |
Dad never cooked.
Mum, boiled vegetables to destruction.....put me off vegetables for years!
She did however, have a few "signature" dishes... Rabbit & (belly of) Pork stew.....with Pearl Barley
Sausage & Bacon pudding....yummy.
Christmas Dinner was always...."interesting"!! |
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My gran made the most amazing scotch broth - which as kids we all hated  Now I love making my own version
My mum did a great bread & butter pudding but also used to feed us microwaved beef burgers…. |
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"My Indian grandmother cooked a proper curry. Took her ages. She died and never wrote down any of the the recipes bc she said she never knew them. I didn't eat a curry after for years. None of her children knew either so died with her
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Oh this is so sad!!! I always ask for recipes now - I’m not the greatest cook but someone in the family might be xx
J x |
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By *a LunaWoman
over a year ago
South Wales |
My mum does an amazing Sausage Casserole.
She also made an amazing Corned Beef Hash, but alas I went off that during my first pregnancy and the hankering for it never returned.
My gramp did an amazing cooked Sunday dinner.
My Nan made amazing Trifles that had everything that you’d want in a trifle in it.
Ah….. I’ve gone down a food memory lane |
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"What did your parents cook?"
Every last single bit of deliciousness and vitamins out of whatever they threw in the pan.
They cooked food so that it no longer resembled food.
It was a sort of grey, microbial swamp-sludge with "bits" in it.
Had DNA testing been available at the time, I suspect that forensically it might have been meat. Meat with tubes in it. I never did work out what the tubes were for.
My father never cooked. He did not know how to. My mother didn't like cooking. Grandma however was an amazing cook. She'd let me help and get stuck in mixing flour and making cakes and making a hell of a mess. I loved it.
Mother came in one day to see myself and Grandma in the kitchen. I was covered in flour and the place was a mess. She asked "What the hell are you doing?" and Grandma said "He's having fun. You leave him alone." Mother shut up.
And Grandma instilled in me a love of cooking, which I still have to this day.
Over 100+ cookbooks in the library.
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By *r_PinkMan
over a year ago
london stratford |
1st thing my dad taught me to cook was Shnitzel and chips (that's chicken fillet flattened, coated in breadcrumbs) and the chips where cut, boiled, fried until they just started turning, taken out and left to cool down before re-frying on really hot oil.
Then he taught me special fried rice.
I only wish I learnt some of my grandparents dishes too as they where delish! |
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Most of my family was good cooks parents and grandparents so its hard to choose a favorite though it gave me a lifelong love for cooking.
Think if i had to choose just one my Dads cheese/bacon and tomato omelette.
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Used to depend on what road kill my dad brought home ..... seriously I remember my dad skinning rabbits in the kitchen smell of them was horrific, and sometimes there was lead shot in them also remember boiled bacon joints, liver, pheasants and all kinds of stuff like that that smelt disgusting, |
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