Another wonderful post, beautiful lady. I too am a feeder, don’t like it when someone crosses my threshold and doesn’t get at least something to eat and drink. My mum, God rest her, was the same. For her it was always bacon and tomato sandwiches, they were yummy and one thing my kids agree I make just like hers. She even kept bacon in ‘just in case’ and if it wasn’t eaten it ended up in a bacon and egg pie. I no longer eat meat, I usually provide whatever I have in though. My brother turned up early one mirning and left with a tummy full of two different flavours of porridge 😁 have a beautiful Sunday, I’m off to spend it with 2 of my 6 grandkids ❤️
I’ve put on weight just reading your wonderful foods. I used to be queen of ‘cardboard food’ according to my girls when they were growing up - you know, fish fingers and the like.
Now I’ll try my hand at most things, and love it when Geoff and I cook together, now that’s good for the sole 🐟(see what I did there! 😉) x
This made me laugh out loud!!!! love that you cook together... we do too, kind of, in that he's in another room shouting 'when's tea ready?' while i run around the kitchen looking for salt... Xx
I love to cook but I’m scratching my head trying to think of seven things that are my favourites.
Growing up, my mum prepared food, but didn’t cook from scratch. She hated cooking and only did it as it was one of her wifely and motherly duties. My grandma always fed us brown stew and dumplings because we visited on Saturdays and that was stew day. My nan made everything from scratch and served us huge portions that had us groaning with bloated stomachs in the car going home. But she got me interested in cooking as did my first home economics teacher. She was a pushover when it came to playing her up but she taught me skills I still use today.
Anyway, enough of the waffling. My seven are as follows
1. Bread.You start off with four simple ingredients and a few hours later have created a thing of beauty. Pure magic!
2. Risotto. I’m more than happy to stand at the cooker and stir for as long as it takes. Just as long as radio 2 is on and I’ve got wine to sip.
3. Macarons. Only because it took me loads of attempts to get them right.
4. Trifle. One of my Nan’s star dishes. I swear she put in a whole bottle of Sherry and dad should definitely not have driven home! I never include jelly. That’s just so wrong!
5. Falafel wraps. I try to recreate the ones I had on a backpacking holiday in Israel. Still a way to go before I get it right.
6. A salad of chicken, mango, blue cheese and walnuts with a spicy mango dressing. My favourite throw together salad.
7. Roast dinner. Because it always means that the family are together.
Sorry that this is long. Food is my favourite subject and I could go on for hours about it!
I’m on a strict diet at the minute preparing for surgery. I jokingly asked my 4 grown up kids who wants to take mum out for dinner. So I’m glad I’m actually having food this evening because this has made me soo hungry. I could eat all of those dishes. Though question for number 7- could you swap goats cheese for maybe mozzarella and the walnuts for pecans? Hubby would eat the goats cheese though I’m not a fan. As a child I lived in a farm and my dad thought he’d venture into goats cheese, we also had to drink goats milk instead of cows and I just have bad memories of sharp flavoured goats milk.
These all sound delicious I'll be round for some Nachos lol .I'm not a great cook but my signature dish is tagliateli I have to make one for every family and friends parties so I must be doing something right I do love pasta.Have a lovely day and a lovely lunch xx
As long as you can sustain yourself, and those around you, Mandy!
I, like you, was surrounded by amazing cooks, male and female, as I grew up. (Not my Pops, though he's a great taster, and, in his old age, can make a mean porridge or an omelette! But my brother did get the cooking bug. He's the main chef in their house!)
Men loved cooking the 'nyama' (meat) in Kenya. They would, during gatherings, sit around an outside stove, with their bottles of Tusker beer, chat, joke, drink, and cook whatever meat was given to them.
My mum, grandma, aunties, older cousins.
So many women with different fab recipes, both savoury and sweet. And my mother in law, once I got married, showed me more traditional Punjabi cooking.
We had a kaleidoscope of cultural flavours around us, from the different Indian regional cooking, to the Kenyan influence brought in since my parents were born there.
Add other Asian flavours, as well as quintessential British cooking (my mum was a keen cook, and even studied hotel management and catering at Bath Uni, with Mary Berry there at the same time, no less) and there was plenty of choice, and experience!
I do love cooking, however I have a little nuclear family who aren't as adventurous, so I don't get to spread my culinary wings too far but, like you, I have my key dishes!
1. Butter and cumin chicken 😋 ( one of my first dishes cooked for uni friends. Went down a treat!)
2. Chicken and sweetcorn soup. (Something Sukh, my hubby, fell in love with, so I had to getum's recipe!)
3. Garlic and parsley prawns (thanks to my brother, who is an ace cook!)
4. Chickpea curry (a nod to my writing😊)
5. Cakes! (Several different ones. Who doesn't love a good bake!)
6. Shortbread cookies (shoutout to my Nani!)
7. Rich tea biscuit pudding with cream and fruit! (My mum used to make it, it's yummy!)
(Though my daughter, given a choice, would choose chicken nuggets and chips any time! 🙄)
Oh, it is so simple, but yummy! I like using rich tea fingers, but I remember, on occasion, she would use the round ones for a special occasion, and layer it in a way it looked like a curling, cream covered snake!
I also created my own version with madeira cake, which is so good, too!
I’m going to have to try and create a rich tea snake! It sounds amazing! We only ever had cream out of a tin. Rubbish for covering anything except a bowl of prunes which was our Sunday tea pud!
Evaporated milk is just awful! We had sterilised cream from a tin. I think it was made by Nestles. It was brilliant white and tasted nothing like real cream. The first time I ever had real cream was in Austria when I was 11. Schlagsahne is the best!
Another wonderful post, beautiful lady. I too am a feeder, don’t like it when someone crosses my threshold and doesn’t get at least something to eat and drink. My mum, God rest her, was the same. For her it was always bacon and tomato sandwiches, they were yummy and one thing my kids agree I make just like hers. She even kept bacon in ‘just in case’ and if it wasn’t eaten it ended up in a bacon and egg pie. I no longer eat meat, I usually provide whatever I have in though. My brother turned up early one mirning and left with a tummy full of two different flavours of porridge 😁 have a beautiful Sunday, I’m off to spend it with 2 of my 6 grandkids ❤️
Oh I love this Linda! And have a wonderful day! Xxx
Have a great day!
I’ve put on weight just reading your wonderful foods. I used to be queen of ‘cardboard food’ according to my girls when they were growing up - you know, fish fingers and the like.
Now I’ll try my hand at most things, and love it when Geoff and I cook together, now that’s good for the sole 🐟(see what I did there! 😉) x
This made me laugh out loud!!!! love that you cook together... we do too, kind of, in that he's in another room shouting 'when's tea ready?' while i run around the kitchen looking for salt... Xx
Sounds like my kinda cooking together, too, Mandy! 🤣
This one has made me extremely hungry. My top 7 things to cook would have to be
1) avacado on toast with a poached egg
2)spaghetti bolognese
3)chicken and leek pie
4) cake -I make an awesome sponge
5) Mac n cheese
6) taco bowls
7) cheese on toast
Hope you have a fab weekend
I want to come to you for tea - all DELISH!!!!! x
I love all of your seven choices. I could eat cheese on toast every day!
I love to cook but I’m scratching my head trying to think of seven things that are my favourites.
Growing up, my mum prepared food, but didn’t cook from scratch. She hated cooking and only did it as it was one of her wifely and motherly duties. My grandma always fed us brown stew and dumplings because we visited on Saturdays and that was stew day. My nan made everything from scratch and served us huge portions that had us groaning with bloated stomachs in the car going home. But she got me interested in cooking as did my first home economics teacher. She was a pushover when it came to playing her up but she taught me skills I still use today.
Anyway, enough of the waffling. My seven are as follows
1. Bread.You start off with four simple ingredients and a few hours later have created a thing of beauty. Pure magic!
2. Risotto. I’m more than happy to stand at the cooker and stir for as long as it takes. Just as long as radio 2 is on and I’ve got wine to sip.
3. Macarons. Only because it took me loads of attempts to get them right.
4. Trifle. One of my Nan’s star dishes. I swear she put in a whole bottle of Sherry and dad should definitely not have driven home! I never include jelly. That’s just so wrong!
5. Falafel wraps. I try to recreate the ones I had on a backpacking holiday in Israel. Still a way to go before I get it right.
6. A salad of chicken, mango, blue cheese and walnuts with a spicy mango dressing. My favourite throw together salad.
7. Roast dinner. Because it always means that the family are together.
Sorry that this is long. Food is my favourite subject and I could go on for hours about it!
TRIFLE!!!!!!!! yes, to the trifle - love this post so much!!!!!! xx
Oh how I wish I could ‘pass by” for your delicious-sounding nachos 😋
You'd be very welcome darling! X
They do sound yummy!
OMG I think a cookery book should be your next project.
I was about to pop round for nachos and then I remembered I don’t like peppers 🫑 and they don’t like me 😢
My top 7.
1. Paneer, chickpea and spinach curry
2. Spaghetti bolognaise
3. Baked oat pancakes with blueberries
4. Lemon and asparagus risotto
5. Chicken in sweet chilli sauce either served with fried rice or in tacos with sour cream
6. Turkey mince scotch eggs
7. Salmon and prawns baked en papillote
Oooh your risotto sounds divine!!! I'll pop that in my cookbook!!! Xxx
I’m on a strict diet at the minute preparing for surgery. I jokingly asked my 4 grown up kids who wants to take mum out for dinner. So I’m glad I’m actually having food this evening because this has made me soo hungry. I could eat all of those dishes. Though question for number 7- could you swap goats cheese for maybe mozzarella and the walnuts for pecans? Hubby would eat the goats cheese though I’m not a fan. As a child I lived in a farm and my dad thought he’d venture into goats cheese, we also had to drink goats milk instead of cows and I just have bad memories of sharp flavoured goats milk.
Loving your 7 things series
Thank you Joe - i love goats cheese!!!!!
These all sound delicious I'll be round for some Nachos lol .I'm not a great cook but my signature dish is tagliateli I have to make one for every family and friends parties so I must be doing something right I do love pasta.Have a lovely day and a lovely lunch xx
Oooh pasta - i LOVE it! Xxx
As long as you can sustain yourself, and those around you, Mandy!
I, like you, was surrounded by amazing cooks, male and female, as I grew up. (Not my Pops, though he's a great taster, and, in his old age, can make a mean porridge or an omelette! But my brother did get the cooking bug. He's the main chef in their house!)
Men loved cooking the 'nyama' (meat) in Kenya. They would, during gatherings, sit around an outside stove, with their bottles of Tusker beer, chat, joke, drink, and cook whatever meat was given to them.
My mum, grandma, aunties, older cousins.
So many women with different fab recipes, both savoury and sweet. And my mother in law, once I got married, showed me more traditional Punjabi cooking.
We had a kaleidoscope of cultural flavours around us, from the different Indian regional cooking, to the Kenyan influence brought in since my parents were born there.
Add other Asian flavours, as well as quintessential British cooking (my mum was a keen cook, and even studied hotel management and catering at Bath Uni, with Mary Berry there at the same time, no less) and there was plenty of choice, and experience!
I do love cooking, however I have a little nuclear family who aren't as adventurous, so I don't get to spread my culinary wings too far but, like you, I have my key dishes!
1. Butter and cumin chicken 😋 ( one of my first dishes cooked for uni friends. Went down a treat!)
2. Chicken and sweetcorn soup. (Something Sukh, my hubby, fell in love with, so I had to getum's recipe!)
3. Garlic and parsley prawns (thanks to my brother, who is an ace cook!)
4. Chickpea curry (a nod to my writing😊)
5. Cakes! (Several different ones. Who doesn't love a good bake!)
6. Shortbread cookies (shoutout to my Nani!)
7. Rich tea biscuit pudding with cream and fruit! (My mum used to make it, it's yummy!)
(Though my daughter, given a choice, would choose chicken nuggets and chips any time! 🙄)
I always thought that rich tea biscuits were boring but your mum’s pudding sounds delish!
Oh, it is so simple, but yummy! I like using rich tea fingers, but I remember, on occasion, she would use the round ones for a special occasion, and layer it in a way it looked like a curling, cream covered snake!
I also created my own version with madeira cake, which is so good, too!
This sounds epically brilliant! I will try it! X
Simple, but effective! 💜
I’m going to have to try and create a rich tea snake! It sounds amazing! We only ever had cream out of a tin. Rubbish for covering anything except a bowl of prunes which was our Sunday tea pud!
with evaporated milk???? x
Evaporated milk is just awful! We had sterilised cream from a tin. I think it was made by Nestles. It was brilliant white and tasted nothing like real cream. The first time I ever had real cream was in Austria when I was 11. Schlagsahne is the best!
I always loved Carnation milk with jelly!
Yes, for that added sweetness and stickiness! X
Mum used plenty of cream and dried fruits, as well as fresh. The cream would soak into the biscuits and make them all soft and moreish!