My Mum used to make casseroles out of whatever we had in - sausage meat, onions, apples and sage was a favourite. Or cheap beef and veg. Always hot and delicious.
I suppose the signature food in my house as a child was home-made cakes. I don't think Mum bought a cake until I was a teenager. And bread and butter pudding. hmmmmmmmmm
My earliest memory is of eating egg sandwiches sitting at the table next to a wall my dad had just stripped of wallpaper. It was bottle green underneath as I recall.
My mum used to have a routine by my teenage years. Roast on Sunday in strict beef, chicken, lamb, pork rotation. Monday was something with leftover roast meat (curry, sweet'n'sour etc.). Tuesday was mince, either shepherd's pie or bolognese. Wednesday was fish'n'chips. Thursday was meatballs or faggots, and Friday was stew and dumplings. Saturday was sausages and chips, and the chips were always homemade from real potatoes. How she managed to feed 6 of us like that on such a tight budget is beyond me, especially as we are all a little rounded and obviously enjoy our food.
My Mum went back to work soon after lil bruv was born so my Nan used to come over and cook for us and she would make Delia green with envy with her cooking!
Lamb stew and dumplings, jam roly poly and her special almond custard, welsh cakes.....all fab stuff.
and her corned beef oggies were to die for! :lickface:
We used to have quite a lot of stuff with mince.
Savoury mince with carrots and onions and mashed potato with a dash of Worcestershire Sauce rocked. If it was 'special occasion' time, sometimes we went to the chippy and had it with chipshop chips instead of mash. Yum! :lickface:
Meat and 2 veg, and we had to sit at the table to eat!!
My mother did meat and two veg almost every day. Occasionally she would do fish and two veg and on a saturday night home made chips with eggs and deep fried chicken or a curry. I have no idea how they managed to afford it with 6 kids. I think of it often especially when im doing a chilli or a spag bol and remember how mom would only ever use mince to "thicken" the gravy in curries and stews.
Salt on everthing!
Cold potatoes, celery, tomatoes
Apart from that there was tin of condensed milk!
I recall roast chicken every Sunday.........
rabbit, cod roe and fish paste eeeeeewwwwwwwww. Never again.
Guess due to rationing. Chicken was too expensive then so was only for christmas.
I forgot heart,liver kidneys..all kinds of offal and it was awful.
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