Favourite Food(s) Your Nan(s) Used to, or Still Make

[VladimirIlyich]

In tribute to Tony's threads I thought I'd post this one. 

 

My dear departed Nans have been gone for 29 years and 17 years respectively, but I still remember the ace foods they used to make. My favourite was Lentil Soup and spare ribs as well as the best scouse on the planet.She also made our Christmas Pudding each year and since my last Nan passed in 2002 I haven't had another Christmas Pudding as they just aren't the same.My other Nan who's been dead almost 30 years used to make a homemade Apple Pie with a lovely buttery crust pastry too.

 

[manwiththestick]

Rib soup.

[mattyq]

Homemade rice pudding

Was a thing of beauty 

[Pureblood]

Scones, but sadly the recipe was taken to the grave and they'll never be eaten again.

[Bobby Hundreds]

Home made chips. Unreal, covered in black bits. A danger zone when being made.

[Tony Moanero]

Both of my nans were terrible cooks, one more so than the other. Fry-ups that even the shittiest of greasy spoon cafes wouldn't dream of serving, tapioca pudding that was like wallpaper paste and fruit loaf that was so dry and hard, we used to lash it out in garden and even the birds wouldn't touch it. My dad's aunt, however, was fantastic. Boss roast dinners, sherry triffle and the best fruit cake I've ever had.

[Section_31]

corned beef hash.

 

was chatting about this recently actually, you forget that if you were born in 1980 like me it was only 35 years after the war.

 

pretty much all my nan's meals were designed around being cheap and easy to make, go far and be nutritious. Lots of stews, barley soups etc.

[Chip Butty]

Tea with sterry milk in, bread and butter pudding, apple pie and her version of scouse. 

[Elite]

Grated potatoe cakes

[polymerpunkah]

Not my nan, but my aunt.

 

She was from Scotland, and she fed us welsh rarebit when we went over for lunch. Amazing stuff, of course.

[Bjornebye]

Beef Stroganof 

[Anny Road]

My Nan was 100 last month and we had a party and Dalglish turned up.

Well he didn't but him Steve g and family were in the room having dinner.

[Anny Road]

Should add they were lovely and never bothered us at all

[Jairzinho]

Seafood empanadas. They were a thing of beauty.

[Paul]

My nan was an amazing home cook. In fact she was on telly in the 50s on this programme with women sharing their recipes designed to get the most out of rationing. She also had various recipes printed in WI books. Here are some favourites:

 

Her Eccles cakes were genuinely the best I've ever eaten. Buttery, sweet and delicious.

 

She did sausages slowly in the oven so they were gooey, juicy and gorgeous.

 

She made this mad desert by mixing double cream and Greek yogurt and sprinkling brown sugar on top. She'd then grill it until the sugar caramelised. Shit was real, yo.

 

She also made these puff pastry, Red Leicester and Bovril twists that were amazing from the oven.

 

She made her own version of tiffin called fridge cake that had biscuit and raisins in it. Boss.

 

She made coffee with Coffeemate and milk and it was extra creamy.

 

She always had a biscuit tin on the go and had Tunnock's before they made a trendy comeback.

 

I acquired my love of dandelion and burdock from her too as she always got it from the pop man.

 

Her rice puddings and trifles were unreal too.

[Paul]

My other nan (grandma) was not a great cook, but I loved two meals she did:

 

1. Roast beef and Yorkshire pud. As a Yorkshire woman she prided herself on getting this right - and she did.

 

2. Salad tea with pork pie, sliced ham, boiled eggs, "barm cakes", tomatoes, iceberg lettuce, salad cream, English mustard and then cream cakes washed down with loads of tea.

[Furmedge]

Boiled ribs. Meat fell off the none.

 

Chips in the chip pan then doused in a gallon of vinegar.

[Lee909]

Boiled bacon joint

And either Colcanon or Champ

[Tj hooker]

Not me Nan as we didn't see much off her but I would die for a piece of me Mums apple pie right now , was talking to my lad about it the other week

[PestiRed]

My nan was from Yorkshire and made Yorkshire puddings. Not the tiny shit that gets served with the main course, but the original, plate-sized ones full of onion gravy that came as a starter. Basically used to fill you up so you didn't notice that the main course of meat was tiny.

 

She also made a superb pavlova for dessert

[Dave D]

My Nans roasts- only time I ever had dumplings- epic. 

[Jairzinho]

My nan was from Yorkshire and made Yorkshire puddings. Not the tiny shit that gets served with the main course, but the original, plate-sized ones full of onion gravy that came as a starter. Basically used to fill you up so you didn't notice that the main course of meat was tiny.

 

She also made a superb pavlova for dessert

My English nan was also from Yorkshire. Also specialised in Yorkshire puddings and pavlova.

 

Fuck, I miss Yorkshire puddings. More than I miss my nan, to be honest.

[PestiRed]

My English nan was also from Yorkshire. Also specialised in Yorkshire puddings and pavlova.

Fuck, I miss Yorkshire puddings. More than I miss my nan, to be honest.

Who knew that pavlova was a Yorkshire specialty?

[Tony Moanero]

My Nans roasts- only time I ever had dumplings- epic.

Dumplings with a roast. Controversial.

[Numero Veinticinco]

Dumplings with a roast. Controversial.

Indeed. I did have a nan but I never really had any contact with them, but as my dear ol' Mum is no longer with us I'm going to use her meals instead.

 

Roast dinner. Pork, mainly. Fucking loved the cracking. And how can Mums and Nans do gravy like that... amazing.

 

Stew and Dumplings. Dumplings. Never had them anywhere else, from anybody else, but they were fucking awesome. My boy loved them too.