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

[Dave D]

Dumplings with a roast. Controversial.

Know what you mean.

 

Only other time Ive had dumplings was in a carribbean place- and they came with a goat curry

[Dave D]

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.

Think the gravy thing must have been that they poured the meat juices from the roasting tin into the gravy. Ive tried it but it never seems theres enough to make a difference.

 

Although dinner at my Nans used to be for around 10-12 people so she must have made gallons of the stuff.

[SammyAftershave]

Many of the above but also:

 

Roasted rolled stuffed lambs breast

(Best) Neck Ends and barley soup

Pea-whack

Boiled bacon ribs and cabbage

Liver, bacon and onions

Pigs tails

Jam roly poly rolled in a tea towel

Docker's wedding cake

[General Dryness]

I honestly think I'm the first member of my family ever to be able to cook any good.

 

Can't remember ever eating anything cooked by anyone other than my mum, and that was mostly frozen/tinned stuff. Although to be fair we were a single parent family and she was working two, sometimes three, jobs to keep our heads above water so I'm fucked if I'm going to criticize her for not spending more time in the kitchen.

[s(k)aturation]

French Toast.

 

Chicken soup, with noodles she made herself.

 

Pelmeni.  Russian dumplings her and my grandfather used to make, totally sublime - something they took to their grave, sadly, and none of us in the family has been able to come close to replicating.

[Tom araya]

My nan made the best coddle on the planet.

[Paul]

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.

"Them as ates morst puddin' gets morst mate" as my grandma used to quote her own mum (she was one of ten).

 

I've only ever had Yorkshire pud traditionally in three houses: my grandma's, my mum's and mine. I hate those pissy little crispy round things that get served up as Yorkshire pud. I want a big fat slice of a huge pudding cooked in a roasting tin, soft in the middle, crisp at the edges and covered in beef gravy. And I want it first with nothing else on the plate.

 

That's Yorkshire pudding.

[s(k)aturation]

"Them as ates morst puddin' gets morst mate" as my grandma used to quote her own mum (she was one of ten).

 

I've only ever had Yorkshire pud traditionally in three houses: my grandma's, my mum's and mine. I hate those pissy little crispy round things that get served up as Yorkshire pud. I want a big fat slice of a huge pudding cooked in a roasting tin, soft in the middle, crisp at the edges and covered in beef gravy. And I want it first with nothing else on the plate.

 

That's Yorkshire pudding.

 

 

The best one of those I had was at a pub in Blackburn.  It was fucking fantastic.

[Mook]

The best one of those I had was at a pub in Blackburn. It was fucking fantastic.

In Lancashire as well.

 

My granny made amazing tattie soup, all the women in my family made great tattie soup. My other granny used to make home made fish & chips for us on a Thursday night, fucking lovely.

[RJ Fan club]

My Nan was an amazing cook.

 

She cooked for the Royal Hotel in Waterloo and baked for a shop nearby too.

 

Her pastries we're the absolute fucking best.

 

Said she passed away when I was 12, but illness kept her bed bound for years before, so I have only a few memories till the age of 7 or 8 of her cooking.

 

Her sausage rolls were the bomb though

[lifetime fan]

Gammon done in the pressure cooker

Roasts

Rhubarb crumble

Belly pork with gooseberry sauce

Chips

Sausage rolls

[Bob]

Homemade rice pudding

Was a thing of beauty

That's it for me. With a skin on the top like leather. Beautiful, crispy, tasty leather.

 

When the bowl was finished with, pour some warm milk into it and use that the help scrape off the rest of the skin from around the rim.

 

Yes.

[Anny Road]

There was not much to it but my nan used to do boiled ribs. Something you never see anymore. Melt off the bone with salt and pepper and pea soup.

[Guest Pistonbroke]

Nana Soans from my mother's side. A proper Madras curry with all the usual side dishes and Chapati's to die for. Her Bhaji's and Samosa were also ace. 

 

Nana Wade from my dad's side. She was a cunt and not welcome in our house. Her sister who I classed as my Grannie rather than my Auntie was an ace cook though. She made so many nice things, my favourite was her Beef Wellington. 

[Paulie Dangerously]

Corn beef hash

[Anny Road]

Corn beef hash

Cubed or mashed?

[Paulie Dangerously]

Cubed or mashed?

 

Mashed, full plate of it.  No other aspects to the dinner except red sauce

[Jockey]

Never had a Nan.

 

But Corned Beef hash is still a favourite, best poverty food I can think of. 

[Total Longo]

Mashed, full plate of it.  No other aspects to the dinner except red sauce

 

You deviant Paulie. It's brown sauce with corned beef hash. 

[lifetime fan]

Toast.

Freshly cut bread bread from a white bloomer done under a gas grill - not in a toaster, with lashings of real butter.

[El Rojo]

 

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.

 

 

 

I'm definitely trying this.

[Paul]

I'm definitely trying this.

Me too. I've hankered after it for years but never got round to actually making it!

 

Doesn't need long under the grill, obviously.