Best proper "Mammy" dinners you had as a kid

sdanseo

Inspired by the rather ill-thought out and adventurously titled thread about Coddle (amazing food invention that it is).

Got me thinking, what were the best dinners you used to get from your Mam/Dad/Granny? I absolutely love my Mam's Sunday Roasts and she used to do a mean lasagne that I'd look forward to, but she doesn't really cook it any more.

My granny still, at 87, does a bloody brilliant Apple Pie and Scones too - spoilt rotten we are when we go up there! :pac:

Excercise your taste buds and mods dont go moving this to food and drink its a bit more light hearted than all that!

Temptamperu

I always looked forward to the saturday fry-up in my house.

RichieC

Temptamperu wrote: »

I always looked forward to the saturday fry-up in my house.

though you may remember tuna and white sauce... :eek:

Temptamperu

RichieC wrote: »

though you may remember tuna and white sauce... :eek:

Jaysus dont remind me :pac:

retalivity

a mcgarveys curry with fresh cut chunky potato chips (plenty of salt and vinegar) - ask a donegal person.
her stew and potatoes.
she also makes a great rack of lamb for a sunday roast

OPENROAD

So many special dinners but............

Amazing Mince curries or Meat curries :):):)

I also remember one meal St Patrick's Day 1990......my school team had played in the schools rugby final at Lansdowne road... and remember my mum picking up a good bit after the match and going home to the most amazing roast pork dinner...sitting down at 21:00 to have it just as The Equalizer was starting.....I can still remember it so clearly .......what I wouldn't give to go back to that day

Jess16

Nothing tasted so good as Mammy's Shepherd's Pie after being away at college all week

mikemac

Hairy bacon, no I jest

Cabbage that was boiled for far too long
Beef that was way overcooked
Potato with every single meal, I must have had potatoes every day until I left and had finished school.
Bisto gravy

Can't be bate

And the Mammy would watch Darina Allen [where has she gone???] and try to get ideas but we sure never saw them on the table

Oh nearly forgot, jelly and icecream
Or maybe Angel Delight

And washed down with about three glasses of milk
We had a dairy farm and would get the "raw" milk, completly unprocessed. Still warm sometimes
Probably have a health and safety inspector around if you did that these days :rolleyes:

I was thin as a rake back then, now I eat less at meals but far more processed ****e which isn't good

randylonghorn

Bacon, with white cabbage and new potatoes straight out of the garden (and not boiled to death, Mike! :P) on a sunny summer's evening when it had cooled down enough that your appetite would have returned ... with all the "fancy" food I've eaten since, there's little could beat it!

bacon?

Mince, beans and potatoes... Gotta be round steak mince... oh, and my ma wouldn't just buy the round steak mince.... she'd watch the butcher mice some round steak.

I've tried to recreate this meal... should be simple enough.... doesn't taste the same though.

mikemac

Fish on Fridays.

Not for any big religious reason, just force of habit by the Mammy realy

Mackeral was the best and I still like trout

Salmon was horrendously expensive
Now things have turned completely around and salmon is cheap [fish farming] and cod is expensive [overfishing]

Or me and the brother would head down to Lough Derg to go fishing during the summer holidays. Trying for rainbow trout

Caught my supper :cool:

mikemac

bacon? wrote: »

I've tried to recreate this meal... should be simple enough.... doesn't taste the same though.

You forgot the lashings of butter.
Wouldn't be a proper Mammy meal without enough butter to give a doctor a fright

AskMyChocolate

sdeire wrote: »

Inspired by the rather ill-thought out and adventurously titled thread about Coddle (amazing food invention that it is).

Got me thinking, what were the best dinners you used to get from your Mam/Dad/Granny? I absolutely love my Mam's Sunday Roasts and she used to do a mean lasagne that I'd look forward to, but she doesn't really cook it any more.

My granny still, at 87, does a bloody brilliant Apple Pie and Scones too - spoilt rotten we are when we go up there! :pac:

Excercise your taste buds and mods dont go moving this to food and drink its a bit more light hearted than all that!

Well, that comes from having access to apples.:eek::pac:

My mam used to do this amazing meal which we all loved, because it involved five pounds of chips, and we weren't usually allowed fried food.

It involved, two pounds of sausage meat (bought from Hafner's at the close of play), two bags of breadcrumbs, a tin of mixed herbs, two eggs to bind it, rolled into meatballs, and then deep fried.

Then she used to make the "special sauce"!!

I know it involved a lot of windfalls and a can of Bulmers to "Irish it up" and kill some of the germs, but I still don't know what her special ingredients were. There was definitely a hint of whatever was left in the spice rack and some cornflour to thicken, but I've never got it quite right.

Fcuk it! It fed seven of us for a fiver and it was truly delish!

Oh, and fishfingers, beans, and chips was always a treat...and still is!

Chuck Stone

Roast chicken Sunday dinner.
Roast chicken Sunday dinner.
Roast chicken Sunday dinner.
Roast chicken Sunday dinner.
Roast chicken Sunday dinner.
Roast chicken Sunday dinner.
Roast chicken Sunday dinner.
Roast chicken Sunday dinner.

AskMyChocolate

Temptamperu wrote: »

I always looked forward to the saturday fry-up in my house.

Was there mushrooms? Shrooms and grilled tomatoes elevate a good fry into a great fry. Don't even get me started on potato cakes.

Where do you stand on beans? I'm a yea but others are a nay.

Fried brown bread FTW though. Soaked with whatever is left in the pan, and a knob of butter for luck. Now everybody make a wish.

Choco

AskMyChocolate

Anytime milk went off, my mam used to make currant bread, it was basically soda bread, but she'd throw in the currants, raisins, or sultanas that were still there from christmas, just a few at a time to sweeten the deal , if you'll excuse the pun.

I don't know if anybody has had the pleasure. It's the Irish version of bread and butter pudding, but drier, and in sliced pan form (Barm brack without the richness or spice) so you got to slather it with butter* as it constituted dessert. Winner alright.

With a cup of scald it was the food of Gods.

*(which wasn't allowed in our house, (except for me Dad) as margerine was healthier apparently in those days, as were cigarettes.)

Choco

anthony4335

When my mother used to make bacon and cabbage, we used have the cabbage water like soup. At first she mixed it with ox tail soup but I prefer it on its own. Sunday afternoon/evening left over patatoes wrapped in tin foil and place in the fire to reheat, plenty of butter and pepper.
Rhubarb pie with custard freshly made. Must call home this weekend!

oldyouth

Huge pots of chicken casserole. My 2 sons now live near her home and always leave with some as a takeaway when they visit her. Legend

Temptamperu

AskMyChocolate wrote: »

Was there mushrooms? Shrooms and grilled tomatoes elevate a good fry into a great fry. Don't even get me started on potato cakes.

Where do you stand on beans? I'm a yea but others are a nay.

Fried brown bread FTW though. Soaked with whatever is left in the pan, and a knob of butter for luck. Now everybody make a wish.

Choco

All of the above my good man, all of the above. Cant wait for super valu to open now ima make my ass a big greasy fry up

efb

Fruit Scones, eaten fresh out of the oven with lashing of butter, melting on impact- snooze you lose!

Irish Stew, mmmm anyone for thirds... too late!!!

Richard Hillman

When she ordered a take away. She is a crap cook.

pragmatic1

Roast chicken dinner. My Grannys stew, God damn that was good.

jd007

Bacon and cabbage, I haven't had it in aaages now that I think of it.

The Scientician

jd007 wrote: »

Bacon and cabbage, I haven't had it in aaages now that I think of it.

So boil up the bacon and the cabbage that's green
Have plenty of spuds laced with butter between
For eight empty bellies will soon need a fill
For it makes a man hungry, the old threshing mill

df1985

great at a roast but it was only when i got older i relaised she was a bit ****e at everything else.

steaks cremated, thought it was the norm till i had steak in spain.....mam what have you been doing!!

barbiegirl

Coddle on a cold Monday, using the ham left over from Sunday, sausages and rashers, plenty of veg and potato. Nothing like it.

xzanti

My Mam's Sunday dinners and my Dad's beef stew.. he made it with meatballs instead of diced beef.. it was bleedin' delish.

Mr. Presentable

"Here's 20p. Go buy yourself a bag of chips" :mad:

Lollipops23

Mammy Lollipops23 isn't the best cook in the world, but her homemade chips were the stuff of legends. Unfortunately she decided a number of years ago that the deep fat fryer was a horrific appliance and we had to get rid of it :mad: silly bint.

My stepdad does the most amazing sausage sambos though. Doctor Doom will back me up here.

Kovu

Lamb stew in Spring. Oh god it would melt in your mouth.
Drove us crazy with the smell of it simmering for hours.
Mouth watering here.........:P

kfallon

Ribs, cabbage done in the salt water and a feed of spuds

Me Ma is a brilliant cook, so many dinners of hers I could name that I look forward to.....pity I hardly get them these days

mono_mac

I seal them curry bags

retalivity wrote: »

a mcgarveys curry with fresh cut chunky potato chips (plenty of salt and vinegar) - ask a donegal person.
her stew and potatoes.
she also makes a great rack of lamb for a sunday roast

stargazer 68

I used to be in the girl guides and before we headed off camping on a Friday evening my mammy used to feed me home made chips, fried eggs and beans or fishcakes instead of eggs and loads of sliced pan for a chip butty. Im sure she thought I was never going to see food again until I got home on Sunday!! :P

Nead21

Roast chicken dinner on a Sunday
Cabbage and bacon (even if i hated bacon as a child, i still had to eat it!)
Warm rhubarb tart with custard ...YUM!

jenizzle

My Ma wasn't the maywest at the aul cookin' - "mashed" potato with too much onion and not a lot else (although, having it fried the next day was yom!), overcooked steak for weeks on end when we got a cow slaughtered and lashed into the freezer, spuds with bolognaise/curry/shephards pie - so I can't say I miss a whole lot other than the novelty of having dinner cooked for me :rolleyes:

I did love the Thursday evening fry up though, and my Da would do the fry on christmas morning which would be the greasiest thing you could imagine but there was fried bread included :cool:

Plazaman

My gran used to cook home cut chips for us when we were kids but never let the oil heat up properly so we got soggy chips but they tasted gorgeous. And yes the Sunday dinners that Mammy makes are never bet. My own Ma always started making Chrismas cakes and puddings around this time of the year and the smell of baking in the house was magic. Unfortunately she's not around this year (RIP) and it's one thing that will be sorely missed

sunflower27

Chuck Stone wrote: »

Roast chicken Sunday dinner.
Roast chicken Sunday dinner.
Roast chicken Sunday dinner.
Roast chicken Sunday dinner.
Roast chicken Sunday dinner.
Roast chicken Sunday dinner.
Roast chicken Sunday dinner.
Roast chicken Sunday dinner.

Oh yes. My mum, God love her, is not a good cook, but she was able to pull that off every Sunday no harm. The smell would waft through the house and the mouth would be watering in anticipation 'when's dinner?', 'when's dinnere? 'WHEN'S DINNER???'

Sooopie

AskMyChocolate wrote: »

Well, that comes from having access to apples.:eek::pac:

My mam used to do this amazing meal which we all loved, because it involved five pounds of chips, and we weren't usually allowed fried food.

It involved, two pounds of sausage meat (bought from Hafner's at the close of play), two bags of breadcrumbs, a tin of mixed herbs, two eggs to bind it, rolled into meatballs, and then deep fried.

Then she used to make the "special sauce"!!

I know it involved a lot of windfalls and a can of Bulmers to "Irish it up" and kill some of the germs, but I still don't know what her special ingredients were. There was definitely a hint of whatever was left in the spice rack and some cornflour to thicken, but I've never got it quite right.

Fcuk it! It fed seven of us for a fiver and it was truly delish!

Oh, and fishfingers, beans, and chips was always a treat...and still is!

That sounds amazing

Ash.J.Williams

watching Ian dempsey on the den whilst tucking into findus pancakes and chips on a friday evening...probably during 40 coats...

summerskin

chicken breasts marinated in yoghurt, cream, garlic and lemon, served with potatoes, veg and butter. awesome.

my gran used the make amazing potato pie, and a proper Lancashire HotPot, her Cow Heel pie was pretty damn good too.

Still miss the way she used to cook tripe and onions for us though, shedloads of vinegar on it.....

RachaelVO

Plazaman wrote: »

My gran used to cook home cut chips for us when we were kids but never let the oil heat up properly so we got soggy chips but they tasted gorgeous. And yes the Sunday dinners that Mammy makes are never bet. My own Ma always started making Chrismas cakes and puddings around this time of the year and the smell of baking in the house was magic. Unfortunately she's not around this year (RIP) and it's one thing that will be sorely missed

That christmas smell, my own man used to do the same. Love the smell, and you always had a mix of the christmas cake mix for luck and you had to make a wish. My mam always used to do it this time of year too! Dam I only just realised how much I miss that smell!

efb

I don't know what way she does it but mam's homecut chips are delicious

podgemonster

Its only after living away from home what a 1-dimensional cook my mother was. Now that I remember every meal featured dry spuds, veg and meat that was cooks until all its juices had evaporated. The idea of not have a steak not well done was absurd and me suggesting wet spuds for a change was seen with looks of disgust.

I remember once she got adventurous and made spagetti bolognese, which most of it ending up in the bin as everyone one decided the it was crap without the spuds.

She does do a good Roast Chicken in fairness

Turtyturd

Tins of meatballs (convinced they were dogfood) and Gammon steaks...I wish I was joking .

smash

Every Christmas my mam cooks a mean shoulder of lamb for me, and my granny always makes me a Christmas pudding.

roast

Homemade mincemeat burgers, or a bitta Mutton!

Of course with some nice flowery spuds and carrot

rich1874

Fish fingers and spagetti hoops with mashed potatoes, then mash the hoops into the potatoes, you got yourself a meal there mister..

Karona

My Mam isn't a great cook so I have been cooking for myself since I was about 13, but she does make great stuffing, its bloody gorgeous.

Mackman

My Mammy makes the best stuffing IN THE WORLD!!! Anytime she does a roast half my plate is stuffing and i squeeze the rest on the other half

kfallon

Me Ma used to do a great chicken casserole too, Christ I'm starving here thinking back to all them dinners she used to make!

I miss my Mammy!!!!!!!!

OneArt

Mine makes the most amazing lasagne. And pizza, there's normally too much of it. Odin bless South African cookbooks. My Irish Granny's apple pie is out of this world as well... Although my English grandmother likes to feed people discounted Sainsbury's goods with a side of marshmellows...