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Are old fashioned dinners a thing of the past?

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  • #152
    PsychoPete
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    CelticRambler wrote: »
    Sautéd, rissolé, dauphinoise, mashed (with lashings of butter and milk), fried mashed (with added onion and black pepper). Double yum! :pac:

    Sauted, rissole and dauphinoise? Absolute notions!


  • #153
    trashcan
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    CelticRambler wrote: »
    Sautéd, rissolé, dauphinoise, mashed (with lashings of butter and milk), fried mashed (with added onion and black pepper). Double yum! :pac:

    Did an extra jacket potato last Sunday. On Monday I sliced it and fried it, with a fried egg and black pudding. Outstanding.


  • #154
    Knine
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    cannotlogin wrote: »
    I really don't like coddle or stew. Normally it's just tasteless slop.

    Love a good Sunday roast but loathe bacon & cabbage. It remains me of my Sunday dinner in my grandmother's years ago where the bacon was cooked dry and the cabbage nearly stewed. We were almost forced to eat it so as not to be disrespectful. My dad is actually a pretty good cook other than when he replicates this childhood horror.

    Smell, taste, texture, has put me off it for life.

    If it is tasteless slop then you are doing it wrong, I put chopped carrots, potatoes, onions, rasher & sausages into the slow cooker. I add plenty of chicken stock, pepper & aromat. Put on high for 4 hours & it tastes great with fresh bread rolls & butter. It is far from tasteless!


  • #155
    Aongus Von Bismarck
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    Coddle is absolutely disgusting to look at - those pale boiled sausages looking like a meagre old penis poking up through a sickly coloured broth.


  • #156
    46 Long
    Closed Accounts Posts: 355 ✭✭46 Long


    Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »
    Coddle is absolutely disgusting to look at - those pale boiled sausages looking like a meagre old penis poking up through a sickly coloured broth.

    Never had Weisswurst, Angus? Fairly popular in your neck of the woods.


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  • #157
    CelticRambler
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    trashcan wrote: »
    Did an extra jacket potato last Sunday. On Monday I sliced it and fried it, with a fried egg and black pudding. Outstanding.

    Ah stop. :mad: Can't get daycent black (or white) pudding here in France. :(

    Shepherd's pie tonight. Is that traditional enough for this thread?


  • #158
    BeefeaterHat
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    Kylta wrote: »
    Do people still do a sunday dinner, consisting of ham, roast, potatoes, cabbage?
    Do people still do stews?
    Do people still do coddles?

    These days with most children, especially teenagers, not wanting this and only eating that, and people becoming vegans and vegetarians, people cutting down of different foods due to medical conditions etc.

    So what's your opinion, if you refuse to answer, you'll get yesterdays leftover cabbage and potatoes for your dinner.

    I'm in my early 20's and I'd bite your arm off for a Sunday roast or bacon and cabbage. Love the stuff.


  • #159
    Ubbquittious
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    Have a pot of stew seething. Will crack open a Beamish once it's finished


  • #160
    Pasteur.
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    I'm still making chips

    They must go way back here


  • #161
    _Brian
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    jim o doom wrote: »
    That looks epic, is there bacon in there as well? I have a meat mincer but I don't have a sausage machine.. yet..


    no all pork.. caramalised onion and garlic, plenty of mixed herbs..


    Next time I'm thinking of adding wholegrain mustard and apple as well...


    In fairness its a bit of a luxury to have but herself and the kids knew I'd been looking at it online and got it for my birthday.. We're getting better at it very time..


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  • #162
    PsychoPete
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    _Brian wrote: »
    no all pork.. caramalised onion and garlic, plenty of mixed herbs..


    Next time I'm thinking of adding wholegrain mustard and apple as well...


    In fairness its a bit of a luxury to have but herself and the kids knew I'd been looking at it online and got it for my birthday.. We're getting better at it very time..

    How fast can you tie a sausage?


  • #163
    ATC110
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    dubstarr wrote: »
    No you really think being forced to eat food you genuinely dont like is a good thing.

    And eating at different times,well sometimes thats just what happens.

    It's obviously not being "forced", it's sustenance and with no other choice you'll be grateful for it and eat it


  • #164
    _Brian
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    PsychoPete wrote: »
    How fast can you tie a sausage?

    Not fast at all.

    Barry John would be bitterly disappointed


  • #165
    Man Vs ManUre
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    You can travel all over the world but you won’t find much better than a few slices of bread with lashings of butter. Breakfast, lunch, dinner or even snacks in between nothing better than a few slices of bread and butter and a pot of hot tea or coffee.


  • #166
    Man Vs ManUre
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    Throw in a few cream crackers with lashings of butter, with a hot pot of coffee no milk. You can’t go wrong.


  • #167
    andekwarhola
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    jim o doom wrote: »
    Weirdly I was a super picky kid and my parents coddled me (hah!) letting me eat what I wanted, and now as an adult I can and will eat almost anything, including everything I hated as a child.. well except maybe most mushrooms.

    Same for me, in terms of childhood and now. I think being forced to eat stuff I hated might have just put me off it altogether in later life.


  • #168
    _Brian
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    Man Vs ManUre wrote: »
    You can travel all over the world but you won’t find much better than a few slices of bread with lashings of butter. Breakfast, lunch, dinner or even snacks in between nothing better than a few slices of bread and butter and a pot of hot tea or coffee.

    Fresh homemade bread. Real butter. Strong tea.

    We make bread maybe 4 times a week. All different types. Made in the oven if we have time or in the bread maker if we’re busy. Flour here comes in 16kg bags 😂


  • #169
    ChikiChiki
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    Coddle sounds like a horror show.

    Bacon and cabbage on the other hand done right is unreal.


  • #170
    Stevieluvsye
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    Coddle is delicious. Some fresh Brennans with real butter and get stuck in. Feeling adventurous? Lob some ketchup in. Less so, drop of Worcestershire sauce.

    Another old school cheap eat thats tasty, fried egg with mash with some onions mixed in.

    Tripe is a step too far.

    I have a roast every Sunday. Lamb being preference when in season. Don’t even consider pork as a roast. Poxy


  • #171
    _Brian
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    Stevieluvsye wrote: »
    Coddle is delicious. Some fresh Brennans with real butter and get stuck in. Feeling adventurous? Lob some ketchup in. Less so, drop of Worcestershire sauce.

    Another old school cheap eat thats tasty, fried egg with mash with some onions mixed in.

    Tripe is a step too far.

    I have a roast every Sunday. Lamb being preference when in season. Don’t even consider pork as a roast. Poxy

    Pork and bacon that’s commercially produced sadly lacks flavour and texture. We’re lucky and can rear our own. They are out rooting abkut in the earth and get only minimum meal. They are killed at 9-10 months rather than 3-4 in commercial units. It’s really shown me that what is a available commercially is only a pale copy of what it should be. Chicken suffers a similar fate being forced too quickly and so commercial chickens melt away during cooking.


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  • #172
    Edgware
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    I am all for old style dinners but it is so difficult to get good servants now


  • #173
    seamus
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    Man Vs ManUre wrote: »
    You can travel all over the world but you won’t find much better than a few slices of bread with lashings of butter.
    Man Vs ManUre wrote: »
    Throw in a few cream crackers with lashings of butter, with a hot pot of coffee no milk. You can’t go wrong.

    Reminds of something I saw on Twitter this week;

    "Bread is merely a vehicle for eating butter in a respectable manner"


  • #174
    sbsquarepants
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    Stevieluvsye wrote: »
    .

    I have a roast every Sunday. Lamb being preference when in season. Don’t even consider pork as a roast. Poxy


    I don't mind a bit of roast pork, some bramley apple sauce if i'm feeling sophisticated:D

    But there is no more bland, pointless, tasteless shít piece of mate than a pork chop, i'll eat them begrudgingly if they are put in front of me, but i'd never consider cooking them myself.


  • #175
    jim o doom
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    andekwarhola wrote: »
    Same for me, in terms of childhood and now. I think being forced to eat stuff I hated might have just put me off it altogether in later life.

    That's exactly what I think based on the experiences my wife and I had.

    Once you get to adulthood and there's nobody forcing you to eat stuff you hate, like all your childhood, then you might only eat stuff you like.

    On the other hand, having my picky diet pandered to as a kid - once I grew older, I started thinking to myself.. why DO I hate all this stuff? Gradually started eating things I didn't like on semi regular occasions, got used to their flavours, and then getting to a point that now I really enjoy them.. except mushrooms (although I can eat $hi-take mushrooms it thought the first half the word was a curse)


  • #176
    El_Duderino 09
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    ATC110 wrote: »
    It all went wrong when "eat what you're given" was replaced with asking and giving children what they want along with separate mealtimes for parents and children.

    Regarding “eat what you’re given”: it depends.

    If a child really doesn’t like something then what’s the point in giving it to them and making them eat it. If a child is generally happy to eat most things and tells you they really don’t like something, then don’t cook it for them.

    Agree about the whole family eating together though


  • #177
    awec
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    El_Duderino 09 wrote: »
    Regarding “eat what you’re given”: it depends.

    If a child really doesn’t like something then what’s the point in giving it to them and making them eat it. If a child is generally happy to eat most things and tells you they really don’t like something, then don’t cook it for them.

    Agree about the whole family eating together though

    Sure food is so cheap and abundant these days, with such great variety, that there really is no need to force kids to eat something they don't like.

    It's a pointless hill to die on.


  • #178
    El_Duderino 09
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    awec wrote: »
    Sure food is so cheap and abundant these days, with such great variety, that there really is no need to force kids to eat something they don't like.

    It's a pointless hill to die on.

    Completely pointless. Children’s tastebuds chnage and they view food differently. Small children tend to not like many colours and textures on the plate together so better to give them foods one at a time. If you introduce foods to them and they genuinely don’t like then take them at their word. It doesn’t mean giving them chips or Frosties every meal, but the “you’ll eat what I like” attitude is a silly battle to pick.


  • #179
    [Deleted User]
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    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Bland boring dinner type. Good riddance i say.

    A well cooked chicken dinner or stew is among the niced feeds you can get.


  • #180
    Dyr
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    I've been vegetarian since the lockdown started, tbh I'd murder a coddle or a stew, or a roast chicken dinner with all the trimmings


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  • #181
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    I'm making a mild spiced rice and lentil dish and a creamy, coconutty chicken Korma for tonights dinner. The korma is in the slow cooker, and the house smells like heaven. I love the smell of cooking in the house on a cold day, it's a lovely homely thing. I appreciate that kind of thing more than ever, these days.


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