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Are old fashioned dinners a thing of the past?

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    #92
    Rubberchikken
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    Christmas dinner in our house is Delicious:)

    I love roasts but working nights it's hard to do them regularly.
    Can't stand pasta or rice so any stir fry I do for myself is accompanied by bread.
    Cabbage and mash or turnip and mash with a couple of oflynns sausages would put hair on your back:)

    The king for me is frozen pizza. That's the lazy in me coming out.


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    #93
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    Rubberchikken wrote: »
    Christmas dinner in our house is Delicious:)

    I love roasts but working nights it's hard to do them regularly.
    Can't stand pasta or rice so any stir fry I do for myself is accompanied by bread.
    Cabbage and mash or turnip and mash with a couple of oflynns sausages would put hair on your back:)

    The king for me is frozen pizza. That's the lazy in me coming out.

    I'm disappointed theres no mention of rubber chicken :D


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    #94
    Porklife
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    Kylta wrote: »
    That's sounds like a brilliant memory for you.
    My father still eats tripe, to be honest never liked the look at the thing in the pot, I usedto think it was santas beard as a child.

    Well one things for sure, it made me hate my neighbour the absolute wagon and it made me hate coddle. Is it even supposed to be nice? I thought it was a meal thrown together if you were poor and only had potatoes and sausages. Why not fry the sausage at least so it looks less like a cold shrivelled up penis?


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    #95
    meeeeh
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    Kylta wrote: »
    That's sounds like a brilliant memory for you.
    My father still eats tripe, to be honest never liked the look at the thing in the pot, I usedto think it was santas beard as a child.

    Tripe is traditional food where I come from. Mum is excellent cook but nothing could make tripe edible. I absolutely hate it.

    We grew up eating main meal together and I do that with my family too. I like good food, it can be grilled peach and chicken salad, chicken shawarma, pizza, stew or mussels... I love variety and adapt what we eat to how busy I'm. There is absolutely nothing wrong with traditional food if you have time to make it properly. (Husband comes home late and I'm much better cook so I prefer to cook all the time).


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    #96
    Seamai
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    Rubberchikken wrote: »
    Christmas dinner in our house is Delicious:)

    I love roasts but working nights it's hard to do them regularly.
    Can't stand pasta or rice so any stir fry I do for myself is accompanied by bread.
    Cabbage and mash or turnip and mash with a couple of oflynns sausages would put hair on your back:)

    The king for me is frozen pizza. That's the lazy in me coming out.

    O'Flynn's sausages are great, made currywurst with some of their Cumberlands this evening.


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    #97
    Strumms
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    My Mother makes the best coddle on the face of the planet. My grandmothers recipe, it’s a thick, wholesome, flavorsome FULL of ingredients and downright tasty. It’s perfect.

    I’ve ordered coddle out in one restaurant and one pub and it just wasn’t up to the mark or close even. All soup and little substance or ingredients apart from watery soup, sausage and a bit of potato...

    Her stew is pretty excellent but that coddle be her signature dish...


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    #98
    CelticRambler
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    Kylta wrote: »
    Do people still do a sunday dinner, consisting of ham, roast, potatoes, cabbage?

    Going back to this original question, in my teenage family home, our "Sunday" dinner was moved to Monday when my mother decided she had better things to be doing on a Sunday than cooking! This was long before the days of the internet and social media, so for once that's not to blame - it was just a plain, old-fashioned analog family life getting in the way: going to see the relatives down the country, going to the beach/a fleadh/a parade, coming back from a weekend away, taking my sisters to a feis ...

    So the roast ended up being our start-of-the-week dinner, with the leftovers usually making up Tuesday's dinner for those who were getting in late from whatever activities kept them from being at the table at 6 or 7.

    Nowadays, I don't think any of the five households that make up the grown-up family have a set menu for any particular day of the week. If you turn up on a Sunday, it might be a roast ... but it could just as easily be pizza.

    My mother does prefer offering a roast of some kind for special events, which I suppose is her way of perpetuating the tradition; whereas I (in exile for nearly 30 years now) would be more inclined to do individual portions of something. Christmas dinner this year is going to be pan-fried magret de canard served with dauphinoise potatoes (veg yet to be decided).


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    #99
    Man Vs ManUre
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    Today I cooked baked ham, potatoes, green cabbage and parsley sauce. Yum. 😋


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    #100
    Day Lewin
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    This is your recipe for coddle: http://thetastebudtest.blogspot.com/2011/01/coddle.html

    Made in its purest form, as my Dublin grandmother did it. A perfect Dublin dish, with only local ingredients, to be cooked in your one pot, over your one fire: in fact it could be straight out of Juno and the Paycock.

    Follow instructions exactly. You're welcome.


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    #101
    Man Vs ManUre
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    Thank God coddle has become a thing of the past. I never seen it on a cooking show. Horrible looking dinner, I’d probably even have a haggis before it.


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    #102
    screamer
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    i cook lots of traditional dinners, other stuff too, stirfrys etc. We always have roast on Sunday, beef, chicken, pork. Never had coddle, looks like vomit to me.


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    #103
    Wanderer2010
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    Very little point in cooking a Sunday dinner these days when there are so many local pubs and hotels that do great roasts with all the trimmings. In fact i dont know anyone who actually cooks a sunday dinner anymore.


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    #104
    dubstarr
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    CelticRambler wrote: »
    Going back to this original question, in my teenage family home, our "Sunday" dinner was moved to Monday when my mother decided she had better things to be doing on a Sunday than cooking! This was long before the days of the internet and social media, so for once that's not to blame - it was just a plain, old-fashioned analog family life getting in the way: going to see the relatives down the country, going to the beach/a fleadh/a parade, coming back from a weekend away, taking my sisters to a feis ...

    So the roast ended up being our start-of-the-week dinner, with the leftovers usually making up Tuesday's dinner for those who were getting in late from whatever activities kept them from being at the table at 6 or 7.

    Nowadays, I don't think any of the five households that make up the grown-up family have a set menu for any particular day of the week. If you turn up on a Sunday, it might be a roast ... but it could just as easily be pizza.

    My mother does prefer offering a roast of some kind for special events, which I suppose is her way of perpetuating the tradition; whereas I (in exile for nearly 30 years now) would be more inclined to do individual portions of something. Christmas dinner this year is going to be pan-fried magret de canard served with dauphinoise potatoes (veg yet to be decided).

    I often do a roast during the week.Kids in school,can cook it at a nice pace.
    Rather than Sunday,and I get the kids coming in every minute asking me if it's done yet.

    Triple.
    I remember coming in from school,and my mam asking if I wanted tripe.I thought she said trifle😂.You can guess the rest.


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    #105
    Potential-Monke
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    I live with my parents, so Sunday to Thursday is nearly always a proper dinner, stew, bacon and cabbage, mince and spuds, roast chicken, beef, pork, turkey and ham, lamb (not a fan). Always spuds, always veg, always meat. The father would happily eat just spuds and meat.

    On Fridays, it can be a proper dinner, or a take away depending on the mood, or if they have a large breakfast, it's usually sandwiches or some cake-a-bread. Saturdays are the same.

    When I was living by myself, my dinners mainly consisted of rice + chicken with a variety of sauces. But also a lot of takeaways, mainly Chinese food, some proper chipper food. I'm also mad for a McD's, their chips (I refuse to call them fries) are amazing imo. I'd eat nothing but them sometimes. And their hash browns... I feckin love 'em.

    My favourite dinner is still bacon and cabbage but only if it's mammys, she adds bread soda to the cabbage when it's nearly done, softens it up lovely. That's followed by mince fried in oxtail soup over spuds with beans. Sweet baby jesus!


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    #106
    Graces7
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    Seamai wrote: »
    I don't think there's anything you could do with tripe and drisheen to make it more appetizing, tripe cooking smell like some manky dishcloth being boiled to bejasus and as for drisheen which turns grey when boiled, yuk! Grey is not a good colour on a plate.

    My father used to love tripe. The sight of it on his plate still haunts me. Many decades later..:eek:


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    #107
    Graces7
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    On my own, which influences meals... Love some of the SV Ready Meals especially the Bacon and Cabbage, so that is often my Sunday dinner. Good value at E4...Cooking it myself from scratch wears me out so this is a treat! (Not Irish but love that combination.)

    Hate the curries and other mixed up "modern " stuff. Very traditional and happy with that.

    Christmas Day sees the full dinner. A kind of celebration of all my long gone family. I enjoy the cooking etc and the memories. Candles lit, carols playing, tree lights shining... Tears never far away

    Turkey, cranberry, roast potatoes and roast parsnips, stuffing, sprouts, gravy. I make the best roast potatoes ever - after my mother's of course ;)

    NB Thought the sprout harvest had failed as I have been ordering them for weeks. Light dawned as I was writing " Brussel sprouts" and the shop did not know them by that name... Just sprouts! They will be here today. My favourite vegetable.

    PS remembering the last time I shared a table with others. The Westport Lunch Club who used to welcome me on the rare occasions I was in town on a Friday, Their Christmas dinner two years ago. A lovely happy occasion . And an excellent dinner. I do hope they will be able to do that this year. Happy staying home here


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    #108
    Doctors room ghost
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    Wanderer2010 wrote: »
    Very little point in cooking a Sunday dinner these days when there are so many local pubs and hotels that do great roasts with all the trimmings. In fact i dont know anyone who actually cooks a sunday dinner anymore.





    Pubs and hotels are closed most of the last 9 months.


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    #109
    Squall
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    Do a roast most sundays. Mix it up between beef, turkey and ham. Cant beat it. Leftovers do sandwiches for a day or two as well!


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    meeeeh
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    Wanderer2010 wrote: »
    Very little point in cooking a Sunday dinner these days when there are so many local pubs and hotels that do great roasts with all the trimmings. In fact i dont know anyone who actually cooks a sunday dinner anymore.

    Most of the hotel or pub offerings are overcooked. There is nothing sadder than grey slice of beef with gravy from the box.

    I love eating out but roast in an average hotel or pub is about as appealing as eating roast on plastic tray from Centra.


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    #111
    dubstarr
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    I like doing different dinners.I wouldnt eat spuds 2 days on the trot, very boring.

    I think now we have so much variety and choice.Why have the same dinners all the time.

    Im quite lucky my kids will eat most things.

    My mam was a terrible cook,now im not Jamie Oliver but i can rustle up a few dishes.

    My oh likes plain food,which can be a pain.So he sometimes cooks his own.


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    #112
    Feisar
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    Graces7 wrote: »
    My father used to love tripe. The sight of it on his plate still haunts me. Many decades later..:eek:

    Polish tripe soup is a beautiful thing.

    First they came for the socialists...



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    #113
    Mullaghteelin
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Bland boring dinner type. Good riddance i say.

    I call it "old people food."
    7 Days a week of potatoes (including chips) was not unusual, and is still my father's typical daily menu.

    I used to love the free samples of food you would get in shopping centres. Any food that was spicy was an exciting adventure for me growing up.
    I can remember the first time I tried pizza, curry, sweet and sour, etc.
    My parents meanwhile, still take fright at anything they cannot pronounce.


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    #114
    Feisar
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Bland boring dinner type. Good riddance i say.

    I like curries/pizzas/chili con carne as much as the next person however a proper roast dinner is beautiful.

    And what's this about slaving over a stove all day. Bung everything into the oven. Roast meat, roast spuds, roast carrots, roast parsnips, roast tomatoes on the vine, roast onion.
    OK you'll need a little pot for the beef juice and red wine gravy but that's about it.

    First they came for the socialists...



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    #115
    Stateofyou
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    CelticRambler wrote: »
    Simple rule in this house: if you don't want to eat what's prepared for the "family" (less of that these days, more a group of random guests) then you can cook something alternative for yourself and have it ready to serve at the same time. Funnily enough, there's rarely any demand for shared space at the cooker! :pac:

    I had seven vegetarians visit at various stages over the summer; six of them "lapsed" during their stay. The worst was the lady who was going to cook some kind of rice dish, had all her ingredients laid out, got distracted by a phone call, and came back just at the moment that I pulled a pork roast out of the oven. The rice never left the packet ... and she had two helpings of the pork! :D

    So to answer your question: yep -
    - Roast meat & potatoes are quite regular here (though not necessarily kept for Sundays) ; cabbage is for caterpillars, so I'd have two or three other veg instead.
    - Stews: regularly throughout the winter. I make up a big batch, put three or four portions in the freezer and eat the other three or four portions over the course of the week (I find the third re-heat is usually the best).
    - Coddle : never had it in its "pure" form, but regularly make what in this house we call "shpeck und spuds" - Speck being the German for prosciutto/lardons/bacon-bits. The meat would be fresh out of the packet, but the potato would always be leftovers, so true to the spirit of coddle ... but fried in a pan (with onions, herbs, black pepper), so not really coddle either.

    Edit: I have often had the Alsation version of coddle - choucroute (a version of sauerkraut). Suppose I should do a comparison tasting at some point ...

    Would all these visitors be in the year of covid 2020? Stories like this one all over the country is why we had to bring restrictions in.


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    #116
    crossmolinalad
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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.

    Eat what we have on the table or eat nothing
    No choice here


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    seamus
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    Coddle feels like some hipster meal that people swear blind is the best thing ever but was never actually popular.

    I'm Dublin born and bred, but I never heard of coddle until people started talking about it on social media about five years ago, and now it seems like it's everywhere.

    It looks like watery chunky soup with a mickey in it. Even if I ate meat, it doesn't look slightly appealing.

    I do a roast here at home once a week, but stews are rare. Mainly because we couldn't be arsed with the battle to get the kids to eat it.


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    #118
    Ash.J.Williams
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    xzanti wrote: »
    I've never cooked or eaten coddle.

    I love stew and cook it frequently.

    Also love a good roast chicken dinner on a Sunday.

    I don't really know what a "new fashion" dinner would be tbh?


    i love sausages, but knowing what's in them and the fact that coddle is boiled i can only conclude that coddle is poison

    preservative soup :)


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    SouthWesterly
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    seamus wrote: »
    Coddle feels like some hipster meal that people swear blind is the best thing ever but was never actually popular.

    I'm Dublin born and bred, but I never heard of coddle until people started talking about it on social media about five years ago, and now it seems like it's everywhere.

    It looks like watery chunky soup with a mickey in it. Even if I ate meat, it doesn't look slightly appealing.

    I do a roast here at home once a week, but stews are rare. Mainly because we couldn't be arsed with the battle to get the kids to eat it.

    You're not a real Dub if you've never heard of coddle.. Probably some type of blow in 10 generations ago :)

    Introduced coddle to my kerry friends. They can't get enough of it.


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    #120
    CelticRambler
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    dubstarr wrote: »
    I like doing different dinners.I wouldnt eat spuds 2 days on the trot, very boring.

    :pac: :D :pac: :D: pac:

    Not boring at all, if you invest a bit of time and imagination into the recipes. My summer visitors ate potatoes every day for two weeks and the only complaint I had was three days later from one young lady who said she was suffering severe withdrawal symptoms and could I send her some more. :cool:
    Stateofyou wrote: »
    Would all these visitors be in the year of covid 2020? Stories like this one all over the country is why we had to bring restrictions in.

    Yes, they were all lockdown refugees; but no, none of them are or were responsible for any restrictions. They travelled to one of the least infected parts of France (where I live), kept at a distance of approximately 2-5km from other humans not part of our bubble for the duration of their stay, and quarantined themselves when they returned to their respective corners of the continent. :p


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    Feisar
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    SouthWesterly wrote: »
    You're not a real Dub if you've never heard of coddle.. Probably some type of blow in 10 generations ago :)

    Introduced coddle to my kerry friends. They can't get enough of it.

    Phil Ryan's Hogan Stand pub used to have it on the carvery every now and then. The chef was a rale ould Dub though. Looked lovely apart from the boiled sausages. Just couldn't get my head around that end of it.

    First they came for the socialists...



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