Are old fashioned dinners a thing of the past?

You can beat a good stew is cold weather

Kylta wrote: »

Do people still do a sunday dinner, consisting of ham, roast, potatoes, cabbage?

Yes, wouldn't be every sunday - but you can't beat a decent sunday dinner!

Kylta wrote: »

Do people still do stews?

Love stew, but only my ma's, my own or my cousin Jeans. My missuses effort is barely edible, i refuse to even call it stew:mad:

Kylta wrote: »

Do people still do coddles?

Very rarely because i'm the only one who eats it, but jaysus i'd kill for a bowl of coddle now!

You still get old style grub but the ingredients might be a bit more unusual

Funny myself and the other half were only saying today that our dads - both deceased - would hardly recognise the contents of our fridge

Stews, Bacon and Cabbage are still on the menu in our house with the odd Sunday roast or Shepard’s pie. We were never big into the coddle

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?

Pizza, Burgers, Lasagna

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.

our family love a roast dinner - we'd eat them frequently maybe fortnightly of a sunday

Stew occasionally too.


We all eat a lot of animal protein and none of my kids have any of restrictive eating habits so that type of thing is alien to me as a parent.

Kylta wrote: »

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.

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!

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 ...

What even is this stew you all speak of? Is it like a curry but with no flavour?

Krispy pancakes

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

I think it's bits of sausages and potatoes and carrots in a watery mess. Like something I'd expect to be served in a Victorian prison. I've lived in Dublin most of my life and never actually seen it or heard of anyone I know eating it.

Sausages, rashers, spuds, carrots + onions - I think the original recipe would be cooked in stock of some sort, but i personally prefer potato soup, i also throw in some parsnips and barley, occasionally a few chickpeas.

You'd be hard pressed to find a more delicious meal!

This is a coddle I made for my family a few weeks ago. Some fundamentalists would argue that it's not pure because it has orange carrots, and everything should be pale, but I disagree. It was absolutely delicious. Really easy to make. Chop up some potatoes, carrots, rashers, sausages and onions. Parsnips are acceptable too. Add them to a pot of chicken stock. Throw in some barley and black pepper. Bring to the boil and simmer for for an hour.

If you look up recipes online, all you get is abominations. You do not cook it in an oven, and you do not brown the sausages or rashers first. This is the way.

Serve piping hot with some soda bread and more black pepper, washed down with a pint of mik.

They don't call it "mickey stew" for nothing.