British Food

[machersjohn]

I have followed this topic but alas there is no reference to great Scottish dish of Stovies. This gourmet meal is probably the finest left over dis in the world. I combine all leftovers from Sunday roast dinner and any others that might be hanging around. We would run home from school on a Monday we knew Stovies awaits us a truly warm tasty meal but alas there where never seconds. I do think my brother and sisters were rather greedy . Ah what memories.

[Jack_Batty]

I have followed this topic but alas there is no reference to great Scottish dish of Stovies. This gourmet meal is probably the finest left over dis in the world. I combine all leftovers from Sunday roast dinner and any others that might be hanging around. We would run home from school on a Monday we knew Stovies awaits us a truly warm tasty meal but alas there where never seconds. I do think my brother and sisters were rather greedy . Ah what memories.

Looks good! I’d definitely try it! Some of the pictures of it on Google make it look like a hash. Others make it look like a thick stew, and yet others make it look like a soup. Almost sounds like the thick version, if griddled up, could turn into that bubble & squeak dish that has been mentioned previously.

[machersjohn]

I have followed this thread but no mention of the gourmet dish of leftovers . Stovies are the most tasty dish ever. We would run home on a Monday knowing Stovies awaits. This dish is made from all that was left over from Sunday roast in our case mostly roast venison and all left over veg. I am sure our mum cooked more on Sunday to ensure she could produce our beloved stovies on Monday. I still make it but now even better as i am old enough to have cool beer as an added delight

[machersjohn]

Yes it can be wet that is with a sauce or as i prefer dry with toasted bits hence small thin tatties and bigger taties . It is totally delish

[dundrillin]

Ah stovies yes left over roast beef,sautéed onions,tatties, a wee bit lard . Cooked slowly but still can’t get it taste like my mother made 60 years ago. Oh forgot serve with beetroot and oatcakes

[machersjohn]

yes memories . i have strived to replicate my mothers meat loaf. Nearly impossible here . However, i am close using pig offal as opposed to venison. When my mum made it was venison offal and any other bits left over from butchering.
I make with pig hearts ,liver, lungs belly pork. pork shoulder and spices . herbs. With home made pickled onions and beetroot amazing delish.

[STEVE G]

Having spent much of my younger life eating British institutional food, leaving school at 16 for ten years in the military, I completely understand why much enthusiasm is shown on this thread for dishes made out of leftovers. That's because no one wanted to eat the meal in the first place, it was bland nothingness until you had a second attempt at cooking it!

[centermid7]

I've hated every drop or it since I was just a lad. Total crap IMO. Under seasoned, uninspired, often served in a #2 washtub with something that's described as "gravy" but really more like soup. Really? Pies and battered fish is the best we can do? Nay, Nay I say , , , , However, the leftovers might be the best of it.

Cheers

[caller]

Let's be honest, modern British cuisine is now up there with the best in the World. Here, we're talking of the old traditional food of days of yore. Apart from going to a nice Country pub for a Sunday roast, I never went out to a restaurant to eat any of the dishes talked of here.

Although I still recall eating at pie and eel shops, restaurants selling nothing but fish and chips (or pies, pasties, saveloys and the like), but that would be for lunch at work, or shopping on a Saturday.

Nowadays, places selling the modern take on traditional food would often be my favourite place to eat when in the UK. My local pub in the next village along was exceptional. A great pub with restaurant or eat in the bar. The best starter I have ever eaten came from there. I lived in the middle of shooting, hunting, fishing and riding country, so the menu had dishes introduced as 'tracked and shot by your host' and his starter of carpaccio of venison, served with chunks of home made black pudding, served on a bed of rocket and celeriac, with a simple balsamic jus was just heavenly. I could feel the iron coursing through my veins as I was eating!

[dtaai-maai]

Let's be honest, modern British cuisine is now up there with the best in the World. Here, we're talking of the old traditional food of days of yore. Apart from going to a nice Country pub for a Sunday roast, I never went out to a restaurant to eat any of the dishes talked of here.

Although I still recall eating at pie and eel shops, restaurants selling nothing but fish and chips (or pies, pasties, saveloys and the like), but that would be for lunch at work, or shopping on a Saturday.

Yes, a different ball game altogether. My main childhood memories of 'eating out' (which, frankly, are few and far between), apart from fish & chips of course, consist of seaside 'tea shops' and 'caffs', no restaurants. The nearest I got to foreign food was tinned spaghetti and macaroni cheese!

As for mother's home cooking, my mum, much as I loved her, was definitely from the overcooked beef and soggy veg school of thought... It made even boarding school fare seem good by comparison.

I was lucky enough to do several exchange visits to France (and one to Germany) in my mid-teens, which opened my eyes to what a delight food could be, and then spent my gap year in Bordeaux.

[HHTel]

restaurants selling nothing but fish and chips

I can't remember the name, but when I was a school lad, there was a fish and chip restaurant in Hull town covering 2 floors and always very busy. They only did Fish and Chips! It must have been one of the biggest in England at the time.

[dtaai-maai]

^^The Gainsboro?

[pharvey]

restaurants selling nothing but fish and chips

I can't remember the name, but when I was a school lad, there was a fish and chip restaurant in Hull town covering 2 floors and always very busy. They only did Fish and Chips! It must have been one of the biggest in England at the time.

Back in days gone by, I worked on a big job in Tioxide Grimsby and "lived" in Cleethorpes (not a million miles from Hull) - the "big" Fish & Chip restaurant "chain" then being "Harry Ramsden's"

[HHTel]

After a bit of a google, I remember it now. The Gainsborough Fish and Chip restaurant. It went through several phases and owners eventually finishing up as a pub. Closed in the early 90's.

[barrys]

As for mother's home cooking, my mum, much as I loved her, was definitely from the overcooked beef and soggy veg school of thought... It made even boarding school fare seem good by comparison.

I was lucky enough to do several exchange visits to France (and one to Germany) in my mid-teens, which opened my eyes to what a delight food could be, and then spent my gap year in Bordeaux.

I wonder what the students coming the other way thought then........