Your favourite meal?

Chicken waldorf salad, followed by bilberry tart. I'm starving now, with all this talk of wonderful food.

One of my favourite meals is seeded cod/haddock fillet, home-made chips with loads of salt and vinegar, and baked beans. And we have it every Friday. Also like roast dinner cooked either by me or DD2. And I like tiggypiro's choice too.

All of the above. Except tripe.

My DH seduced me with warm crusty rolls, butter (real butter) and condensed milk. It worked. We sometimes have a nostalgic trip with Don Williams playing in the background.

My favourite meal though is roast turkey with all the trimmings including home made bread sauce, cranberry sauce, stuffing of all types, local chipolatas, roasties ala Jamie Oliver - mouth watering now.

Mexican Refried Beans Nachos. It's basically Refried beans in a thick tomato sauce topped with cheese and baked on a bed of nachos served with Mexican dips, tomatoes, spring onions and avocados. I found the recipe in a cookery book imaginatively titled 1000 Vegetarian Recipes. It cost me £4.99 many years ago and was worth every penny for this one recipe which is our family favourite and the only dish we make on a regular basis.

Tonight we are having sausage, mash, peas and gravy. I've decided that's my favourite - today!

love tripe but can;t get it anywhere near me now

In the late 50s I was in Est Africa with the Middle East Airforce Band, for about six months. On paydays, we would swarm to the New Stanley Hotel in Nairobi, where lunch was a massive seven shillings - and the menu had seven courses! I suppose you were meant to pick and choose, but we used to go through the card!

At Christmas, we had a twelve course lunch, and a thirteen course dinner - total damage for the day 25 bob!

No, AnnoD, I saw them but never fancied them. A Scots colleague swore by deep-fried haggis.

papaoscar, haven't you missed something? Deep fried Mars Bar?

Food, wonderful food! I remember in Glasgow you could have what they called a 'hot pea special' at the chippie. Mushy peas on a bed of chips with glorious thick brown gravy on top, and if you were feeling particularly worldly, a squirt of curry sauce. All washed down with a can or two of Irn Bru. Even the thought of it these days almost brings on a faint!

Tripe and onions simmered in milk, like my dad used to cook.
Chewy, but delicious.

Ooo chip butties. Yum

I do enjoy roast chicken dinners with apple sauce and stuffing, good home made gravy, followed by apple pie and custard, and there are lots of other meals that come a close second.......but, once or twice a year, a chip butty goes down very well. White bread, lashings of butter and home made chips.

On Sunday, a few of us are driving to Southport for fish and chips by the beach - tastes so much nicer at the seaside.

I adore smoked haddock.....one of the best things I ever ate in a pub near York was smoked haddock on a bed of fork mashed new potatoes and spinach with a cheese sauce.......Also had it once served as a starter; served on bed of very thinly sliced beef tomatoes and red onions, cheese on top then grilled, a sort of smoked haddock rarebit, my local pub used to do that.....must remind them

Couldn't possibly choose. When I was a kid my mother would fry bacon, add baked beans to the frying pan and serve the lot with mashed potato. It was delicious. I don't eat fried food now but one of these days I'm going to treat myself to that.

Yes its a consolation on bad weather days

right now I would settle for a fish finger sarnie with ketchup.

Yes newist you do yourselves alright!

newist, you do live in foodie paradise!

Oh this is so difficult, so many meals and so little time!Do you think we get a bit food obsessed as we get older?To compensate hmmn?
I like almost everything that has been written so far.You can't beat a great cooked breakfast[ we have one every Sunday, if we have the time.]I love shepherds pie and mashed swede followed by apple pie and custard [ tiggypiros choice.]I also love almost any roast dinner. I also love a really good chicken korma and pilau rice. Drool.

I am lucky where I live, there's a peat smoke house 2 miles down the road. I buy at local rates Hot smoked salmon, smoked scallops and sea trout etc.
A friend gives me live lobster crabs and langoustines. I pick my own cockles and mussels. In October I buy a whole carcass of venison.
My favorite meal though is a stack of smoked bacon sandwiches, with soft thick sliced white bread and tomato ketchup

In summer. Fresh North Atlantic prawns, Scottish poached salmon fillet or smoked slices plain or gravadlax and lobster. All served cold with a side salad and a good helping of aioli. A chilled bottle of Chablis Premier Cru. Not a pudding fan so a selection of cheese and oatcakes to follow.

Christmas dinner, especially if all the family are present.
(I feel grammatically that should be 'is present' but it somehow feels strange.)
We usually start with smoked salmon, then turkey, pigs in blankets, stuffing, lots of veg, gravy, then Christmas pudding and cream.

An image of lamb's liver with smoky bacon, onion gravy, fluffy mashed potatoes and garden peas has suddenly appeared in front of me, followed by fruit jelly and icecream, topped off by a nice cool ginger beer shandy...