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Top three dinners

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pollyparrot Mon 14-Mar-16 19:53:18

I'm not such a pudding person, I prefer my dinner. These are my top three.

Roast chicken, stuffing, roast potatoes, carrots, peas, sprouts, gravy.

Steak and kidney pie, with mash and peas.

Fish, chips and mushy peas.

Which dinners do you like best?

Jayh Tue 15-Mar-16 13:29:55

My favourite dinner is home made beef stir fry.
My son amazed us all by making a delicious roast chicken dinner yesterday.
I also like fish and chips from the chippy.
Now I am about to start a 24 hour fast in preparation for a hospital appointment tomorrow. Ah well. My next dinner will be my favourite whatever it is. ?

rosesarered Tue 15-Mar-16 13:04:34

Indinana I have always liked food that you can just shovel up, and there's nothing wrong with my teeth, maybe am just lazy.grin
My faves are,
Chicken Korma and rice,
Roast chicken/turkey dinner and veg,
Really good smoked fish fishcakes.(I want a 4th! Yorkshire fish and chips and mushy peas, the peas must have salt added to them.)

Elrel Tue 15-Mar-16 12:56:22

Most chicken outside farmers' markets tastes of nothing anyway compared with those of the 1940s, 50s and 60s. Simply roasted they were to be looked forward to on special occasions.

Willow500 Tue 15-Mar-16 12:33:38

Everything 'tastes' of chicken when you have anosmia 'sigh'

GillT57 Tue 15-Mar-16 12:00:48

Roast chicken with roast potatoes, yorkshire puds, cabbage, leeks, carrots, peas, stuffing, lashings of gravy

Crab salad

Smoked haddock with a poached egg

Paella

MargaretinNorthant Tue 15-Mar-16 11:44:27

Teetime
re everything tasting of chicken. When we were in Australia we were given a taste of crocodile..........guess what it tasted like? They were fed on old broiler chickens so I shouldn't have been surprised. It was a bit rubbery though.

jinglbellsfrocks Tue 15-Mar-16 11:27:23

Waitrose. Yes.

maturefloosy Tue 15-Mar-16 11:21:09

Oooh! a Waitrose lady! - - grin - - waves hello
I could name my three favourite wines though - - or has that been done to death too - - - wine

jinglbellsfrocks Tue 15-Mar-16 11:17:52

smile I will go and see if I can control the nice man in Waitrose. smile #bouttimetoo

maturefloosy Tue 15-Mar-16 11:15:21

I am fairly new on here Pollyparrot and think any topic you are interested in is a good one and the Gransnet old timers should go and be 'controlling' elsewhere.!
I like anything someone else prepared and cooked for me too. smile

tanith Tue 15-Mar-16 11:05:49

My favourites are

Steak pie made with suet crust and any vegs.

My own chicken curry with wild rice and green beans

Roast beef and all the trimmings .. plenty of roasties and gravy made from the juices.

OH's favourites would be

Roast lamb and all the trimmings.

Sausage mash and mushy peas

Steak pie with suet crust.

Indinana Tue 15-Mar-16 10:59:36

I don't like food that's hard work - steak, gammon and so on. My teeth aren't up to it and by the time I get near the end it's all stone cold sad.

So my favourites are things like (and this is not an exclusive list!)

Cottage pie with baked beans
Lasagne/cannelloni
Any casserole with meat cooked till it's falling apart.

In other words, food you can just shovel up grin

Teetime Tue 15-Mar-16 10:48:10

As to the 'weird' stuff belladonna do you remember dear Terry Wogan going on about food insisting that everything tasted of chicken anyway. DH had frogs legs in a restaurant we were in Paris I didn't fancy them but had a small bite to say I had tried - guess what they tasted of? Chicken! smile

Bellanonna Tue 15-Mar-16 10:35:39

Everything and anything. I'm so easy to feed! Agree with you PP in that I prefer the main course and I'm not bothered about puddings - I prefer fresh fruit. I love a casserole cooked for several hours in the slow cooker, or soup from the soup-maker, pasta (spagbol or puttanesca in particular), egg and chips as comfort food) ..... Well just about anything really. I've never tried snails or frogs' legs or anything "weird".

bookdreamer Tue 15-Mar-16 09:45:49

This is making me laugh!

jinglbellsfrocks Tue 15-Mar-16 09:43:38

shock pollyparrot said the eff word first! She called me a 'miserable fucker'.

I stand by my original contribution to this thread. smile

Charleygirl Tue 15-Mar-16 09:39:23

jingl I am afraid that your replies are appalling and totally unnecessary. Some of us are not used to such language. We do not need your blessing, we will do what we want, thank you in a more refined manner.

I like lamb Jalfrezi, pilau rice from an Indian restaurant

Macaroni cheese

Fish and chips from my local chippie.

I am cheap to feed

pollyparrot Tue 15-Mar-16 09:35:32

jinglbellsfrocks As you can see, we took fuck all notice of those with the t-shirt, long may that continue. grin

I like what I consider to be old fashioned English food. If I asked my son the same question he'd probably say, some type of pasta, curry and rice and pizza. How times change.

jinglbellsfrocks Tue 15-Mar-16 09:24:55

I guess it's just that some of us have been here longer than others. So it's a bit 'got the t-shirt'.

Do carry on. With my blessing. smile

pollyparrot Tue 15-Mar-16 09:22:30

Jinglbellsfrocks grin

jinglbellsfrocks Tue 15-Mar-16 09:22:22

That was to pollyparrot. smile

With much love, of course. smile

jinglbellsfrocks Tue 15-Mar-16 09:21:20

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

hildajenniJ Tue 15-Mar-16 08:52:17

My favourites are,
A chicken curry, nann bread, vegetable rice.
Roast beef, Yorkshire pudding, roast and mashed potatoes, carrots peas and cauliflower.
Fish, with anything.

Alima Tue 15-Mar-16 08:37:38

Yes, I like food too.

If it is me doing the cooking, when it comes out as it should, I love my macaroni cheese made with the strongest Cheddar and a bit of chilli. We fight over the crusty bit on top.
Spag Bol made with bacon.
Bit of a cheat this but in the summer love salad, not just eating it but the smell too.

If someone else is cooking then it is roast beef with all the trimmings and horseradish sauce.
Pub burgers though these days can never eat all the roll too.
Singapore Chow Mein from the takeaway.

Always need to finish off with strong black coffee. Never felt the need to drink with a meal, is it just me?

NanaandGrampy Tue 15-Mar-16 08:19:01

Food is always a good topic :-)

Mine would have to be a flo's 6 oz filet steak with all the trimmings from the Longhorn Steakhouse Kissimmee ( im specific if nothing else :-) )

Lamb chops, new potatoes, peas mint sauce and good gravy

My home made Pathia curry, pilau rice ( and a peshwari naan and onion bhahji from the local take away)

and now I'm hungry!!!!