I yearn for good old fashioned recipes!

All this talk of cheese pudding, makes me want one tonight, but we have curry instead, still, there’s always tomorrow!

Paddyan, don't we all, I had steak and kidney pudding one day this week and will have poached fish with cheese sauce tomorrow and roast lamb on Sunday I like to eat a wide variety of foods from a wide variety of cuisines, including British.

Thanks for the reminder of cheese pudding - I haven't made it for ages.
Sometimes I add a tin of tuna, flaked, and a small chopped onion.

Just had scouse, bloody marvelous.

* paddyann* , here’s my attempt. It wasn’t bad, but not as ‘ cheesy’ as I’d like. I’m going to try it again with Wensleydale.

MOnica I'd love to try scones in a National Trust cafe but I think the cost of flying to the UK from New Zealand might make it just a wee bit too expensive

Gonegirl I loosely drape some Clingfilm over my open recipe book when using it next to the stove.

Could you swim over?

I love cheese pudding. It is something we eat regularly.

I am an old fashioned cook, though we do have spaghetti Bol and Chinese stir fry on our regular list.
I am struggling to find meals that DH can eat as he has difficulty swallowing. He hates soup, complains that most things are too bitty or gritty. Wants to eat less meat, so yesterday I did a sausage casserole in the slow cooker, mainly to see if he liked the other ingredients, ( mix of dried pulses soaked overnight) but he said they were like gravel- not sure what I am doing wrong.
Cheese pudding might work for him. Thanks for that reminder.
I agree with the OP. Most recipes these days contain ingredients I don’t want to buy and then go to waste.
I also have IBS so I am never sure how things will affect me.

If you want old fashioned, simple recipes may I suggest you go to Amazon and look up the Glasgow Cookery Book. It was a set text book for the Glasgow College of Domestic Science ( The Do School). Many brides would be given one amongst their wedding presents.
No exotic ingredients whatsoever but plenty of recipes for tablet, scones pancakes , basic cakes etc. I wonder if any of our Scottish Gransnet have a copy?

Greyduster, the secret to getting a light, fluffy scone isn't the recipe but how they're made...literally throw them together, don't over handle them. I should know...I used to make thirty dozen a week for a NTS property. My grannies used to say that a scone wasn't worth eating if it took more than twelve minutes to cook!

Vegan was mentioned earlier. You could always make vegan versions of “normal” food - just use vegan milk (like oatmilk), vegan butter, vegan pastry, vegan mince, usual veg. There’s loads of vegan food in supermarkets now. Usually has the Vegan symbol on but alot doesn’t. Vegan Womble website is good. Just avoid meat, milk and eggs. I made a vegetable tart for dinner last night. Very easy to do.