Tinned pilchards

I buy pilchards quite often for salads, sandwiches or fish pie. Not had any trouble getting them at Morrisons, Waitrose or via Ocado although I've noticed the small cans are not always available.

As children we used to have tinned pilchards in tomato sauce on toast for tea. Well mashed, all bits of bones removed!

Morrisons has always got them. We buy them for our dog. She loves them.

Our Tesco and Morrisons stock pilchards. I don’t eat them but my dogs love them

Just enjoyed a late lunch of mashed sardines on toast with chopped cherry tomatoes, delish!😋

Just how I like them Oreo - with a bit of vinegar added to the mashing.

ferry23

Just how I like them Oreo - with a bit of vinegar added to the mashing.

Or a lot of vinegar even 😁

Love sardines in oil but them from our coop every week not bought pilchards for years

M0nica

They are always in stock in my local Waitrose. I know because I buy them. As well as cold in salad and hot on toast, I also have several other recipes that use them, including an excellent pilchard curry.

I hope its better than the sardine curry recipe we made as students.

A can of sardines, a handful of sultanas and a spoonful of curry powder. Mash. Heat up.

If there's no money in the gas meter, skip the heating up bit.

Never, never, never, put dried fruit in a curry. Are you Australian by any chanc?. A friend of mine who lived in that country for a while, could never get to grips with their habit of putting dried fruit in curries. She used to refer to such dishes as Australian fruit salad.

M0nica

Never, never, never, put dried fruit in a curry. Are you Australian by any chanc?. A friend of mine who lived in that country for a while, could never get to grips with their habit of putting dried fruit in curries. She used to refer to such dishes as Australian fruit salad.

My mother used to put sultanas in a curry - usually made with the remains of a lamb roast. I’m talking way back here, probably early 60s.
Actually I think fruit can go well with spicy lamb - AFAIK there are several e.g. Turkish/N.African dishes that combine spicy lamb with e.g. apricots.

Aldi sells them here in tomato sauce, olive oil or some sort of curry sauce ( which I haven’t tried). Maybe we got the lot over here ?