Meals you have enjoyed but not your day to day meals

One dish my mum used to make when I was young and that was a bacon clanger
Mick

KatyK, thanks for the heads up that Lidl sell nasi goreng. That's probably the one we bought and ate (and loved) regularly when we lived in Germany back in the day. We haven't got a local Lidl, but I'll be going to one now!

I had chicken tikka off the bone and a spinach and paneer curry for lunch on Tuesday in the same basement restaurant I first ate them in 1972. My most recent craving is for khachapuri, which we had in a tiny Georgian cafe in Vilnius a few months ago.

My Mum's steak and kidney pie, nothing else comes close.
Pusser's apple crumble. (When I was in the Wrens, don't know what the chefs did with their apple crumble but it was so good).

Nasi Goreng wise I have had a ready made from Waitrose and its not the same, I was even tempted to put a fried egg on top of meal as it was how it was served when the Airman's mess in RAF.
Mick

My grandmother's Wednesday dinner. She was not well off and ate simply: Onions cooked long and slow in butter until deliciously caramelised, then a rich gravy was added to them, served with baked beans and floury potatoes that melted into the gravy.

Last year I was taken to the 'Gilbert-Scott' at St Pancras station for lunch. The whole experience from arriving at 12.30pm for aperitifs before lunch, until finally leaving after coffee in the lounge at 5.00pm was sheer bliss. Perfect quiet service, wonderful food, perfectly cooked. I actually cannot remember what I ate, only that it was perfectly cooked and wonderful eating. Add the company of three people I love. Heaven!

Good God, Alima I hope there wasn't any Pusser's involved! You'd have wobbly legs without actually going to sea! DH drinks it - strong stuff!
Come on then, Mick, what is a bacon clanger?

too many to list
altho i am at this moment making szechuan chicken,stirfry broccoli and thai fried rice

and a bottle of plum wine to complete it

DH used to make a good nasi goreng and always put egg on top.
Now, I must remind him of that and get him to try again.

Pusser's Rum - apparently very good stuff. I'll take your word for it, although I admit to having had a sippers.

SIL makes an excellent goulash.

W11girl - yes, recipe please!

mmm, onion gravy M0nica, sounds delicious.

It seems quite a few of us remember Vesta Chinese meals which I really used to enjoy. I used to love my grandma's steamed apple pudding with suet pastry but hated green vegetables until I got older and learned they didn't have to be boiled to a mush

I love calamari provided it is cooked nice and crispy and whitebait with the same proviso.

A bacon clanger s also known under another name but?
Its a suet pudding with streaky bacon and onion the version I had was like a roll with the suet pastry then the bacon and onions added when rolling over then steamed.
Mick

Delicious and healthy too then Mick!
Well - a bit more healthy than syrup suet pudding and custard.

Aha! My mum used to make that too, Mick! I made it once for my family - I was the only one that liked it, but it wasn't as good as my mother's. She would sometimes make soup with a bacon hock, and some of the meat from the hock would be used to make a bacon roll if there was enough. Delicious.

Better still is a Buckingham clanger; meat and vegetables one end and jam the other.

My mother-in-law, born and lived nearly all her life in Bucks, said farm labourers regularly took them out into the fields for lunch in her childhood. We did find a baker that did them in Princes Risborough, or near there and bought a couple. They were rather nice.

What I was also thinking of was a Norfolk Clanger they all seem to have a similar theme.
Suet puddings but the sweet version like Jam Roly Poly , I think it was a case of when we still had rationing meals like the clangers were popular as a cheap meal which was a filler although would be frowned today by food programmes on TV.
Mick

For nostalgia - my first curry my mother took me to have when I was 14. Beef curry, boiled rice and parata, followed by lychees in syrup to cool my mouth down! eating spaghetti bolognese in my teens with my friends at a local cafe after a night out (often). My grandmother made the best steak and kidney pie ever, have never tasted any pastry like it since or gravy.

This morning, brunch in the village pub. I had blueberry pancakes (huge) with syrup and a cup of tea. Delicious!