British Expatriate Network

Mine would have to be a roast and cottage pie, yorkshire pudding with both mmmmmm.

I wish they had decent sausages here!

When I cook... lol ...roasts, shepherds pie, bangers (real ones) and mash and beans, mince and potatoes (different to shep pie), fish and chips, full brekkie when I've got the doings for it, does toast and golden shred count? Toad in the hole when I have real bangers, steak and kidney pie...been a while since I cooked properly altho I did last night!

Sarah

Shepherds Pie, Roast Beef of course with my Bisto gravey. English style brekkies - mmmmm - And if I could make pastry - I would make pies -but probably better for my waistline that I don't attempt to. mrgreen

Roast leg of lamb, with slashes to insert garlic cloves and sprigs of rosemary, or, with a mustard crumb coating, served with roasted onions, tates, peas and Yorkshires, made by him indoors cos he makes them the traditional way and not the Martha way with loads of eggs and cream. All served with lashings of proper meat juices gravy.

Cheese on toast with Lea& Perrin Steak sauce or Heinz tomato sauce.

Scrambled eggs with bits of smoked salmon and thin cut toast. Best served on a Sunday morning with a bottle of bubbly, before we get out of bed!!!!

One thing I really miss, Sainsburys danish back bacon, in a sandwich or on fried bread with crimini mushrooms. Yum. Wouldn't dare eat it now, mind, it could work as a euthanasia drug should i ever feel the need. grin

Yorkie pud mos' definite.

Fried egg on toast

Baked beans on toast

Marmite on toast

Cheese on toast

Same as Lee + shepherds Pie and I recently made apple crumble with custard

All of the above, plus sausage rolls, bread, chicken Kiev, spag bol and flapjacks.

Oh and pancakes on Jif lemon day!

Debs x smile

Beest's the main chef, but we cook all of the stuff here that we did there, plus fish 'n' chips. (Beest has perfected that now mrgreen)

Can't believe noones mentioned the extremely unglamorous beans on toast. Some mornings that cheers me up no end.

Has to be British Style beans though, none of this nancy Bush's beans or the fake American heinz beans.

Anyone mentioned curry? I mean its not really from home, but then again...

DW has also mastered Toad in the Hole and sausage rolls (both veggie and meat).

Ahem!!! Excuse me!? Look a few posts back. I have them in a jacket potato too! :grin:

A British friend of mine have a frequent debate however about beans. Here we get Heinz "Beans in Tomato Sauce" made in Canada. They ARE different to Brit beans, but not so different that I'm going to get my knickers in a twist.

She thinks the Canadian beans are revolting and only the Brit beans will do. The only place I know in the city that sells Heinz beans in the familiar blue and black tin is in an African shop in one of the most obscure parts of the city where stacks of them lie among cows' feet and spicy sauces. (The only other British thing they sell, bizarrely is Heinz Salad Cream.) The Brit ones ARE good and I DO enjoy eating them when I get them.

However, when my friend goes on about "proper" beans I remind her that baked beans are a very old American tradition too (mainly cooked by cowboys with bacon or pork fat) and so who knows what's proper and what's not??

Recently I've started to quite like Bar-b-q Beans and Beans in Maple Syrup, a revelation that made my friend give me a look that went way past revulsion.

Beans on toast.
Cheese on toast.
Do make fish and chips once in a while. Just chips more often.
Used to make corned beef hash but haven't in a long time.
Shepherds pie, (no corn ala american)
Bacon butties.

I definately still do beans, cheese or marmite on toast when I get the chance. Have to buy decent cheese though none of this rubbery Kraft crap.

I also still make curry and chili, mmmmmm great in the winter months but not typically British ;)

Every once in a while I'll make crumble, have to buy Birds custard though just isn't the same without it. The prob I find is no decent cooking apples.

So someone please tell me how on earth you make fish and chips?????? I'm more of a chick & Mushroom pie and chips girl really.

Here's the McZippy famous recipe http://forums.british-expats.com/viewtop...&forum=3&0