Food Peculiar to your Region

[stumpy]

What food is peculiar to the region where you live?

Here it's 'Morning Rolls' with loadsa butter.

[Michelle]

A big pan of 'scouse' mmmmmmm the kids love it :13:

[Alpha]

its oat cakes that i suppose are pretty unique to this area

[stumpy]

A big pan of 'scouse' mmmmmmm the kids love it :13:

What's 'Scouse' Michelle?

[Michelle]

Its like a broth, steak mince, carrots, potatoes,onions and loads of seasoning, love it with crusty baguettes with loads of butter. Gorgeous in the winter :13:

[stumpy]

Mmmm..........sounds like my kind of winter nosh....do you serve it with beetroot?

[lyn]

ooh we had scouse tonight. i love it.
stumpy scouse is a stew this is whats in it
beef
lamb
carrots
spuds
onions
you can have white scouse
or you can add oxos and have brown scouse

[Michelle]

Yeah you can do, we dont like it here though. :D :D

[Michelle]

I prefer brown scouse Lyn and i hate it with diced meat, my mum made it with meat and it was gross, so i do it with mince :lol:

[lyn]

i love it with beef and lamb. more beef than lamb tho. i also like it with mince :lol: but the kids prefer the meat. once when they were all in school i made a pan of scouse as soon as they left in the morning and by the time they got home i'd scoffed the lot. it was a huge pressure cooker pan too.
you are supposed to eat scouse the day after you make it.

[Alpha]

i grew up with the stuff (love it with mince) but the smell of it cooking when its stewing steak is orriblus.
However my ex MIL used to be a bit posh (she was from Huyton) and put it in pies which was really nice.... how much more fattening could you get?
My mum makes corned beef hash (with mash potatoes) and puts that in pies its vile....

[Michelle]

Posh, Huyton omg :shock: :shock: where you from Alpha?

[Jan/Billy]

Bury black puddings - yuk yuk yuk yuk!

[stumpy]

Mmmm.........love black puddings on a Barm Cake with red sauce....yummmmmyy!!

[lyn]

oooh i love corned beef hash in a puff pastry pastie. mashed potato with corned beef and onion all mixed up.
black pudding is yum yum yum.
when i go home i buy black pudding from st johns market and loads of makeway curry http://smileys.on-my-web.com/repository/Food/eating-24.gif

[Alpha]

I'm from Crosby, but apparently years (and years and years) ago Huyton was full of tuppenny appeny snobs wasn't it? I think she just put on airs nd graces because my FIL was from knotty Ash.
However listened to this,
Air Hair Lo.....can one not tell i am now a posh cheshire bird..I was imported to weaken the breeding strain as webbed feet where becoming quite common in the late 60's.

[lyn]

well crosby can't be that posh alpha, us daltons have lived there too :lol: but i think kirkby were i was from was def the poshest place in the uk :lol:

[stumpy]

geez i'm the complete opposite, i grew up in the roughest part of town and posh folks were those who had matching shoes!!

[lyn]

shoes??????? where i was brought up we didn't have shoes :lol:

[stumpy]

shoes??????? where i was brought up we didn't have shoes :lol:

hahahah........superb Lyn :lol: :lol: :10:

[Alpha]

even our horse didn't have any shoes.....
but until recently i lived with a Cockney who would eat cockles and mussels all day every day

[stumpy]

does he eat jellied eel?

[lyn]

i love cockles too :P

[Ladylola]

Pease pudding here, lovely in a ham sarnie.

[lyn]

what is peas pudding. is it made with peas? if it is i bet i'd like that too. i love all peas. garden, marrowfat and mushy. mmmmnnn

[stumpy]

I love a big bowl of tomato soup with a HUGE portion of smash right in the middle of it.....loads of fresh chunky bread and lashings of butter. My wife leaves the room if ever I make it.....mmmm....yummy :12: :12:

[lyn]

ewwww stumpy thats gross :shock:

[stumpy]

that's what my good lady says but she loves me really.... :13: :12: :13:

[lyn]

:lol: :lol:
ok i will confess a food combination i love love love.
bread and milk. break up some bread into pieces, add a little sugar and top off with hot milk. mmmnn i might go and do myself a bowl now

[Alpha]

bloody hell you are all getting a bit strange for me now.
My mum makes something for my dad as a treat! (both me and my brother call it "sick")
it is cheese melted in milk with bread....yuergh! and you have it with sausage and bacon.

[Jan/Billy]

I love a big bowl of tomato soup with a HUGE portion of smash right in the middle of it.....loads of fresh chunky bread and lashings of butter. My wife leaves the room if ever I make it.....mmmm....yummy :12: :12:

Not sure about the mash, but I love the same but with cheddar cheese in the middle instead of mash mmmmmmmhhhhhhhhmmmmmmm

[lyn]

eewwww jan, cheese sounds worse than mash :lol: :lol: but then i don't like cheese. i really wish i did tho coz then when i fancy a butty there is always cheese in the fridge.

[Krisdt]

Stotties, saveloy dipss with pease pudding from dicksons and minchellas ice cream oohhhhh am hungry now.

[MightyMouth]

God, at last, someone else that doesn't like cheese. I was thinking I was the only one on the planet..... and cottage cheese looks like sick :09:

[Alpha]

With you on that one I can think of nothing worse than having to eat a lump of cheese. However i love cauliflower cheese.
And I have thought of another one which is delicious
Tomato Gravy...

[Michelle]

Oooh i love that, I like to cook sausages in it,mmmmmmm lovely :13:

[lyn]

eeewww i hate toms too. but i'm ok with a teeny bit of ketchup and i do like tomato soup. god, what is wrong with me :?
mightymouth and michelle, cheese proper stinks doesn't it. :09:
our chippy tried the battered and deep fried mars bars last winter. they weren't to popular which is a shame for them coz they can't cook chips to save their lives.
did you know that chippys here don't sell anything else. in kirkby we used to be able to buy stuff like fried rice and mums chippy near her in new brighton you can get pizza, kebabs or burgers.
every chippy in this town only sells chippy food. they think they're daring for selling bread rolls with butter :x

[Michelle]

Every single chippy here sells a huge menu of chinese food and kebabs as well as the usual chippy food, my fave at the mo is char sui fried rice! :D omg this thread is making me hungry :lol:

[lyn]

thats it. settled. i'm moving back home just for the chippy dinners :lol: :lol:

[PhilWill]

Where I lived previously (Stoke-on-Trent) it was Oatcakes, absolutley gorgeous on a Saturday/Sunday morning with cheese,eggs,bacon,sausage on em. Sadly they don't have them here.

[Michelle]

Phil you only have to say the word and I'm sure any number of people on here would gladly deliver some to you, in exchange for a weeks holiday of course! :D :D

[Ladylola]

[quote="lyn"]what is peas pudding. is it made with peas? if it is i bet i'd like that too. i love all peas. garden, marrowfat and mushy. mmmmnnn[/quote

Yeah it's made with pease, It's yellow and spreadable. luvly

[Simon]

Where I lived previously (Stoke-on-Trent) it was Oatcakes, absolutley gorgeous on a Saturday/Sunday morning with cheese,eggs,bacon,sausage on em. Sadly they don't have them here.


Yeah, a simple exchange. Holiday in Canada, in exchange for as much as you can eat oatcakes. Actually, let me revise that knowing how much you can eat......

;)

[Michelle]

I predict a mass invasion to Canada, armed with oatcakes :D

[Krisdt]

And heres me thinking I was mental for offering to courier some aveloys and pease pudding to my mate in the navy :roll: :lol:

[lyn]

phil, i have been practicing making oatcakes all morning :D now when can you send me the tickets :lol:

[PhilWill]

phil, i have been practicing making oatcakes all morning :D now when can you send me the tickets :lol:

We can sort something out I'm sure, First-class plane tickets for you and Oatcakes by the dozen in return please :p

[Michelle]

Hey! I'm coming with lyn ;) :D

[stumpy]

Hey! I'm coming with lyn ;) :D

Well don't make too much noise!! :o :o :o

[Nicola]

Seeing as I'm from good ole Norn Iron I am duty bound by honour and genetics to worship at the altar of the spud. Champ is the best way to have 'em - mash the potatoes whilst heating up scallions (spring onions to you posh types) and milk in a saucepan. Mix it into the potatoes and serve with loads of butter and salt :12:

What else... Irish stew, Ulster fry - in particular the soda bread and potato bread (the crap you get over here is NOT proper potato bread), wheaten bread, Tayto cheese and onion crisps, yellow man honeycomb stuff, dulse (dried seaweed), Club orange soda, barmbrack (sort of cinnamony raisiny bread stuff)... I wanna go home *stamps foot* :evil:

But seeing as I have lived here in sunny Scotland for the last 8 years I should probably also add some local specialities from here...

...deep fried pizzas, deep fried mars bars, deep fried smoked sausages, deep fried Scotch pies (which are revolting, well revolting looking, I've never been able to bring myself to try one), chips with 'sauce' (a combo of HP and vinegar peculiar to Edinburgh) and of course haggis, neeps and tatties. Och aye the noo! Nice stuff you get here includes Arbroath smokies and Mallaig haddock yum 8-)