Reply to: Cooking for foreigners

[norrahe]

Hey, that is Scottish dish!

You obviously didn't read the original post........

[istvan]

Haggis, neeps and tatties.

Hey, that is Scottish dish!

[Lockhouse]

Beef and ale stew with suet dumplings.

[norrahe]

chicken tikka masala?

isnt that the most british dish nowadays?

I was toying with the idea of a curry...

[d000hg]

Hot-pot? Toad in the hole?

[norrahe]

Give them Colcannon and a sausage and smack them if they call it Stamppot.

I was tempted to do that and see the disappointed looks on their faces

[Mich the Tester]

Give them Colcannon and a sausage and smack them if they call it Stamppot.

[norrahe]

The last time we had friends over from Holland I did full beef roast (with yorkies OFC) & trifle all terribly British, they loved it

Would love to do that, but unfortunately I'm limited by the miniscule combi oven with one shelf that cloggies have in their houses, this one also decides when it may or may not cook things to temperature as well . Am kinda missing my double sized oven with accompanying single oven in my house in blighty. Thems the downsides of renting.

Also they haven't quite grasped the concept of aging their beef, most of which seems to be imported from intensively reared farms in Ireland and tastes of nowt. Thankfully I have found a butcher that farms his own meat, but nothing quite beats 2 month aged beef

[Halo Jones]

The last time we had friends over from Holland I did full beef roast (with yorkies OFC) & trifle all terribly British, they loved it

[norrahe]

How about getting out and forraging for some wild ingredients?

Just did a wild garlic and marscapone tagliatelle - was frikkin delicious. Can't get much more native than that. Well, the garlic anyway...

Unfortunately my foraging days are over, especially here with the limited soil types.

Though the neighbours have wild garlic growing in their front garden ( though not sure I want cat p!ss flavoured garlic).

[SandyD]

Mmmm, I love cinnamon. I always put it in an apple pie.

Yes, I thought everyone put cinnamon on apple pies!!

[mudskipper]

Irish stew is the work of the devil

certainly is the way my mother and my aunt used to make it, I have nightmares of boiled to death rubbery, fatty lamb, veg that no longer resemble veg, all looking lovely and insipid.

The cloggies put cinnamon in their apple pies ( actually they put it in everything).

Coddle certainly sounds interesting, I have my own home made sausages, but I'd have to cure the bacon.

Mmmm, I love cinnamon. I always put it in an apple pie.

[SimonMac]

Cook slowly and loudly, oh that's only talking to foreigners!

[wurzel]

Having some cloggy friends round for dinner and thought it would be interesting to do a mix of traditional Irish and English dishes.

What dishes would people think best represent their respective country of origin?

Now if only I could get away with doing a full Irish

How about getting out and forraging for some wild ingredients?

Just did a wild garlic and marscapone tagliatelle - was frikkin delicious. Can't get much more native than that. Well, the garlic anyway...

[Bunk]

Haggis, neeps and tatties.

WSS

Washed down with Irn Bru, and followed by a nice whisky.