Monday 28 January 2013

Favorite Meals

With money tight and getting tighter, are you too turning to good old fashioned cooking. Are you turning to those meals that you loved as a child, when your parents had little money and needed to eke out the food.

Well, one of our researchers remembers his firm favorite and shares it with you:

Onion Surprise

To cook

1. Top and tail 4 large onions
2. Place the onions in a boiling pan of stock
3. Boil the onions in the stock for at least 30 minutes, or until soft and mushy

To serve

Place one slice of bread in a serving dish (butter optional) and place one onion on top of it. Drizzle some stock onto the inion and serve immediately.

What are your favorite childhood recipes that you would like to share with other readers?

Wales - Spiritual Home of Leeks and Onions


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18 comments:

  1. Infirmus Cygnus28 January 2013 at 18:24

    I like onions as much as the next man, but that's bordering on overdose. Cheese on toast with onion mmm.

    Crispy pancakes as they made them in the 1970's. Tried 'em a couple of years ago. They seem to have removed the salt and the flavour from the filling, and the pancake had a plaster texture.

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    1. scratching my head28 January 2013 at 19:52

      Actually, I never had it, but my mum & dad used too. I also knew someone and that was their tea, but that was during the war. I hated onions as a kid, then loved them through my twenties through most of my forties and now they hate me, revenge I guess

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  2. Unknown28 January 2013 at 18:31

    I used to bake a variant on this meal - I believe it was a wartime recipe.

    You basically mix the onions as above into a white sauce, adding any offcuts of cheese.

    Then put some baked beans into an oven proof dish and pour over the white sauce and bake for about 1/2 hour. It tastes a lot better than it sounds.

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    1. scratching my head28 January 2013 at 20:06

      any particular brand of baked beans?

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    2. Unknown28 January 2013 at 20:14

      There is only one brand... I can't imagine eating anything but Heinz.

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  3. Embembooshkin28 January 2013 at 18:32

    I'm obsessed with Nigel Slater for reasons unknown.One of his most interesting quick recipes is stir fried cabbage.

    1 Heat olive oil in a frying pan
    2,Add cabbage,knock around for a few seconds.
    3,Eat.

    It's a bit too much prep for me.I think this recipe would benefit from an onion or 2.

    Robin! I've gone unknown again.Be a love and sort it when you've got a second or 2.Thanks you.

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    1. Unknown28 January 2013 at 18:33

      Eh? I think you might need to log in!

      Are you supposed to slice the cabbage or cook it whole?

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    2. Embembooshkin28 January 2013 at 18:46

      I think you slice it the way you would in an average Chinese style stir fry.It would look more like a Tracey Emin creation if you left them whole.

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    3. Infirmus Cygnus28 January 2013 at 18:46

      While we're on the subject of Site Admin, has a worm hole struck or are we on Pacific Time? I appear to be posting 8 hours ago.

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    4. Embembooshkin28 January 2013 at 18:54

      I've signed in but nothing has changed. The time thing was freaking me out too.I get confused at the best of times.

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    5. Unknown28 January 2013 at 19:53

      Site Admin.... Must rush because I've got to clear the kitchen after trashing it making chocolate eclairs.

      I've corrected the timezone. It thought we were in California because I hadn't bothered setting it up right!

      Losing your identity... Below the box, it should say 'Replay as:' then give you a choice of loads of options. One of them should be you, unless you aren't you so stop impersonating yourself.

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    6. scratching my head28 January 2013 at 19:54

      One of my mums stranger recipies was fried white cabbage mixed with cooked pasta...hey what can I say, money was tight

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    7. Unknown28 January 2013 at 19:57

      My mother used to buy cake mixes and pastry mixes from 'Weigh and Save'. When they got home they were in plain bags.

      As a consequence we once had meat pie with a cake topping.

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    8. scratching my head28 January 2013 at 20:01

      Another of my dads recipies was white bread moulded into balls and jam injected into the middle. I think he was trying to make homemade doughnuts, but he wasn't a great cook, nor a great dad

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    9. Unknown28 January 2013 at 20:12

      We'll need to start talking about South Notherners and North (or proper) Northerners. The whole zone south of the Mersey is pretty suspect already.

      I hear that the children have 'School Lunch' served by 'Dinner Ladies'.

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    10. Infirmus Cygnus28 January 2013 at 21:10

      Dinner, Dinner, DINNER!!

      Lunch is for thieving Saxons.

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    11. scratching my head28 January 2013 at 23:07

      Well, given I am from Newcastle (oup north)- you are all southerners to me. So I therefore suggest the boundary should be Durham, if you live north of there your a true northerner, if you live south in places like Leeds, York, Moanchester - your definitely a soootherner

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    12. Embembooshkin28 January 2013 at 23:51

      I was suspended due to the fact they don't believe my real name is Embembooshkin Chickentown. I have given them my real name Em Bembooshkin. It's pending.

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