A Man's Suggestion

[Clover]

Mmm -love egg and chips.

[ZIZI]

Husband starts running the first British Airways customer service apprenticeship course on Monday so that is six weeks of going out at 6am and getting back at whatever time they finish (facilitators have to mark exams each day and make amendments to the programme on the go as it is a pilot) so we discussed yesterday how we were going to play it and I have had to be a lovely wife and say I will do all the cooking. At least I will have him home at weekends for six weeks although that means endless cookery and DIY programmes on Saturday and Sunday but I will live with it.

[Plantaholic]

I hope he has better behaved students this time Zizi

[Nanto2girls]

Boiled onion!!

My granddad used to have boiled onions with bread and butter.

Hubby loves egg and chips.Real chips though,we don't like oven chips.

A few months ago, I was cutting the grass one day when hubby came home, and I had some things cooking in the oven, I asked him to check the things that were cooking, he came back out, and said I looked in the oven but what am I looking for.
When I was cooking a roast dinner one day he asked me, how do you get everything ready at the same, 46 years experience I told him.

[Daisy]

Ooooh - proper egg and chips! At one time when I was a child i used to spend every Saturday at my best friend's house (my parents were always busy in the shop) and her mum always cooked egg and chips for our dinners! Brings back lots of happy memories.

We always had a chip pan at home - a large saucepan with a wire basket so you could life the chips in and out. She always used proper beef dripping which she got from our family's butcher's shop. Imagine the cholesterol and calories!! But they were fantastic chips especially if they were twice-cooked.

[Grauntie Mag]

This is OH's beef (!) with today's fish and chips too. Soggy chips. You can't beat chips cooked in dripping.
I liked mine spread on toast. (Dripping)

[Daisy]

GM - beef dripping isn't what it used to be is it! You'd get a goodly dollop off the Sunday roast and have it on toast on Monday!

[Nana]

Beef dripping was a treat in our house, so to have 'bread & drip' was really scrummy.

[Gemini]

I loved that in my childhood too

[Skye]

My mum used to run a small shop with accommodation behind it. One day my dad rushed into the shop while she was serving customers asking: "Where do we keep the cutlery"? They had been married 20 years by then, I let you guess mum's reaction..... No modern men then!

[Daisy]

Skye, I think your Dad did well to find the kitchen. I think most men left all the domestic things to their wives in those days. My dad would cook unusual meats but his father was a butcher so he was used to doing things like tongue! But I didn't know anyone else whose dad ever did any cooking.

[Plantaholic]

Yum, I remember the beef dripping on toast, especially if you got a bit of the brown jelly at the bottom of the dish.

[Daisy]

Yum, I remember the beef dripping on toast, especially if you got a bit of the brown jelly at the bottom of the dish.

Plant - stop it, you're making me feel hungry!