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Kylie Selassie
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Mum's cooking
Sorry this thread is very sexist but I'm afraid my dad couldn't cook as well as my mum.
simpson's mum's sherperd's pie in the lasagne/moussaka thread got me all melancholy. Those of us who've lived through it know that it's a very sad day in your gastronomic life when you realise you'll never taste mum's cooking again. So, a thread to celebrate those wonderful warm dises that remind us of home - what was that special meal mum did/does when she knew you were coming home and you'd soooo look forward to it?
For me, Italian mama, so of course it involved pasta. It was this wonderful rigatoni bake. She'd take an enormous square glass oven dish, about 8 inches deep, into which would go the cooked rigatoni (the large ribbed tubes) then mixed in would go the tomato sauce with minced beef, garlic, onion and mushroom, black pepper and oregano, which would have been simmering on the stove for hours and hours as good pasta sauce should. Over that she'd pour 8 beaten eggs (yes, eight!) with a drop of milk, let it stand so the egg mixture seeped down and penetrated the whole dish - this gave a solidifying quiche effect when baked which bound together the pasta tubes and the meat. She'd top it with the creamiest bechemel sauce which I have never been able to imitate despite her instructions. Stick it in the oven on gas mark 4 for 40 odd minutes or until browning on top. Beautifully warming when hot, but the leftovers were equally good cold with salad. The egg effect meant you could serve blocks of it which stood up on the plate and didn't fall everywhere.
So, what dish reminds you most of mum's cooking?
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Re: Mum's cooking
Blimey Kylie lets have the recipe!
My mum cooked very very eclectic dishes and none which could really be called a signature dish. I guess Roast chicken and salad with a new potato salad with egg was my fave and chilled white wine. I still think roast chicken and lettuce is perfect food and a really good dressing of course and the juices of the chicken seeping through that as well yum!
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14/Mar/08, 15:15
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Blimey Kylie lets have the recipe!
Didn't I just give you it?
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14/Mar/08, 15:44
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Some but you kept a few secret ingredients out like the composition she gave you for the sauce!
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14/Mar/08, 18:59
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Some but you kept a few secret ingredients out like the composition she gave you for the sauce!
For a LARGE dish:
Sautée your minched beef (about 125g per person, so times 7 or 8) your 4-5 onions(depending on size), whole bulb of crushed garlic and mushrooms to your preference in virgin olive oil (or butter as you prefer). Add your black pepper and oregano, again to your preference but it's best not to be mean with your oregano. If you're still adding salt to your food (I'm not!) then a pinch of sea salt is allowed. For a really big dish you'd need 3 to 4 tins of plum tomatoes thrown in with all their liquid, and just a dash of tomato purée and a splash of Marsarla wine. Keep the sauce simmering on a very low heat for a minimum of an hour (if you can be in the kitchen for three or four hours, all he better, and as liquid evaporates, replace slowly with boiling water and just a little, but not too much beef stock).
My mum never really weighed and measured out - she did it by feeling and always seemed to know what looked right. I've found with Italian dishes myself that you just have to play around and find your own preference for ammounts - no really strict 25g of this and half a kilo of that.
I didn't mention that this needs to be washed down with a really good Chianti or Valpolicella.
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14/Mar/08, 21:10
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I think he thought I was going to be one of those, well you know, not quite right.
Shame you disappointed him uber!!!
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When I was in the forces I went home after a couple of years away and my Mum took me to the shops with her in order to have my pick of anything I wanted - no expense spared. (fatted calf and all that) I told her what I really wanted was her "mince and tatties".
She was actually a mediocre cook but an award winner when it came to cakes! We still salivate at the memory of her boiled fruit cake. Sadly I seem to have misplaced the recipe.
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