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Post by kathyo on Jan 15, 2010 11:33:34 GMT
hi all im just preparing,dinner and got to thinking. about the food,we had when we were young,i seem to remember a lot of bacon=cabbage,whitch my father loved(and we hated especially the cabbage)big pot of potatoes which now you would call organic.and lots of other veg,all fresh. i remember we had a lot of stew,i remember chicken stew was my favourite,or so i though. it was in later years. my brother billy told me, it was hare(i kid you not) god when i think of it now, we could have all got poisoned. their was no sell by date them days. and we were, all so happy and healthy. never herd of any one with anorexia,or any other eating disorders. i must say my favourite day was, of course pay day, when me mam got her check and me da got his wages of course his money paid the food bill. i still remember running home from school,at lunch time. knowing we were going to have fish and chips,and ginger cake i have never tasted, fish and chips like it ever since and then the tow pennies one for the black baby's and one to get sweets,we were spoilt for choice. when i think, of my poor mother rip.having to feed eleven people three times a day. what a remarkable woman. all the best kathyo
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Post by Eileen on Jan 15, 2010 11:45:17 GMT
Hi Kaytho,
You forgot to mention when we went out picking musrooms with Dad and then bringing them back home to Mam who would boil them in milk, adding lots of butter and pepper which we ate with home made brown bread. Do you remeber the delicious aroma of them cooking.
Eileen
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Post by kellquinn on Jan 15, 2010 15:11:45 GMT
Hi Kathyo and Eileenmarie Another Guest House The Gables approx 800 metres from Town Centre, it has swimming pool Sauna etc. cost 45euro pernight PP. Also recommended. phone No 0035345435330. Regards JoeyK
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Post by kathyo on Jan 16, 2010 12:15:48 GMT
hi joey thanks for that you are very kind,thank you we will certainly look in to it. im really looking forward, to hopefully meeting lots of people from the curragh. would it be possible to maybe meet in Mcdonagh mess that would be great cheers kathyo
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Post by mary carroll on Jan 16, 2010 20:10:39 GMT
Hi All, We also had a lot of stew, and bacon and cabbage, I love to cook the bacon and cabbage the way my mum(R.I.P) made it and my neighbour loves it however the bacon never tastes the same as home. I also cook the stew but never tastes the same as my mum made nothing does, and as you said Kaytho my mum also had to cook for eleven and I don't know how she done it. Another favourite was on a Friday we always had fish, haddock done in milk and onions something I love and still do, it's amazing how we strive to cook the meals we grew up having but can never achieve the taste like what our mums did. Well speaking for myself.
MaryC
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Post by mary carroll on Jan 16, 2010 20:14:36 GMT
Hi All, Me again another simple dish we had as kids mainly on a Friday as not allowed meat that day was fried eggs, mash beans and tomato soup, I love that to this date and on my way to Aussie was telling my friends about it, who had a good laugh but I obviously made it sound lovely they are going to cook it when we get back, but I told them the eggs have to be fried hard and not runny as it wouldn't taste the same. Simple but lovely.
MaryC
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Post by Kentgal on Jan 16, 2010 20:52:06 GMT
Hi Lads My all time favourate was the fried breakfast on Sunday morning. The psychological taste lingers...............yet to be actually replecated today. 'Um um!! The white pudding, tasty bacon with double yellow yolked eggs on fried soda bread, white pudding, freshly picked mushrooms (when in season) with loads of more warm buttered soda bread dipped in fry grease washed down with a big tin mug of cha. Second best comes my sweet tooth-Puddings.........Bread & butter pud, Sago and rice.
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Post by kathyo on Jan 17, 2010 19:07:33 GMT
hi all i also love bubble and squeak, bit of cabbage potato carrot, and onion. couple of rashers.simple but lovely. all the best kathyo
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Post by rose5mcdonaghtce on Jan 18, 2010 10:12:46 GMT
Hi All,
Am sure you all remember the army rashers, anything that came in the rations we referred to as being army. No water leaking from them on the pan when you fried them, and you had enough fat to fry the sausages and eggs from the rashers. The Da had a plot and in early summer he would bring up baby new potatoes the very first of the crop, Mam would boil them and we would have them with butter and salt for our supper have never tasted anything like them since.
The cocoa and brown bread before going to bed. The block of ice cream in the summer for desert on Sunday, wrapped in newspaper in the basin of cold water, while we had the dinner.
Saturday nights, shoes all polished, the marrowfat peas soaking and the jelly setting on the table. Coming down the block at 12.30 for dinner, passing the back of the houses, the lovely aromas coming out of the kitchen windows.
If for some reason you could not have the dinner at 12.30 and this was very rare in any house, you had a tea dinner instead we had'nt heard of lunch, that was a packet of sandwiches brought someplace.
Rose.
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Post by andybrennan on Jan 18, 2010 11:28:14 GMT
Ah Rose sure arnt you making the mouth water,
them rashers were might true no water many is the time I awoke as midnight approached on a Friday to the aroma and sound of them sizzling on the pan wafting around the house, needless to say I would get up with some excuse to get a share,
Andy
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Post by andybrennan on Jan 18, 2010 11:32:30 GMT
Back to the grub Rose , Another favourite of mine the beef heart stuffed or otherwise, and the rendering of the suet to make the dripping you would think the house was on fire extracting the oil from the suet.
Andy
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Post by afcmoore on Jan 18, 2010 12:04:09 GMT
Hi All. I remember a fish and chip shop called Stamps in Wexford that sold Pig trotters and supplied a basin of water and towels to wash the hands.The trotters tasted lovely after a few pints of guinn but made a right old sticky mess on the hands & round the lips.Not sure of the spelling of the Irish word for them C==B--s. Cheers Anthony
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Post by andybrennan on Jan 18, 2010 13:50:20 GMT
Crúbeens, Tony
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Post by afcmoore on Jan 19, 2010 23:41:35 GMT
Hi Andy. Did you ever have them and did you enjoy. Cheers A.
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Post by andybrennan on Jan 19, 2010 23:46:10 GMT
Greets Tony,
Alas I must confess never ate the Trotters my father did gorge on them but I could never stomach the fat, grizzle, or jellied part of meat, dont get me wrong there are other cuts of offal I did and still enjoy.
Andy
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