From age 6 or so, it was my contribution to Sunday dinner. Much better!
Like this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/realmintsauce_67706
Speaking subjectively as a South Asian person, there is not a single thing I find appealing about the Full English, visually or tastewise. However, your sweet dishes and desserts are very good indeed.
Huh? It's the worst way of preparing meat combined with the worst way of preparing vegetables, managing to destroy both flavour and texture of both. Having grown up in Britain, the memes are on point when it comes to traditional British cooking (though no reflection of the wealth of cooking that actually exists in Britain today).
I don't think every family in Britain automatically has a good chef. Now if we're going to talk about leaks. Ewww. And boiled brussel sprouts. FML.
Roasted vegetables can be nice; boiled vegetables not so much, and those are more closely associated with British tradition.
> Juicy meat that falls off the bone.
Roasting is the least effective way to achieve this. Dried-out meat is very much the norm, and frankly, burnt meat would be significantly less bad.
That is British houses. Different topic!
But I do like leeks in cheese sauce.
Basic recipe: https://www.recipesmadeeasy.co.uk/leeks-in-cheese-sauce/#gal...
Fancy version: https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/cheese-recipes/cheesy-le...
I would cook them in the oven with everything else though, and only very slightly brown the top of the cheese. They then make a good contrast to the roast vegetables.
(On houses, there is a line in The Xenophobe's Guide to the Swiss about how swiss abhor drafts. According to my father, this observation, albeit made in a book nominally about the swiss, says much more about the british.)
Sunday roast, great hearty filling meal after a big day.
Pudding, chips, peas, gravy, a great filling chippy tea.
Ploughman lunch with pork pie, yum.
Agreed they are some good foods, I wouldn’t say we have fine foods, we have simple foods and tastes. I live overseas now and sometimes miss the simple foods when feeling hungry and craving a big feed. A northern English chippy tea is especially hard to find, going out to a restaurant for Italian, French, Greek, Indian etc etc doesn’t hit the same spot when craving chippy tea although I pretty much love all food and mainly eat non English cuisine
I’ve eaten the Full English. I’ve also eaten Idli-Vadai-Pongal-Chutney-Sambhar and I prefer the latter. There’s nothing objectively better here. We prefer what we grew up eating.
Btw, German sausages can't hold a candle to British ones, change my mind :D
Seriously though - the freshness of ingredients available in the United Kingdom makes a huge difference, if you ignore British-Chinese food and can track down real Chinese food in the UK - it's genuinely world class