Topic: Curries v. the simpler pleasures of life

[Micky Tikka]

When I was a boy mum used to make spaghetti bol with chips round the edge with plenty of salt and vinegar  with loads of grated cheese 
I don't know why but is still my comfort food today 
Along with good crusty bread and ham       and cheese    I do like a ploughmans
A simple boiled egg and soldiers 
A roast leg of lamb or pork loin
sticky toffee pudding
Toasted cheese sandwich dipped in hot Bovril

I hate diets

[DalPuri]

Boiled eggs and soldiers would be my last meal on earth. 

Not had a ploughmans for years. Used to love em as a kid up at the Hand in hand or The Woodman.

[Kashmiri Bob]

Fresh green pesto still excites me.  Stuffed vine leaves occasionally. Olives. Also, good smoked bacon and scrambled eggs (cooked by me), with HP sauce, and two rounds of white bread and butter.

Rob 

[mickdabass]

Ahh Pesto. Now you're talking! Fresh Pesto simply stirred into fresh pasta. mmmmmm.
Also - fried smoked streaky bacon between two slices of bread that have been used to mop up the excess fat and fried on one side with a good squirt of HP.

Heaven

[Les]

Mushrooms, bacon, egg, black pudding and fried tomatoes.. Sunday breakfast...Lush.
or Liver and bacon with onions of course. Faggots, mashed potato and pea's.
where I was born in Northumberland we used to have Oatmeal pudding (fried) with our breakfast, and that's something I miss, can't seem to get it anymore, only white pudding which is not the same.
Les

[GulfExpat]

Steak cooked with a simple pan sauce has an addictive quality similar to BIR curry.

It took me about five attempts, but when I'd cracked it I was scraping the fond from the pan with a spoon - it was that good.

Steak, salt, butter, red wine (zinfandel or pino grigiot).

Cooked in a pan without a non-stick coating.

[Geezah]

Surely steak, when cooked and rested correctly comes with its own sauce, Blood.

[Garp]

Marmite 

[Gav Iscon]

Marmite 

Best on buttered brown toast for me but it is nice.

I love mince tatties and peas (mixed together  :) and I'm also a sucker for chilli with brown rice and a bowl of tortillas. Food Heaven, both of them

[Onions]

Agreed!