General Chat

Following the favourite meal thread,have you ever eaten something that you are forever trying to find again?

In 1974, on Brighton pier, I had a baked potato with egg mayonnaise and I have been wanting to eat that potato again ever since. Likewise, when sandwich toasters irst were the thing, I bought a toasted sandwich in a cafe near Gosport ferry that had cheese and plum chutney in it I think.

Well, ever since then in 1979, I have sought another one. I did however manage to replicate the mushroom omelette and chips I bought in that takeaway in Farehm about the same time.

'Black' bread. The bread our neighbours in Malta ate. I was only 3 or 4, but I loved it.
It was cream coloured bread, with an extremely dark crust, and was delicious.

It was nearly replicated on holiday in Italy, when one of our party bought some 'local' flour from the shop, made the bread, and baked it in the pizza oven.

No matter how hard I try, I have never been able to make a cheese jaffle/toastie like one particular lady used to make in Cole’s New World, Frankston - a bit like Woolies with a cafe, but other Cole’s branches were large and used to sell groceries too.

I was much younger then and this lady was older and had a magic touch. :-D

Try as I might, I can not replicate it at all and it’s such a simple thing.

I suppose it could be that with health etc regs ingredients have changed over the years, less salt, sugar and other things, different fat for cooking, or even no fat. That together with time changing memories. Never mind the search may be enjoyable.
Sharron was it the egg mayonnaise that was special or the potato?

Maggie, if you google Maltese bread there are lots of options, including recipes. The pictures are all of fairly light-coloured loaves though.

If you google Maltese black bread there are different ones, some of which look great.

I had baked avocado with a light cheese sauce in a Notting Hill restaurant decades ago. It was delicious. Suffice to say, haven't seen or heard mention of it since :-(

My spud. As far as I remember it was just everything coming together, like that Gister's egg sandwich I bought that time I was hungry. The spud was baked with a nice baked skin and the egg was just the right texture with the balance of egg to salad cream just perfect, it was salad cream as I recall and I think it might have been proper Heinz and now I want one!!!!!!

Sharron, perhaps they coated the potato’s skin with butter before baking it?

Or oil. It was properly baked, as I recall.They have special ovens for that don't they?

My Gran made amazing shortcrust pastry. All my cousins, aunties etc. agree that her mince pies were the best. I haven't tasted any better <3

I have just remembered Lyon's Individual Fruit Pies ad I would kill for one!

Spring onion flavour crisps from Boots(?) were really nice.
I guess I didn't demand them enough :-(

Don't think I ever had them.

Can remember tomato ketchup crisps which I liked.

And pickled onion Sharron..they were delicious

can you still get chip shop curry sauce flavour crisps? They were the biz :-D

World of gourmets on here!

All I seem to want now is the Lyons apple pie or something equally sweet and fruity.
But I have been a diet ever since one of my foot specialist suggested I may have diabetes. I don’t and I don’t need my foot off ( ;-) ;-) ;-)). Which won’t mean anything to some :-D

Apricot pie! OMG, I so need one NOW!!!!!

If you want to raise the bar to OMG....... Wasabi peas! Taste one and it nearly blows your head off. When that's gone down you need to have another because you can't believe that happened and so it goes on until the bag is empty.

I need Wasabi peas NOW!!!! :-D :-D

SheilaWestWilts. My Mum's pastry was the talk of the family, her sausage rolls and mincepies were always requested for family get togethers.

I think Maltese black bread has vinegar in. The thing I miss most is Maltese cheesecakes - little concoctions of filo pastry containing ricotta cheese mixed with egg. They are sold hot from bakeries and roadside stalls, they also come with mushy peas inside it but the ricotta ones are my favourite. I am salivating just writing about them.

Lizxx