All About Food!

Hello to all of you hungry MLU-ites,

THIS thread I start in honour of Derek, our own Master Sapper740 who suggested I start a thread on New Years tradition meals/foods ... well, I'm sorry I'm too late to start that now Master Derek, but it's not too late to start a thread about food, and I hope you'll enjoy this thread in it's stead?

In this thread, I hope to see many favorite recipes/foods that we like ... share your recipes and stories folks!!!

... AND/ALSO a lot of LIBERATED FOODS recipes, especially from WW2 ... how many ways did the hungry soldiers cook-up liberated chicken? THESE stories in honour and respect for the focus of MLU and our Master Sunray and his preservation of the history ideals for this site! (How was the critter liberated? Who caught it and how? Who prepared it for edibility? What was used to make the meal ... foods, flavours, what were they cooked in and on? etc)

I'll be back and add some fave recipes/foods of mine, but for now, will leave you with a bit of food trivia:

PEASANT FOOD

Peasants ate more vegetables, mostly made in soups or stews. ( Uncooked fruit and vegetables were considered to be unhealthy.) Cabbages, leeks and garlic were popular, also a thick porridge made from dried peas or beans. A kilo of bread a day was the least for people who worked hard on the land all day. There were not potatoes, and rice was a luxury. A noble feast might end with a 'subtelty' made out of pastry, sugar, and marzipan. Meals were served on trenchers, thick slices of coarse brown bread which was used as plates.
They soaked up grease and sauces from the food. If you were really hungry, you might break small pieces off your trencher and eat it; At the end of the meal, trenchers were gathered and given to the hungry beggars who came up outside the castle gate. There were always dogs, sniffing around the hall in search of crumbs around the diners; however, it was not considered good table manners
to feed them from the table.

PS: For Saturday's supper, I plan on making old-fashioned green pea soup (dried green peas soak overnight as i type) with ham-hocks and dumplings ... if it turns out I'll share the recipe in here. If not, I won't mention it again

I use frying pans for cooking in too you know. Frying pans are not only disciplinary tools to me, they're also culinary tools ... potato pancakes (made with raw grated potato and other stuff) a fave of mine May even give you-all the recipe if you-all are nice to me!

A line from a fave old country song of mine ... "Hey hey good lookin'. What ya got cookin' ... "

Ma Cheffette Yappy.