Decade Defining Dishes!

[EcclesCake]

This article made me smile http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2474873/When-frankfurters-fondue-hostess-trolleys-fashion-Hilariously-naff-dinner-party-photos-reveal-way-used-dine.html

My Mother was oh so sophisticated making Spag Bol in the 70's......such a shame she bought a tin of Buitoni(?) bolognaiase sauce!

What recipes or gadgets remind you of yesteryear?

[hc4361]

I remember chilli con carne being served up at every party I went to in the early 80s

[EcclesCake]

I hope you had some bowls of grated cheese and chopped raw onion and capsicum to garnish your chille with HC?

[hc4361]

Natch, and some people thought it was extra posh to put chocolate in it

[shoota]

Vichyssoise is leek and potato soup DT.
Come anywhere near me and you'll drown in it...

[DTCwordfan]

As if I didn't know that already......duh.

[EcclesCake]

I hadn't realised I was extra posh HC......I just thought I was normal/hip/retro/confused........!

[sandyRoe]

Birdseye fish fingers, Smash instant mashed potato, and tinned peas. Yum yum.

[Tilly2]

I remember when Kiwi fruit and broccoli spears were things to serve at dinner parties because they were so 'new.'

I still make a mean Coq au Vin.

[ClaryS]

My mum thought she was very sophisticated serving us Vesta Chow Mein. She made spag bol using packet tomato soup and on a Friday we had cod in parsley sauce, boil in the bag of course. My mum worked hard at her job but bless her was not a very good cook. I was taken out at 16 years old for a special meal and had avocado with prawns, I thought I'd 'arrived' lol! Didn't taste of much though lol!

[EcclesCake]

I could pop two culinary cherries with that menu Sandy!

[humbersloop]

cheese and silverskin onions, bacon wrapped chipolatas, on cocktail sticks, stuck into a foil covered half grapefruit

celery stuffed with cottage cheese or - for the real wow factor - peanut butter

tinned salmon, mashed with a bit of vinegar and pepper, in brown bread sandwiches

[EcclesCake]

Hmmm, methinks cheese and silver skin onions is an uber sophisticated version of cheese and pineapple!

Celery filled with peanut butter.....and added wow of raisins is known as 'ants on a log'!

I might make chicken Kiev this weekend to keep the retro vibe going!

[humbersloop]

I think it was more about my mother being too tight to open a whole tin of pineapple "just for that" ;)

[EcclesCake]

Hmmm, I recognise that trait.....waste not, want not.......