No ENGLISH cuisine
 

I ventured on to the FlyerTalk Cookbook section for the first time and was surprised to discover that among the ethnic sections there wasn't one for English food.
Nowhere I could post the delights of Lancashire Hot Pot,Toad in the Hole,Jam Rolypoly,the Barnsley Chop,Yorkshire Pudding,the Full English,Black Pudding,the Cornish pasty,the Melton Mowbray pie and not forgetting the glorious chip butty.
We didn't get to be a nation of Fat .......s lying down you know !

I, for one, would be delighted to talk about English Cuisine (no, it's NOT an oxymoron!)

Steak and Guinness pie....mmmmmmm....

Bangers and Mash....mmmm....

Bubble and Squeak, the Plowman's Lunch, Deep Fried Mars Bars, fish and chips w/ malt vinegar, trifle, spotted dick, and Steak and Kidney Pie.

Mmmmmmmmmm....

Mushy peas.
If you're English you'd know.

I thought this is as Scottish as Irn Bru...

Hmmm - There is a section for British food: (severely underpopulated):
http://www.flyertalk.com/cookbook/vi...tegory=British

There are also sections for Beef, Poultry, Seafood, Pork, Other Meats, Vegetables, Potato Dishes etc. etc.

So get posting. I'm looking forward to seeing your recipe for black pudding.
Do you start with a pig? (Or with a black pudding?)

sticky toffee pudding....mmm...

Chicken tikka masala mmm ;)

Nothing is better than this. We had some of the best sticky toffee pudding in a small town in Scotland. Wish I could recall the name of the restaurant since I would love to have their recipe.

British bacon....Bacon Baps....mmmmm.....

I'm craving fish & chips right now. Love it in a English Pub with a pint!

But I was talking about ENGLISH food.
It's like Canadians feel when people mistake them for Americans.

Oh. For a moment I thought you cared about food. But it seems your beef is with the web site taxonomy.

Please do here! And to open things up a bit: If I were to have an overnight layover in London, where should I go for a good, solid, authentic English dinner? I'd appreciate some brilliant advice ;)

Mmmmm....bacon butties...thick slices from a roast joint with Yorkshire pudding...a Full English in the morning (don't spare the beans, LOL)...kippers...trifle...treacle pudding! My inner John Bull trencherman emerges :D

Spotted Dick
 

My favorite English food name. Never tasted it though;)

My old local used to serve it on Sundays as a dessert after the roast. Was quite interesting when my two female friends requested their spotted dicks served with bananas on the side. :D

Porters in Covent Garden isn't bad, a little touristy. There website is http://www.porters.uk.com/

Rules is also good, http://www.rules.co.uk location also Covent Garden.

For classic English cooking you really can't go far wrong with the Savoy Grill at the Savoy Hotel.
They're been doing it for centuries and whilst young pretenders come and go the Savoy sails gracefully on.
Not cheap - but then the best things in life aren't.

At least they didn't ask for a pair of plums...

Or crushed nuts...

I didn't post this earlier because it's one of those things you're reluctant to pass on.
But breakfast at Simpsons-in-the-Strand is one of life's great culinary experiences.
Indulge in this and you will not feel like eating anything else until a light snack very late in the evening of the same day.
It is trencherman food of world-class standard - artery-clogging and life-shortening but the nearest thing to heaven on earth.

I'm definately a fish & chips fan (though I consume it less frequently due to the health content) and always creeps into my mind when someone mentions English cuisine. :)

Stay overnight at the Connaught. Treat yourself to a marvelous breakfast. Later have a great lamb . So good

Huntingdon Fidget Pie
 

I like it for the name.

Well... and the taste.

http://www.dairydiary.co.uk/recipes/recipe03.html

English cuisine is much maligned - and deservedly so! :):) That said you cant beat a good olf English cafe fry-up with baked beans and fantastic real Emglish bacon and sausages. Incredible...

There are really good astropubs like the The Garrison in Bermondsey http://www.thegarrison.co.uk/ with all local recipes made using local farm produce. .

At the higher end. The Fat Duck in Bray www.fatduck.co.uk/ was also really good and creative, although maybe a bit overhyped for what is was. I'm told that the pub they run next door is actually really good value for eating, not surprisngly I guess.

I do like their muffins.

Hmmm. I seem to recall being invited for dining and having a set meal that included those. Very impressive. ^

High Tea

Would LOVE to see the 'ladies' of Little Britain doing there thing at one!

Most of my favourite Little Britain sketches have food or drink in th background, somewhere. ;)

When I last went to Kenya, someone asked what the food was like. I replied, "The best of British cuisine." I have never found anything good in anything that was British, Dutch, German, Scandinavian food. OK, British breakfasts are great. The best thing about British and Dutch food is from their former colonies. I love Indonesian, Indian, Malay food. My sons knows all the great Asian places in London. He even got his grandmother to eat at curry places in London.

does anyone remember "Scouse"? sp? Rhymes with "house"? My grandma (from Yorkshire) used to make it for us when we were kids. it was kind of like a stew of some kind, details are foggy. she used to say it was The Beatles' favorite meal. i think that may have been her ploy to get us past all the vegetables in it.

I always thought "scouse" was the dialect spoken by Liverpudlians. Seems the name may be derived from the dish!

In Scandinavia for example you have lots of wonderful fish, lamb and pork dishes.. Hard to find, outside of traditional holidays, but they do exist and are wonderful. COuple examples...
- Pinekjøtt (smoked and grilled lamb rack), in Norway, usually christmas food in their west coast country
- In Denmark the smørebød (little open finger sandwiches in almost infinite variations) is incredible. There are bakeries and specialists shops all over Copenhagen serving Smørebrød
- Norwegian sour cream porridge, a hella lot tastier than it sounds!

Oh goodness. Rules is okay but St. John is vastly superior for a somewhat updated version of classic English cuisine. It is a world class restaurant specializing in English "head to toe" cooking.

When I have better time, I'll either post links to both trad and nouvelle Scandinavian, Dutch, German and British food here or open a new thread.

As this includes my heritage and some of the countries where I grew up and studied, it would be interesting to try to convert someone to the delights of these cuisines. ;)