My favourites as a child were my nans lamb stews with gravy so thick you could stand a spoon in it, however hard I try, I just can't get my stew gravy like that. Mom's home cooked chips in dripping,she used to leave the dripping in the chip pan for ages and they were amazing, my nans Sunday roasts, with home made Yorkshire Pudding with beef and mint sauce with lamb, the mint straight out of her garden. Sunday teas with bread and butter, onions in a small dish covered with vinegar, and a cake or trifle. Tea in the week would always be a cooked meal apart from Saturday's and a pudding, spotted dick, jam roly poly, Apple pie with custard.
Saturday's mom would bring home crusty cobs and cakes and dad and I would have very sharp cheese from West Brom market and Spanish Onion on them, then a doughnut or a lardy cake.
Dad would always have pigs trotters on a Thursday night for tea, I hated the smell of them and used to have my tea quickly so as I didn't have to sell them for long.
Mom also used to make really nice peppermint creams and fudge, and I used to !I've helping her in the kitchen, she taught me a lot about cooking on a budget.
This time of year we eat lots of stews made in my slow cooker which is the one piece of kitchen equipment I couldn't do without, I buy my mince, stewing steak, oxtail for my husband, and neck of lamb from our excellent independent local butcher, freeze them then just defrost, do my veggies and gravy and leave it on low all day, ready for when my husband finishes work.
I make spaghetti Bolognese in my slow cooker as well, and my husband doesn't like it made any other way now