Never tasted Worcestershire sauce, but smelt it as a friend was adding it to her Bloody Mary. Did not appeal at all. I suspect it’s one of those things I don’t like, but have never tried!
I'd forgotten I've got a bottle of Hendo's @pansyface. Bought it after seeing it on a TV programme and then seeing it in a shop for the first time - seems to be very regional. Assumed it is very much like Worc sauce.
I use a lot of Worc sauce in cooking - particularly soups, casseroles and bol. Also use a lot of anchovy essence and mushroom ketchup in those types of dishes - God bless the Victorians for bottling them and thank goodness they're still making them. All used as ingredients rather than condiments.
My FIL was the fussiest eater I ever knew. Would only eat 2 veg - peas and potatoes. Can you imagine trying to make a beef casserole or cottage pie without onions and carrots? I also put celery and mushrooms in mine. He would spend 5 minutes picking out every last bit of veg from the gravy.
He did, however, love (and ask for seconds) my beef stew which appeared to be just beef and gravy. The gravy was nice and thick just as he liked it - but that was because it was made with zuzzed up onions, celery, garlic, anchovies and thyme. He still protested about the carrot batons...
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
It was @B3. Very, very difficult to cater for and still present tasty fodder for everyone else. I basically had about 6 meals to rotate when the outlaws came to stay. Incredibly dull and boring.
He was a lovely man though so I readily forgave him the headaches he presented🙂
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
Pa disliked tomatoes, but his favourite soup was Heinz tinned tomato.
@WonkyWomble 's papa, when I first got him, was really fussy ... every time the football team he played for took us WAGS out for a meal to a Chinese restaurant he always had the English dish which was Chicken and chips. He didn't like onions in anything and used to remove them and arrange them around the edge of the plate ... so I just chopped them really small so he couldn't remove them ... he couldn't cook to save his life so he had to eat them ... then I just chopped them larger and larger until he ate them without any fuss and now he'll deny that he ever refused to eat them. He also said he loathed Toad in the Hole ... then one day he saw me making it for Wonky and her big brother ... he said, 'That looks like sausages in Yorkshire pudding' ..... 🙄 I explained that it was exactly that ...'Oh, well I'll probably like it then' ... and of course it became a firm favourite. He'd just never tried it ... thinking it really was something weird like 'toad'. 🤪 Now of course, having remarried and got a wife who's not known for her cooking, he's learned to cook and apparently is really quite adventurous ... comparatively speaking .
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
My husband won't eat onion in a casserole so I put a couple in whole , remove them and squeeze out the juice before serving. I must admit I don't like coming across a bit of boiled onion in Irish stew either but don't mind them in other stews.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I use a lot of Worc sauce in cooking - particularly soups, casseroles and bol. Also use a lot of anchovy essence and mushroom ketchup in those types of dishes - God bless the Victorians for bottling them and thank goodness they're still making them. All used as ingredients rather than condiments.
My FIL was the fussiest eater I ever knew. Would only eat 2 veg - peas and potatoes. Can you imagine trying to make a beef casserole or cottage pie without onions and carrots? I also put celery and mushrooms in mine. He would spend 5 minutes picking out every last bit of veg from the gravy.
He did, however, love (and ask for seconds) my beef stew which appeared to be just beef and gravy. The gravy was nice and thick just as he liked it - but that was because it was made with zuzzed up onions, celery, garlic, anchovies and thyme. He still protested about the carrot batons...
He was a lovely man though so I readily forgave him the headaches he presented🙂
@WonkyWomble 's papa, when I first got him, was really fussy ... every time the football team he played for took us WAGS out for a meal to a Chinese restaurant he always had the English dish which was Chicken and chips. He didn't like onions in anything and used to remove them and arrange them around the edge of the plate ... so I just chopped them really small so he couldn't remove them ... he couldn't cook to save his life so he had to eat them ... then I just chopped them larger and larger until he ate them without any fuss and now he'll deny that he ever refused to eat them. He also said he loathed Toad in the Hole ... then one day he saw me making it for Wonky and her big brother ... he said, 'That looks like sausages in Yorkshire pudding' ..... 🙄 I explained that it was exactly that ...'Oh, well I'll probably like it then' ... and of course it became a firm favourite. He'd just never tried it ... thinking it really was something weird like 'toad'. 🤪 Now of course, having remarried and got a wife who's not known for her cooking, he's learned to cook and apparently is really quite adventurous ... comparatively speaking .
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.