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[Emily]

I have to make a meal with my friend with traditional British food. Her brother and sister in law did a Japanese inspired night and they set the bar pretty high.

Anyway, we need some traditional British food that would be pretty simple to make, good, and with ingredients that can be found just about everywhere (in this case, Switzerland).

We need a starter, a main course, and a dessert. Help us brainstorm please!

[Drakonid]

____, shepherd's pie and trifle.

[Waser Lave]

@Waser Lave what's a traditional British dish that's easy to make and good? We're having an England night and I have to make something with a friend but we don't know what to make its yet. I think we need like two-three dishes.

 

Erm... How easy are we talking? Some reasonable easy ones would be Chicken Tikka Massala, Roast Beef & Yorkshire Puddings, Shepherd's Pie, Fish & Chips, Toad In The Hole, Sausage Rolls, Lancashire Hotpot, lots of kinds of meat pies, Cornish Pasties, Bangers & Mash, Roast Dinner etc.

 

Easiest on there is probably Toad In The Hole, just sausages and Yorkshire Pudding batter. Bangers and Mash is also very easy, mashed potato and sausages but it's a bit dull.

[Emily]

We've already said no to shepherds pie out of spite. Her family keeps making fun of us by talking about shepherds pie.

[Karla]

Tea and crumpets maybe? *slapped*

[KaibaSama]

Fish and chips? The only british foods I know besides that is pudding, the pie that was already mentioned and that british food tends to taste bad. *hides in fear*

[Ali]

Eton Mess for dessert, that's dead simples.

[Shane]

Bangers and mash, scotch eggs, fish and chips mmmm!

[Emily]

Apparently her family has tried Yorkshire pudding and they didn't like it.... and according to my friend we won't find sausages here. 

Maybe a nice pie of sorts?

[Waser Lave]

Apparently her family has tried Yorkshire pudding and they didn't like it.... and according to my friend we won't find sausages here. 

Maybe a nice pie of sorts?

 

With how Germanic Switzerland is there have to be sausages around there somewhere...

 

Steak and Ale pie? Beer, meat and pie, can't go wrong there.

[Frizzle]

British people don't do good food. We just simple steal other nations.

[Emily]

With how Germanic Switzerland is there have to be sausages around there somewhere...
 
Steak and Ale pie? Beer, meat and pie, can't go wrong there.

I'm on the French side though.

British people don't do good food. We just simple steal other nations.

Yeah, there's too much to choose from.

[Waser Lave]

I'm on the French side though.

 

The French know their way around a sausage too though.

[Emily]

The French know their way around a sausage too though.

Yeah I think I just had veal sausage for lunch, but I don't know about othe sausages.

[Ali]

Yeah I think I just had veal sausage for lunch, but I don't know about othe sausages.

You should be able to find cervelat...

[Emily]

You should be able to find cervelat...

Yeah, we'll see. Still not sure what we should do and her family keeps asking. We keep telling them that it's confidential.

[Frizzle]

Give them beer, shout at them in English, invade their country. The true British way.

[Padme]

Bertie Botts every flavour beans ayyyyyyy

[Emily]

We're going for the steak and ale pie. We'll see how this goes.

[Waser Lave]

We're going for the steak and ale pie. We'll see how this goes.

 

Amateur pie-making is an endeavour fraught with great danger. I wish you luck.

[Emily]

Amateur pie-making is an endeavour fraught with great danger. I wish you luck.

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The images are probably really big but I'm on my phone.

And I was trying to make them an actual image but whatever.

[DregsandDregs]

Spoiler

http://imgur.com/fRjSk8b

http://imgur.com/kSlrgIT

The images are probably really big but I'm on my phone.

And I was trying to make them an actual image but whatever.

 

Hey, that's not too bad.  Your crust looks amazing.

 

Me, I'm stuck trying to make a vegan crust without using up all the butter in the house.  It's really hard.  What did you glaze the top with?

 

Next time, maybe try a beef wellington.

 

Huh, actually, now that I think about it, Brit food and Japanese food are distant cousins.  The whole idea of not covering up the flavour, but rather accentuating it.  It's just that the local flavours differ quite a bit.