Everything that my mother cooked for me seemed normal, so nothing seemed strange. Especially on a Sunday roast, when she did the cabbage, she used to drain the cabbage water off and I’d drink it, it was lovely. I still drink it
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When I was younger, I was brought up by my Grandma who is from the Punjab in India. We’d eat things like chapati, curry and samosas with her. My mum tends to cook more western food. My favourite thing to eat is
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We lived in a 1930s semi detached house to start with, and in 1963 moved to an ex-council end terrace. Most of the time we lived in the back room – the front room was kept for best. My dad provided most
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Even though my nan is in her seventies she still makes the roast dinner every single Sunday. My family, my cousins and uncles all go to her for Sunday lunch, sometimes 12 or 13 of us. She has a rota of meats
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Christmas was really packed in our house with presents, family and friends. The table was always filled with different kinds of foods. My favourite thing was the carrots – my Nan’s special recipe. She’d cook the carrots with the turkey or the
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Black Country food is tasty, it tends to make the most of what people have – for example faggots are made out of the bits of an animal that you wouldn’t normally have on their own. Our gravy is great – thick,
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You know it’s Christmas or New Years Eve when the pickled cucumbers are on the buffet, something my nan always did. We lost her recently and so we will carry on the tradition for her. It’s nothing fancy – thinly sliced cucumber
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A group of friends and I have something called Samosa Friday. We buy a selection of food from a local Indian sweet shop called Chandagar on Bearwood Road. Inside it feels exotic and a feast for the eyes with mountains of samosa,
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One of our family celebrations was the annual Sproson party at the Bradmore hotel with all of the family. Frank Sproson, my father’s uncle, was married to Red Emma and used to organise the party. Red Emma was heavily involved in the
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It’s a traditional Black Country dish which is a kind of stew – a cheap food. Certainly in my childhood it was what people ate on bonfire night and my nanny used to make it. It gets its name from groats, which
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