BEST BRITISH RECIPES

PS.: FOUND THIS ARTICLE ON  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/recipes/7685489/Best-British-Recipes.html After decades at the bottom of the culinary league table, British food is cool again. While even five years ago a "British restaurant" would have been an oxymoron like ''low fat butter'' or ''barbecue summer'', now chefs are falling over themselves to proclaim themselves anglophiles. Trendy restaurants have ditched the French and Italian classics to serve up dishes that sound as if they belong in granny's kitchen: potted shrimp, pork scratchings and Scotch egg. Home cooks may feel justifiably irritated by all the fuss. While professional chefs would love us to believe that British food is their great new discovery, for most of us it never went away. Years of working on a Readers' Recipe column, reading your letters and testing your recipes, convinced me that we're a nation of fine cooks, often even growing our own ingredients, who've continued cooking our national dishes right through the wilderness years. Our creations may not have been fashionable but they were, and are, utterly delicious to eat. In fact, the real strength of British cookery lies not in fancy-pants restaurant food, but in the steamed puddings, toad in the hole and spag bol of the nursery supper. These dishes are the great survivors and a part of our heritage of which we're rightly proud. So that's why Telegraph Weekend, in conjunction with Morrisons, is launching an exciting competition to find the best British recipes. We're asking you to send in your own recipes, the ones you love to cook and eat. We'll print the best ones and there will be fantastic prizes including £5000 to spend at Morrisons for the competition's overall winner.