Liverpool: its food, and a week to cook at home.

A great port city, whose sailors brought home a stew that became its name.

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What people eat here

Dishes from Liverpool

No. 1

Scouse

A stew of beef or lamb with potatoes, carrots and onions. It comes from lobscouse, a sailors' stew, and gave Liverpool's people the name Scousers. Blind scouse has no meat.

No. 2

Chinatown

Liverpool's Chinese community, around Nelson Street and its great arch, is one of the oldest in Europe. It grew from sailors on the shipping lines in the 1800s.

No. 3

Wet nelly

A dense, sticky bread pudding, a cheap sweet treat made from leftover bread.

No. 4

Fish from the Irish Sea

Shrimps from Morecambe Bay to the north and fish landed along the coast.

What grows here, and when

Root vegetables for Scouse all through the colder months; salad and new potatoes in summer.

The Wirral and West Lancashire farmland around the city grows potatoes, carrots and salad.

Seven days, seven menus

A sample week from our recipes

A week to cook at home that suits Liverpool and its seasons, using only recipes on this site. Each day reads in the order you eat.

Plan a week like this

Monday
- Porridge with warm berries and toasted seedscreamy oats · warm berries · toasted seeds
Tuesday
- Hot and sour soup with tofupeppery broth · tofu and bamboo · rice vinegar
- Mild mapo tofu with mushroomssoft tofu · red chilli bean sauce · tingling sichuan pepper
- Steamed jasmine ricefragrant jasmine rice · steamed under the lid · fluffed with a fork
Wednesday
- Leek and potato soupsilky leek and potato · snipped chives · green olive oil
- Roast chicken thighs with leeks and potatoesgolden chicken thighs · sweet roast leeks · crisp potatoes
Thursday
- Ginger rice congee with greens and crispy shallotssilky ginger congee · tender pak choi · crisp shallot
Friday
- Crisp hake with minty crushed peascrisp-skin hake · minty crushed peas · lemon new potatoes
- Creamy mashed potatoessilky mash · warm butter · chives
Saturday
- Korean beef bulgogi bowlspear and garlic marinade · seared beef · crunchy quick pickle
- Smashed cucumber saladsmashed cucumber · garlic and rice vinegar · chilli flakes
Sunday
- Steak with peppercorn sauce and watercressseared sirloin · cracked peppercorn cream · peppery watercress
- Crisp roast potatoes with rosemary and garliccrackled roast potatoes · rosemary · soft roasted garlic
- Apple and blackberry crumblebramley apple and blackberry · golden oat crumble · warm custard