Monday
- Full veggie breakfast traybakepaprika potatoes · roast mushrooms · blistered vine tomatoes
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A region of England
North West England: its food, and a week to cook at home.
Mill town stews, Liverpool's Scouse, Cumbria's sausages and the shrimps of Morecambe Bay.
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What people eat here
Dishes from North West England
No. 1
Lancashire hotpot
Lamb and onion under a lid of sliced potatoes, baked slowly until the top is crisp.
No. 2
Scouse
A stew of beef or lamb with potatoes and vegetables. It came to Liverpool with sailors, and gave the city's people their nickname.
No. 3
Eccles cakes
Flaky pastry rounds filled with currants, from the town of Eccles near Manchester.
No. 4
Cumberland sausage
A long, coiled, peppery pork sausage. Traditional Cumberland Sausage is a protected food name.
What grows here, and when
Lamb in late spring and summer, root vegetables through the winter, and damsons in Cumbria's Lyth Valley in early autumn.
Morecambe Bay potted shrimps are tiny brown shrimps set in spiced butter. Bury is known for black pudding, and Cumbria's fells raise sheep.
Seven days, seven menus
A sample week from our recipes
A week to cook at home that suits North West England and its seasons, using only recipes on this site. Each day reads in the order you eat.
Tuesday
- Leek and potato soupsilky leek and potato · snipped chives · green olive oil
- Ploughman's plate with quick pickled onionsmature cheddar · crusty bread · pink pickled onions
Wednesday
- Roast chicken thighs with leeks and potatoesgolden chicken thighs · sweet roast leeks · crisp potatoes
- Creamy mashed potatoessilky mash · warm butter · chives
Thursday
- Pakistani chicken karahitomato-seared chicken · green chilli · ginger threads
- Jeera rice with toasted cumintoasted cumin · long grain basmati · fresh coriander
Friday
- Crisp hake with minty crushed peascrisp-skin hake · minty crushed peas · lemon new potatoes
Saturday
- 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
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
- Golden syrup oat flapjacksgolden oats · golden syrup · chewy bars
We have no recipe yet for hotpot, Scouse or Eccles cakes.
Meal plans that suit North West England
Cities in North West England
Facts checked on 27 October 2026.