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Always make a bit too much mash in the evening so you can fry up what's left with an egg and slap it on a piece of toast. Nom.


 
Posted : 13/11/2014 10:36 am
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Mmmmm, crispy bits 🙂


 
Posted : 13/11/2014 10:36 am
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Homefries and an omelette


 
Posted : 13/11/2014 10:40 am
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American hashbrowns get my vote.

That is grated potato fried. - none of this battered tattie we get in the uk.


 
Posted : 13/11/2014 10:47 am
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battered tattie

😯 that's got to be a euphemism or culinary speciality reserved for NE Scotland


 
Posted : 13/11/2014 10:50 am
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[i]battered tattie [/i]

the result of a groin/stem interface?


 
Posted : 13/11/2014 10:51 am
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That is grated potato fried

Isn't that Rosti ?


 
Posted : 13/11/2014 10:53 am
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yeah it's a Rosti. which is delicious but i can never be arsed to make - takes too blimmin' long to fry!


 
Posted : 13/11/2014 10:55 am
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I had what I can only assume was a Scottish speciality at a festival last summer (in Scotland). A very large whole potato cut with some fancy device so it sort of spirals out, stuck on a stick, dipped in batter, deep fried then coated in spicy seasoning, with a load of mayonnaise and chilli sauce. Mmmmm...


 
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Mmmm, Rosti. Takes ages, best cooked in lots of butter.


 
Posted : 13/11/2014 10:56 am
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My friend gets the piss taken out of her for thinking Rosti was a Nepali speciality as she first encountered it there. 🙂


 
Posted : 13/11/2014 10:57 am
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might be rosti dunno .... in californian country diners its called hash browns. on american rigs they call it grits.

Man - i forgot about breakfast biscuits - they were nice - not quite tattie scones but mmm none the less.

far better than what we get in the uk - which i would call a potato fritter(or a battered tattie ;))


 
Posted : 13/11/2014 10:58 am
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I love fried leftover potatoes. My snack of choice when visiting the Punjab is 'tikki', a roadside snack. Imagine mash potato/gram flour patti with a spicy chickpea filling, fried golden brown and served with fresh coriander and a hot sweet relish. Then a cup of steaming chai, all from a shack overlooking a Himalayan valley after a long days walk.


 
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I had what I can only assume was a Scottish speciality at a festival last summer (in Scotland). A very large whole potato cut with some fancy device so it sort of spirals out, stuck on a stick, dipped in batter, deep fried then coated in spicy seasoning, with a load of mayonnaise and chilli sauce. Mmmmm...

That sounds awsumz, don't suppose you remember what it was called?


 
Posted : 13/11/2014 10:59 am
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a potato fritter

Same as a potato scallop (in NW England)


 
Posted : 13/11/2014 10:59 am
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If you like your mash creamy and buttery it fries horribly, best leave it as plain as possible and in the fridge for a couple of days.


 
Posted : 13/11/2014 11:05 am
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Monday night's tea when I was small used to be cold cuts of meat (from the Sunday lunch) served with the roast potatoes which had been all mashed up and cooked in an old frying pan and finished off under the grill. You can tell my parents were born in the early 30s...


 
Posted : 13/11/2014 11:17 am
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Fried mashed potato
shallow fried? thought they were potato cakes.


 
Posted : 13/11/2014 11:20 am
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Just add onion and cheese.

Damn, finished my sandwiches and now hungry again.


 
Posted : 13/11/2014 11:23 am
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Shallow fried but all knocked about so the crispy bits are all the way through.
Hungry again now 🙁


 
Posted : 13/11/2014 11:25 am
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yeah american hash browns are nice - is that how you do them then? Just fry raw grated potato?

I love fried mash - but as above I also like buttery/ milky mash but that limits the crispy bits when you fry it up

I like cooking extra boiled/ new type potato. then cut them up into small chunks and then fry up for breakfast with eggs etc. Or even better use them in a corned beef hash - going to have that for tea tonight and breakfast tomorrow!


 
Posted : 13/11/2014 11:31 am
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Chuck everything else in there; peas, sprouts, onion whatever its called bubble and squeak round our house.

I like it nobody else will touch it!


 
Posted : 13/11/2014 11:32 am
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its called bubble and squeak round our house.

Er, it's call bubble and squeak round everyone's house.... 🙂


 
Posted : 13/11/2014 11:35 am
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Battered tatties
Down here it's all about smashing yer pastie. Sad but true.


 
Posted : 13/11/2014 11:39 am
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might be rosti dunno .... in californian country diners its called hash browns. on american rigs they call it grits.

Grits is corn porridge. You're doing it wrong.


 
Posted : 13/11/2014 11:39 am
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i always thought that too kona bunny but who am i to argue with the chef + he was significantly larger and more african than me.


 
Posted : 13/11/2014 11:45 am
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Grits with biscuits and white gravy...


 
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My snack of choice when visiting the Punjab is 'tikki', a roadside snack. Imagine mash potato/gram flour patti with a spicy chickpea filling, fried golden brown and served with fresh coriander and a hot sweet relish.

That sounds amazing. And a plan for the weekend. Starving now.


 
Posted : 13/11/2014 11:45 am
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My grandparents used to cook fried mash in dripping as a supper snack for me when I was about 11. Can taste it still.


 
Posted : 13/11/2014 11:49 am
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Loads of Spuds, Kale, leeks, and Onions form the allotments this year. I make sure I cook more than needed for a Bubble and Squeak fry-up, couple of eggs and some bacon...Food of the Gods!


 
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I had what I can only assume was a Scottish speciality at a festival last summer (in Scotland). A very large whole potato cut with some fancy device so it sort of spirals out, stuck on a stick, dipped in batter, deep fried then coated in spicy seasoning, with a load of mayonnaise and chilli sauce. Mmmmm...
That has been the standout stall at an annual food festival here (down South) for the last few years except there's no batter (that is probably the Scottish "twist"), it's just deep fried. Tastes awesome!


 
Posted : 13/11/2014 12:16 pm
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Add some flour and you have a tattie scone, tastes much better than the crap excuses sold in shops, much thicker too.

I think what TR is describing is grits/ hash brown, what we call hash browns here is actually rosti. Dunno, stupid laguage difference.

I have a device for making curly fries that screws down into the potato, think I'm going to make one of these curly monsters at the weekend!


 
Posted : 13/11/2014 12:52 pm
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Has anyone else made mash and veg specifically for bubble and squeak? It's a faff, but always worth it!


 
Posted : 13/11/2014 12:56 pm
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I have a device for making curly fries that screws down into the potato, think I'm going to make one of these curly monsters at the weekend!
I have one of those but have only used it to make courgette fries (which are amazing) and veggie noodles so far... can't believe I didn't make the mental link between the spirally blade attachment (which has remained unused) and the potato-stick thingies! I will also be making these at the weekend now!!

Has anyone else made mash and veg specifically for bubble and squeak? It's a faff, but always worth it!
No but whenever I make a roast dinner I always do LOADS extra potatoes and veg to make bubble & squeak with the next day. Roast tatties are an even better base than mash cos they start out with crispy bits already!


 
Posted : 13/11/2014 1:13 pm
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Roast tatties are an even better base than mash cos they start out with crispy bits already!
roast potatoes aren't a left over item at our house. If there's still roasties left I'm still eating.


 
Posted : 13/11/2014 2:15 pm
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Grits is corn porridge. You're doing it wrong.

Far as I could tell when I made the mistake of ordering it once out of curiosity at a Waffle House, "grits" appeared to be frogspawn cooked in a pan of snot.


 
Posted : 13/11/2014 2:43 pm
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Ah yeah, those are grits. Never mind...


 
Posted : 13/11/2014 2:53 pm
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Mash through a ricer and then fry it - very similar to a rosti.

Mind you I don't particularly like rostis but YMMV...


 
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I've never had Grits as such - but apparantly its basically polenta

Grits = US working class food = polenta = uper middle class food


 
Posted : 13/11/2014 2:59 pm
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Deep fried mash, possibly triple done, is food of the gods...


 
Posted : 13/11/2014 3:57 pm