[Closed] So.... mash?

jimdubleyou - Member
I let or to beat mine with the back of a wooden spoon, usually with some butter. It normally goes quite firm, which I like as you can make a pool for your gravy

Yes but what do you make your mashed tatties with 😆

Drac - I'm sure it's mostly served under some completely invented culinary name; [i]Pommes de man fat [/i]probably.

Also you can't make mashed tatties with a potato ricer

Ah - you mean overcooked mash scotroutes. Once its mashed nice and smooth if you add milk and keep it on the heat it starts to form a white sauce type thing like flour and goes all horrid and gloopy. Thats just bad cooking

[quote=darrell ]bit of saffron

is turmeric ok?

I find 'beating' it with one of those bent wire mashers gives the best consistency rather than the mashers with the tiny little holes.

Mash with lumps of stilton and saute leeks - OHHHMM NOM NOM NOM NOM

+ cumberland sausages (no Walls shite though)

+ onion gravy (with mustard as noted by others)

Just checked my 1957 good housekeeping cookbook which is the bible of cooking ( can't find Mrs Beaton). It warns against keeping mash hot as it goes gloopy but insists it must be smooth

Drac - I'm sure it's mostly served under some completely invented culinary name; Pommes de man fat probably.

Has it got Cumin?*

*Cheers Dave.

Where do we stand on crushed potatoes? some I've had have been incredible (added truffle oil and I think mint), others crap as the only treatment they've had is to be crushed with a fork...

+ cumberland sausages (no Walls shite though)

Did you know you can buy them....

Did you know you can buy them....

*beats Drac to death with the horribly rubbery sausage shaped pork product*

the horribly rubbery sausage shaped pork product

Long dong silver?

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Simon_Semtex - Member

Bejesus, begora..... if you like mash then your head will explode when you have......

"CHAMP.........!"

It's the food of the gods. (Well, the Irish one's at least!)

Mashed spuds...... load of butter and (scallions softened in hot milk) chopped into it.

Usually served with corned beef.

Bloody lovely! (Might have some tonight actually!)

Scallions 😡

Cumin is ace with almost all potatoes but never tried it with mash. Thinking cumin with spring onions and chilli - precooked and added to hot mash.

I've enjoyed this thread far too much.

Suffice to say Family Jay are having Mash for Tea!

Remember the pot mash ala pot noodle (pot rot)? They did a curry flavour one, great cheap stodge

Cumin is ace with almost all potatoes but never tried it with mash.

My joke was wasted 😥

I'm carb free now so mash is off my menu (unless it's mashed broccoli)

However whilst I made myself kale and garlic mussels tonight my 24 year old made the most amazing pie and mash for the 3 boys.

Desiree potatoes cooked until soft but not falling apart, unfeasible amount of butter melted and used to soften slightly a load of spring onions.
When he drained the spuds he did what we've done for years in this house - chuck the butter on the spuds with a splash of cream and pepper, then blitz it all very quickly and for not too long with the electric hand whisk

Whisk not blender - this can be over done so you have to be careful. But I found it by far the best way to make a lot of mash quickly and keep it hot, mashing it by hand seems to take too long when you are making a mountain of the stuff.

Drac - Moderator
My joke was wasted

Matthew 13:5

Nah, it was Lee at about a quarter to seven.

Anyway, yes, champ. A couple of folk have skirted around it but aren't quite there.

Boil new potatoes until they pass the knife test.

Sautée sliced spring onions ("scallions," what is wrong with you people) in far too much butter.

Drain the new potatoes, pitch them in with the spring onions, kick their heads in with a wooden spoon, spin and serve.

I'm carb free now so mash is off my menu (unless it's mashed broccoli)

However whilst I made myself kale and garlic mussels tonight

I ddin't read any further, delete your account.

Matthew 13:5

And some fell upon mash

And some fell upon warm apple pie

Matthew 13:5

Not really sure I want to know where Drac's been casting his seed. 😯

Why do I hate the saying "lashings of" when talking about food?

"Cougar - Moderator
I'm carb free now so mash is off my menu (unless it's mashed broccoli)
However whilst I made myself kale and garlic mussels tonight

I ddin't read any further, delete your account"

I know I need putting down quite literally atm - but I've lost 9.5kg since Jan, so as much as I would have loved the pie and mash, I'm on a mission to be as fit as I can be atm :p

To be fit requires adequate fuel, kale is like leaded petrol, pie & mash is like shell ultra...

For the love of God Cougar you absolute Rupert!...... what you have described is NOT Champ....

It might be "Hoxton Champ" or "Top-Knot Wearing Hipster Champ" but it definitely isnt living in 1970's Belfast Champ."

and "Sauteeeee!!!!" WTF..... The SCALLIONS (yes SCALLIONS!) should be boiled in milk.....

Jaysus!!!!

Boiled in milk? Grim.

To be fit requires adequate fuel, kale is like leaded petrol, pie & mash is like shell ultra...

Both the same thing but you have to pay for the marketing on the pie and mash?

Boiled onions?

I don't really need to say any more here, do I.

Not just any onions these are angry onions.

Angry Onions what?

Rapscallions, I think.

Champ - Finley chopped spring onions gently cooked in 50/50 milk and butter with loads of salt an pepper. Boil spuds, mash, chuck in champ sauce and mix up with a big spoon. Serve with slow roast pok belly with amazing salty crackling. Genuinely the best food I know.

Champ the wonder sauce.

Tinybits.... now we're getting somewhere! (However, I still dont like your use of English spring onions!)

Champ the wonder sauce.

I think you're getting confused with French mushrooms.

Craic Drac...... That took me back to my childhood!

I think you're getting confused with French mushrooms.

😆

Edit: shows complete inability to post pictures grrrrr.

They were pictures of an old irish recipe book plus the recipe for champ, which clearly states you boil the finely chopped onions in milk, then add both milk and onions to the mash. It also said to make a 2" well and place butter into this. Eat with a spoon!

Craic Drac.

Wasn't that an enemy of He-Man or the Ninja Turtles or something?

Rumblethumps (or various spellings thereof)
Clapshot
Pan Haggerty
Bubble n Squeek
Colcannon
Hash

All awesome

Mmmmmmmmm