Mash

[Dillinger4]

Firky, please refer to post #27.


I love taking the piss out of entire countries. Next on my agenda, those goddamn smelly brown people in India

I was only joshing with DC. He knows it.

 

[Chairman Meow]

instant is ok in a pinch, good gravy will mask it

I knew you were a wrong'un.

 

[mentalchik]

To my eternal shame my middle son actually prefers instant to real mash...........


(hangs head and kicks at stones)


he must be a changeling child !

 

[nino_savatte]

Butter, milk, sometimes whole grain mustard and occasionally spring onions.

 

[Vintage Paw]

Mr VP refuses to eat it He says he knows he doesn't like it. But he won't try it.

He had a bad mash incident as a child - there was lots of vomit. It seems to have mentally scarred him.

He won't even try a tiny little bit. He acts like I'm trying to murder him when I suggest he might like it now.

 

[Dillinger4]

Mr VP refuses to eat it He says he knows he doesn't like it. But he won't try it.

He had a bad mash incident as a child - there was lots of vomit. It seems to have mentally scarred him.

He won't even try a tiny little bit. He acts like I'm trying to murder him when I suggest he might like it now.

(((Mr VP and his Mash related trauma)))

It must be hard living without mash. I hope he can learn to live again.

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

butter, grainy mustard, salt and freshly ground black pepper

butter, cheddar cheese, salt and freshly ground black pepper

butter, freshly grated nutmeg, salt and freshly ground black pepper

and a random experiment that had rather good results was: okay, it's Saturday night, you're watching movies at home with chips n dips... fast forward to Sunday, and you have half a tub of leftover sour cream and chive dip in the fridge and a pan of potatoes on the hob being cooked to accompany your Sunday roast *ding* Ooh, yeah, that's gooooooood!

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

To my eternal shame my middle son actually prefers instant to real mash...

I'm thinking of writing to Gordon Ramsay's production company to invite him to sort out the hotels in Doha. In the Sheraton, 4*? 5*? I ordered a club sandwich one lunchtime by beach and they brought me a sandwich containing a Kraft processed cheese slice. And then in the Marriott -- 5* and I know that for definite, because I asked the manager while I was telling her the chef should be ashamed of himself -- I had a chicken dish served with mash and it was... oh lordy... instant!

 

[aqua]

mmmm mash

with milk butter and salt and pepper then any extras anyone wants to add wholegrain mustard, cheese, herbs, whatever takes your fancy

 

[Chairman Meow]

Nigella apparently uses Smash in her fish cakes! Well I was shocked! That's just wrongness!

 

[Detroit City]

Nigella apparently uses Smash in her fish cakes! Well I was shocked! That's just wrongness!

well, one does need a binding agent

nigella

 

[aqua]

that is wrong

I know I might get flamed for this but my passion for the once lovely nigella is waning I'm afraid

 

[Vintage Paw]

I was flicking through Nigella's book at work earlier and got very annoyed because she dispenses with the tried and tested method of all puddin's at the end.

How am I supposed to zoom straight to the good stuff if I can't bloody find it?

 

[ShiftyBagLady]

for my mash i use loads of extra virgin olive oil, salt, pepper and nutmeg. yummmmm. im going to make some tomorrow, havent had mash for AGES

 

[Detroit City]

for my mash i use loads of extra virgin olive oil,

i prefer butter in mine but yea, EVOO is ok also....maybe i'll try it sometime. good idea

 

[Biddlybee]

Never tried mash with olive oil... might go better with those crushed potatoes I've heard some people talk about, where you don't mash them til they're smooth, just kind of bash them a bit.

Got to be butter with mash, bit of milk (or cream), pinch of salt and loads of black pepper

 

[May Kasahara]

I just had to resurrect this thread to say that, inspired by VP's shining example, I had a big bowl of mash for my lunch today. It was delicious, and now I have attained Weeble status

 

[seeformiles]

My recipe involves mashing the potatoes with a Spätzle-Schwab (a german device for making noodles) so you get a "no-lump" guarantee.

Add a good knob of butter
a dash of cream
salt and a bit of nutmeg
dollop of mustard

Heat through - beating in as much air as possible with a fork!

 

[Detroit City]

How do you like yours?

I have to have gravy....can't eat it just plain. And some salt and freshly ground pepper too

 

[seeformiles]

I have to have gravy....can't eat it just plain. And some salt and freshly ground pepper too

I hope that you make an indentation in the top of the mash (a bit like a volcanic crater) and pour the gravy in like a small lake!

 

[Detroit City]

I hope that you make an indentation in the top of the mash (a bit like a volcanic crater) and pour the gravy in like a small lake!

hell yea!

 

[Herbsman.]

mash with evoo is rankness

 

[quimcunx]

I used to live on mash. mash with peas, mash with gravy, mash just with a big lump of butter in it. nom nom. with skin, without skin, with lumps without lumps. Bring it on.

 

[Vintage Paw]

I haven't had mash for a while. I wants mash now.

 

[killer b]

hot milk, butter, salt & pepper... mash it first, then add all the bits and whip with a fork.

you don't actually need owt else in it, surely?

 

[foamy]

what a coincidence - i had a rough skins on new potato mash with olive oil, salt and pepper for my tea. Lush.

reading this has just made me want to go and eat my dinner all over again

 

[seeformiles]

Just remembered, I used to work in a kitchen that did "mash with pesto sauce" and the extra poncey "mash with truffle oil" (a bit of an acquired taste)