Reheating Mash

[Orang Utan]

So what shall I do with my cold boiled potatoes tonight then?

 

[tarannau]

A massive hash brown? If you've any duck or goose fat, fry a few onions gently until they get translucent. Cube the potatoes roughly in the meantime and then add once the onions are done and push down in the pan. Let it brown fairly steadily quickly and then flip over (you may need to stick a plate over the top to cheat, then sliding the plated 'disc' back into the pan)

It's great with some simply grilled meat and some greens. Even a fried egg or two.

Or there's always potato cakes, rosti or some fishcakes...

 

[christonabike]

Chop 'em up, fry 'em in a pan with a little oil

Feck, I'd be jealous if I didn't have some left-over curry to eat tonight

 

[Orang Utan]

A massive hash brown? If you've any duck or goose fat, fry a few onions gently until they get translucent. Cube the potatoes roughly in the meantime and then add once the onions are done and push down in the pan. Let it brown fairly steadily quickly and then flip over (you may need to stick a plate over the top to cheat, then sliding the plated 'disc' back into the pan)

It's great with some simply grilled meat and some greens. Even a fried egg or two.

Or there's always potato cakes, rosti or some fishcakes...

I've only got sausages. And an onion. I'm really running down my supplies!

 

[christonabike]

Fry it all together

 

[tarannau]

I've only got sausages. And an onion. I'm really running down my supplies!

A potato onion and sausage fry up it is then.

No reason you can't have sausages by the side of a hash brown mind, but it my be a bit dry without veg and a fried egg.

 

[christonabike]

but it my be a bit dry without veg and a fried egg.

or any of these:

brown sauce
baked beans
mushy peas

 

[tarannau]

I was trying to be classy like. IIRC Orang's got a bit of an anti-ketchup fetish...

 

[Orang Utan]

Brown sauce is OK with sausage actually and might go well with onion and spuds.
I like Baked Beans sometimes bit not tonight.
Yeuch to mushy peas though

 

[geminisnake]

Yeuch to mushy peas though

Blasphemer!! Mushy peas = YUM
Though I found out a couple of days ago my son only eats them for a quiet life Bless him

 

[pembrokestephen]

Brown sauce is OK with sausage actually and might go well with onion and spuds.
I like Baked Beans sometimes bit not tonight.
Yeuch to mushy peas though

Brown sauce rocks with onion and spuds. Though if you're going to do the full-on spud/soss thing, you need a proper onion gravy, easy to make, I'll post a "recipe" if someone wants me to...

And, for the record, fried spud is God's Own Food. If you're using mash I made, it probably doesn't need any butter in the pan, so get it good'n'hot, and hurl that spud in there. Then LEAVE it. It needs to slide scratchily around in the pan, so you know you've got God's Own Crispy (not the mod) Bits underneath, then you can break it up again to distribute the crispy bits through and get some more on the bottom.

You can be making the onion gravy while it fries - that'll save you fiddling with the spud, and/or eating it while it cooks.

 

[pembrokestephen]

So what shall I do with my cold boiled potatoes tonight then?

Spanish omelette. See other thread.

 

[pembrokestephen]

Blasphemer!! Mushy peas = YUM
Though I found out a couple of days ago my son only eats them for a quiet life Bless him

Blimey, it's the opposite for me - too many peas/lentils/sprouts and I can't hear Ms Pembrokestephen and the Small One for postern blasts.



PS: moderately intrigued as to what happens to Snake Jr. if he doesn't eat his mushy peas?

 

[Herbsman.]

Thinking about mash makes you suck erect cocks????

How dare you?

So what shall I do with my cold boiled potatoes tonight then?

they would make an ace potato salad. cut em into slices, mix with chopped spring onions, and some other stuff which i forgot. add salt and pepper and herbs, and vinegar and oil. tasty as.

 

[Orang Utan]

Euch no, I hate potato salad - I've got a thing about eating things that were once warm cold, esp vegetables

 

[pembrokestephen]

Euch no, I hate potato salad - I've got a thing about eating things that were once warm cold, esp vegetables

Warm potato salad, then. There's a German thing with cream, but a very slightly warm potato salad with chives and mayonnaise is jolly yum.

But they're still better fried up.

 

[foamy]

I was going to post that i remember someone telling me that cooked potatoes lose thier nutritional value the longer you leave them, i wasnt sure if it was true or noe so i looked on healthy potato.com and found this:

Q. Can leftover potatoes be frozen?
A. We don't recommend it. While cooked potatoes can be frozen, they tend to become watery upon reheating. The potato is 80% water; and when frozen, this water separates from the starch and nutrients causing the reheated potato dish to be watery.

still not sure if the decreasing nutritional value thing is bollocks though

 

[rowan]

I would not trust asda stuff if I were you. some of the food I got from there was so rank I had to throw it. also, we haven't got so far the road to processed foods that we have to look for plain spuds and possibly doubting their existence on the market....

By 'plain spuds' I meant you can also get the ready-made mash without the cheese or cabbage added.
Whyever would I make a point of saying you can still buy whole, uncooked fresh potatoes??