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  • #3452
    MissFlitworth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,057 ✭✭✭MissFlitworth


    iwantmydinner wrote: »
    Just got a 5k bag of Maris Pipers in M&S for 2 yoyos

    Will you make me roast potatoes please?


  • #3453
    BaZmO*
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,625 ✭✭✭✭BaZmO*


    Yes, 5 kilos of roast potatoes please! :)


  • #3454
    MissFlitworth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,057 ✭✭✭MissFlitworth


    We could split them between us Bazmo? Someone might come along with gravy too. I'm a hopeful soul...


  • #3455
    Daisies
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 4,644 Mod ✭✭✭✭Daisies


    There are Mary Berry cookbooks in Aldi at the moment for the grand sum of a fiver. Currently leading through one after I went in to pick up salad stuff. I now want to bake all the things


  • #3456
    B0jangles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,950 ✭✭✭B0jangles


    FYI Maris pipers also make excellent oven chips.


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  • #3457
    iwantmydinner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,246 ✭✭✭iwantmydinner


    So far the plan is: mash, roasties, baked (I've never baked a potato! I've never even eaten a baked potato o_O), chips, gratin, and Hasselbeck (sp?).

    My housemates and boyfriend are SUPER excited.


  • #3458
    MissFlitworth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,057 ✭✭✭MissFlitworth


    You've probably already seen this iwantmydinner, or have your own spuddy ideas, but Padraig Mor's cooking club post has many many many of your potato dreams covered. I don't get to make potatoes very often but I look at the pictures here and drool


    Garlic mash with cheese in? Yes please!


    Also - Teletext Pear with a cheesy, garlicky, gratin. I'm getting into a bit of a temper that I don't have this ahead of me this evening

    Anyhoo. In exchange for these unasked for recipes, please to leave roast potatoes for myself & BaZmO in a hostess trolley somewhere around the ha'penny bridge to be picked up after work today. Thanking you...


  • #3459
    iwantmydinner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,246 ✭✭✭iwantmydinner


    I hadn't seen those! Yussss thank you!

    I'll leave them there by the Grand Social. Be graaaand.


  • #3460
    MissFlitworth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,057 ✭✭✭MissFlitworth


    Works for me! Agh - potato excitement


  • #3461
    B0jangles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,950 ✭✭✭B0jangles


    I made these last night:

    http://damndelicious.net/2014/02/14/garlic-smashed-potatoes/

    But I used homemade garlic butter instead of oiland I forgot the thyme; they were very very tasty indeed.


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  • #3462
    Loire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,036 ✭✭✭Loire


    B0jangles wrote: »
    I made these last night:

    http://damndelicious.net/2014/02/14/garlic-smashed-potatoes/

    But I used homemade garlic butter instead of oiland I forgot the thyme; they were very very tasty indeed.


    :cool: X 1m


  • #3463
    iwantmydinner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,246 ✭✭✭iwantmydinner


    Smashed, roasted potatoes are my spirit animal.


  • #3464
    MissFlitworth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,057 ✭✭✭MissFlitworth


    I get email newsletters from Fortnum & Mason (If you're not familiar, it's a ridiculously expensive London food store, sort of place you'd order a hamper of preserves & gentleman's relish [and probably tea, even though you're posting it to India] for Daddy when he was off in India being Lieutenant Governor of Punjab and you were afraid of him going too native.) and they never fail to make me laugh. Today's piece de resistance is this £65 olive wood & sterling silver honey drizzler, just if anyone was looking for a stocking stuffer for me for Christmas...

    E5v0EiN7Dsbr7OQFQr5tuakSYrajyj466pfe9xy2_cKKqMb8WNDH2B1mX8br25_-s1_b1xRykn-tK46gOTBfN64E8iTkUEuySQ4_mw8VnO0lc-0numRNulTOplUi2isO82y_66fiGNVNcPa1jpMNh3fxyFFvUw=s0-d-e1-ft#http://email.fortnumandmason.com/files/amf_more2/project_408/Wk_11_Honey_Week/honey_drizzler.jpg


  • #3465
    Mrs Fox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,292 ✭✭✭Mrs Fox


    I want a butter dish for Christmas, one that's large enough to fit a lb sized butter block without squishing it.


  • #3466
    iwantmydinner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,246 ✭✭✭iwantmydinner


    Mrs Fox wrote: »
    I want a butter dish for Christmas, one that's large enough to fit a lb sized butter block without squishing it.

    Srsly. How hard is it to make butter dishes the size of actual butter?


  • #3467
    Kat1170
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,756 ✭✭✭Kat1170


    MissFlitworth wrote: »
    I get email newsletters from Fortnum & Mason (If you're not familiar, it's a ridiculously expensive London food store, sort of place you'd order a hamper of preserves & gentleman's relish [and probably tea, even though you're posting it to India] for Daddy when he was off in India being Lieutenant Governor of Punjab and you were afraid of him going too native.) and they never fail to make me laugh. Today's piece de resistance is this £65 olive wood & sterling silver honey drizzler, just if anyone was looking for a stocking stuffer for me for Christmas...


    :eek::eek::eek::cool::p:eek::eek::eek:


  • #3468
    The Hill Billy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,849 ✭✭✭✭The Hill Billy


    Kat1170 wrote: »
    :eek::eek::eek::cool::p:eek::eek::eek:

    Easy tiger! :)


  • #3469
    foodaholic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,533 ✭✭✭foodaholic


    iwantmydinner wrote: »
    Srsly. How hard is it to make butter dishes the size of actual butter?

    I know !! I've been on the hunt for one for ages


  • #3470
    MissFlitworth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,057 ✭✭✭MissFlitworth


    Kat1170 wrote: »
    :eek::eek::eek::cool::p:eek::eek::eek:

    I know! I find spiced anchovy butter to be very exciting too!

    U451163_gentlemans-relish.jpg


  • #3471
    Mrs Fox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,292 ✭✭✭Mrs Fox


    MissFlitworth wrote: »
    I know! I find spiced anchovy butter to be very exciting too!

    I'm sure it'll be just as tasty on hot toasted baps


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  • #3472
    MissFlitworth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,057 ✭✭✭MissFlitworth


    Mrs Fox wrote: »
    I'm sure it'll be just as tasty on hot toasted baps

    You're a funny bunny :D


  • #3473
    Merkin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,230 ✭✭✭Merkin


    I don't know where to look! :p

    I love the sound of anchovy butter given that I love butter and love anchovies! Has anyone tried it?


  • #3474
    janmaree
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 472 ✭✭janmaree


    To Faith:

    I know from your posts that you try to limit sugar indulgence but I just wondered, now that you're in Canada, if you've discovered "Butter Tarts" yet? I spent my early childhood there and Mum always made them, even when we moved back home. I make them now and they're dangerous.........I have discovered that they can even be eaten straight from the freezer. God help me. Must make a batch now because I've got them in my head again! Hope you're settling in happily. J.


  • #3475
    alie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,780 ✭✭✭alie


    On a whim i bought a butternut squash but now i dont know what to do with it. Im thinking soup but i also saw you can use it for muffins. Anyone have a tried and tested recepie.


  • #3476
    MissFlitworth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,057 ✭✭✭MissFlitworth


    Merkin wrote: »
    I don't know where to look! :p

    I love the sound of anchovy butter given that I love butter and love anchovies! Has anyone tried it?

    I've never had Gentlemen's Relish (oooh Matron), but I have mixed anchovy puree and butter and had it on a steak and REALLY enjoyed that. Just extra, extra savoury.


  • #3477
    IvyTheTerrible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    I've never had anchovy butter but I love black olive tapenade. Achoiade is lovely too.


  • #3478
    The Hill Billy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,849 ✭✭✭✭The Hill Billy


    alie wrote: »
    On a whim i bought a butternut squash but now i dont know what to do with it. Im thinking soup but i also saw you can use it for muffins. Anyone have a tried and tested recepie.
    For butternut squash soup...
    Peel the squash, discard the seeds & chop the flesh into 2cm chunks.
    Toss in olive or rapeseed oil & sprinkle lightly with ground cumin & coriander (& a hint of cayenne pepper or Chilli if you like a bit of a kick.
    Roast in a pre-heated oven @ 180C for 30-35 mins.
    Meanwhile, finely dice 2 carrots, 2 sticks of celery & a medium onion.
    Sweat the veg in oil for 5-10 mins until softened a bit.
    Then add your roasted squash & 1-1.5l of veg or chicken stock (depends on how big your squash is).
    Bring to the boil, then gently simmer for 30 mins.
    Remove from the heat & liquidize to your preferred smoothness.


  • #3479
    alie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,780 ✭✭✭alie


    I will try that. Can you just fling the squash in without roasting it?


  • #3480
    The Hill Billy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,849 ✭✭✭✭The Hill Billy


    You could, but roasting it gives it more depth of flavour. (That's my tried & trusted recipe. :))


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  • #3481
    BaZmO*
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,625 ✭✭✭✭BaZmO*


    The Hill Billy wrote: »
    You could, but roasting it gives it more depth of flavour. (That's my tried & trusted recipe. :))

    It also takes spices well. I think there's a Butternut Squash Curry recipe that I tried from the Cooking Club that was nice?


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