cooking, fruit and size

[Reynard]

I'm a sucker for mash (with butter, pepper and nutmeg), especially with sausages and onions or a nice casserole made in my crock pot. Nothing like mash for sopping up good gravy

On the other hand, I'm equally likely to have pasta or rice as potatoes. Has spazle last night (a kind of German noodle) but had a jacket spud tonight.

Smoothies... Bleurgh.

 

[slowmotion]

Here's my daughter's Canadian breakfast on Vancouver Island, about six years ago. It was so utterly ghastly that it had to be put The Archive.

Pancakes, strawberries, aerosol can cream... (is that a potato on the left? )...and a tiny bit of bacon.

It's all so terribly wrong!

 

[summerdays]

Me too but I recently bought a new stick blender which happened to come with a mashing attachment. I was sceptical - but it works like a dream. Basicallly, it forces the potato up through holes - so it works rather like a potato ricer. The attachment looks like this:

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I've got that blender though I'm not totally happy with it.... I like the two blender heads but find the little chopper part a little small and I find it difficult to put the lid on it for some reason!... every now and again I start browsing new ones!

 

[summerdays]

Here's my daughter's Canadian breakfast on Vancouver Island, about six years ago. It was so utterly ghastly that it had to be put The Archive.
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Pancakes, strawberries, aerosol can cream... (is that a potato on the left? )...and a tiny bit of bacon.

It's all so terribly wrong!

That looks horrible ...

 

[growingvegetables]

Forks scratch non stick pans, ....

I hate non-stick pans. With a passion

 

[Spinney]

I hate non-stick pans. With a passion

I love non-stick pans...

... until they turn into stick-pans, then they are worse than pans that were non-non-stick from new. If you see what I mean...

 

[winjim]

I love non-stick pans...

... until they turn into stick-pans, then they are worse than pans that were non-non-stick from new. If you see what I mean...

Freshen 'em up with a squirt of GT85*.











*Don't.

 

[growingvegetables]

I love non-stick pans...

... until they turn into stick-pans, then they are worse than pans that were non-non-stick from new. If you see what I mean...

Whereas cast-iron (seasoned regularly) just go on for ever? Even stainless steel seems to be good - I'm using my first ever; and they are SO easy to clean. Doesn't matter how thick you burn the beans. DAMHIKT.

 

[vickster]

Non stick pans get clean in the dishwasher....

 

[Spinney]

Non stick pans get clean in the dishwasher....

It takes a lot of effort though, with my dishwasher...

 

[smutchin]

It's all so terribly wrong!

I suppose it's more efficient use of time and less washing up to have main course and dessert on the same plate.

 

[smutchin]

I don't really mash, but I would put the boiled toties in a plastic mixing bowl, mash them with a fork, then return them to the pan with a nob of butter and a dash of milk. Salt to taste, ground black pepper.

We have a potato ricer that I use if I can be bothered with the extra cleaning effort but yeah, a fork would do just as good a job for small quantities. Anyone who's really precious about not having lumps and/or a contestant on Masterchef could go to the trouble of passing them through a seive, but life is too short.

I always mash them in a separate bowl though - plastic, metal, glass, it doesn't matter - then warm the milk/butter in the pan, add the potatoes back to the pan, season generously, mix together with a wooden spoon.

 

[vickster]

Mash should be lumpy. Smooth food is for babies or people with no teeth or swallowing issues!

 

[smutchin]

Mash should be lumpy. Smooth food is for babies or people with no teeth or swallowing issues!

This is borderline trolling.

 

[vickster]

This is borderline trolling.

Why? It's true!