Stovies?

Gingham_Ribbon

I'm Scottish and my mum is half Spanish, so these 2 dishes were very similar:

Stovies: Square sausage chopped up and fried with onions and parboiled potatoes. There was plenty of grease from the sausage so it wasn't dry.

Tortilla: Same idea. Fry a chopped onion, add parboiled potatoes, heat till piping hot. Add whisked egg to cover. Stir constantly until cooked through.

My mum served both with brown sauce and maybe beans or peas. The tortilla was traditional to the part of Spain my grampa was from and it wasn't set firm. (A bit like scrambled egg with potato and onion!) But both dishes were very delicious.

twink

cant imagine stovies with sliced sausage

fry 2 or 3 onions and add lots of sliced up potatoes, a dryish potato is best, stir round, put in water to halfway up and a stock cube, partly cover and simmer till ready, if too much liquid left, simmer with the lid off, you can then stir through some corn beef or left over roast beef, whatever it is an economical and warming meal

marri_lou

My mums stovies are lovely - very very filling.

Oxo
Stewing steak
link sausages cut into bits
carrots
tin or two of butterbeans

Fling it all together and cook on low until steak is tender. My mum always done hers in a pressure cooker and it was bliss!

mrslovetocook

I had never heard of stovies until we moved to Scotland. I supose every area has a cheap local dish handed down from Mums and grans. Mine used to make a dish called panhacalty (phonetic spelling). It is simply. sliced potatoes, sliced, lightly fried onion, and chopped bacon layerd and seasoned in a dish. Enough water or stock added to come a third of the way up. This was served with bread and butter to dip in the sauce. Sometimes corned beef was added if Mum was flush. A true winter warmer

KE7285

Yep, my mum used to make hers with square sausage as well! So yummy but OH wont eat it so havent had it in ages. The sausage was cut up into squares and boiled with sliced onions a potatoes in a beefy stock - sounds quite disgusting but soooo good with some bread to mop up the juices

weegie_2

sausages (any kind), carrots and onions all chopped and browned in the frying pan slightly and then add cut up potatoes. Then I fling it all in the slow cooker, with some oxo cubes for several hours.

Lovely - especially on winters days. Kids love it. Cheap as chips to make.

recovering_spendaholic

My Mum was scottish and used to make it with leftover roast beef or on occasion corned beef, sliced potatoes and onions and it would be all brown and crusty. My Dad spent alot of years in the USA and called the same thing red flannel hash.

maragdubh

The modern Human is rapacious and fickle...food is only fuel. ...Idiot restaurant prices, and gullible consumers...24 hours later, its Mr brown off to the seaside. I budget for 20 euros a month for food, and stick to it. I live in beautiful Andalucia, southern Spain. I buy in the Market for essentials. When I go to the supermarket and put stuff in my basket, I generally put it all back and compliment myself on saving maybe 10 euros or so. I have fresh fruit and poached eggs for Brekkie, with toast and tea. I have my Stovies as a main meal in the evening,most days and vary it with peppered up Tilapia (fish) which is very inexpensive here in Spain, I make fishcakes out of it (again using Potatoes to bulk) and is delicious. On this general diet, I am a well fed . lean & fit 49 year old bloke, and can usually save about 800 euros a month from my pension after main outgoings. Its all simple commonsense and discipline. I have a wonderful sun kissed life and appreciate every single day, without feeling the need to shop and spend (maybe thats why Im single) for instant but unfullfilling , pointless buying of STUFF. I can read every newspaper in the world online, if I choose with no waste created. If you dont need it , dont buy it. I can donate to charities knowing that my savings could have been wasted on selfish personal greed. The simple experience and contentment of living without flash cars and bling etc is wonderful, and each day when I go for a walk around my beautiful town, the feeling of peace and happiness ..and gratitude is amazing....Simplify life , It doesnt have to be lived on a big scale....Does David Beckhams life , with 24 hr bodyguards, for all his family, and silly expensive keep the image up clothes, make it more happy,,,I think not.

jasmine33

maragdubh wrote: »

The modern Human is rapacious and fickle...food is only fuel. ...Idiot restaurant prices, and gullible consumers...24 hours later, its Mr brown off to the seaside. I budget for 20 euros a month for food, and stick to it. I live in beautiful Andalucia, southern Spain. I buy in the Market for essentials. When I go to the supermarket and put stuff in my basket, I generally put it all back and compliment myself on saving maybe 10 euros or so. I have fresh fruit and poached eggs for Brekkie, with toast and tea. I have my Stovies as a main meal in the evening,most days and vary it with peppered up Tilapia (fish) which is very inexpensive here in Spain, I make fishcakes out of it (again using Potatoes to bulk) and is delicious. On this general diet, I am a well fed . lean & fit 49 year old bloke, and can usually save about 800 euros a month from my pension after main outgoings. Its all simple commonsense and discipline. I have a wonderful sun kissed life and appreciate every single day, without feeling the need to shop and spend (maybe thats why Im single) for instant but unfullfilling , pointless buying of STUFF. I can read every newspaper in the world online, if I choose with no waste created. If you dont need it , dont buy it. I can donate to charities knowing that my savings could have been wasted on selfish personal greed. The simple experience and contentment of living without flash cars and bling etc is wonderful, and each day when I go for a walk around my beautiful town, the feeling of peace and happiness ..and gratitude is amazing....Simplify life , It doesnt have to be lived on a big scale....Does David Beckhams life , with 24 hr bodyguards, for all his family, and silly expensive keep the image up clothes, make it more happy,,,I think not.

The humble stovies have a lot to answer to!

Sherry2k

*niptuckfan* wrote: »

my inlaws are from fife and thats the type of stovies they would make basicly with mashed up tattie and some gravy and any other leftovers eg brussels, carrots etc

im from the north east and stovies to us is mashed tatties with corned beef and onions (corned beef hash in England i think?)

HTH

I'm from the North East and Corned beef and onions is Corned Beef Hash. Stovies is left over Sunday Roast Meat, (normally silverside or brisket) stove (hence the name stovies) cooked with onions, tatties and stock.

Tonight I'm making Chorizo Stovies - for a pleasant change!