Egg and Chips

MadDogWoman_2

Can I ditch the egg and just have chip butties dipped in tomato sauce, with lots of vinegar?

It's DH's favourite meal after a late shift at work but after 10 years I still can't get them right - always overcooked.

I love chips & gravy, chips & beans, chicken ((from previous nights roast)& chips - yes I am a northerner.

I think I used to get sausage instead of eggs at home (don't like fried eggs) but definitely got the sliced white buttered. Which cannot be beaten.

I get very stressed when away south of home and can't get gravy for my chips - I resort to making my own.

MDW

P.S. I also like salad cream with my chips. DH thinks I'm very weird he doesn't like any sauce.

converge

OK this does involve bacon and beans but.... http:// russelldavies. typepad.com/ eggbaconchipsandbeans/

That's dedicaggtion.

deebee

mmmm, egg and chips now on my menu planner for this week, thanks guys

karenrel

Now come on, everyone knows that monday night is Egg and Chip night!
At least, always was in our house - and Mum and Dad still keep to this now theres only the two of them. The men (Dad and much older Bro) used to get the leftover meat from Sunday's roast, but other bro, mum and I always had egg and chips (chips and egg is SO wrong) with salt and vinegar and loads of white warburtons bread - but you weren't allowd to make a chip butty until the end - kind of as a treat for eating all of your meal up. Egg has to be runny so you can dip chips (don't let mum see though!) and if you ever got a double yolker - well, that was like Christmas!

Always classed myself as working class, though when I worked was prob. labelled 'middle' - pah! And only Heinz tomato sauce will do - I'm a Northern lass and proud of it!!!!! Scallops only ever came from chippy as a treat and if they didn't burn your mouth, weren't hot enough!

Never owned a chip pan in 14 years of marriage (too yulky to clean) so think a trip to see Mum and Dad next Monday may be in order....

(Incidentally, we were never ALLOWED to tell anyone we were having egg and chips and Mum was mortified when my bf (now hubby) first called around on a Monday night and saw what we were eating - she thought he'd look down on us (fat chance!). Little did she know then that this is his fave meal and what he always asks her for).

Gravy should only ever be eaten with chips when accompanied with a pie or as a tray of chips and gravy from the chippie - you southerners and 'posh' people just know nothing about food.....

I'm so hungry now, must go and get some supper (ie. bowl of Kelloggs at half ten at night, sat in front of telly).:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

brighthair

out local chippie does scallops. When I say local, I can see it from my parking space :-)
I miss scraps from the chippie, nowhere round here does them anymore. And a pasty barm too

ktpie

We had egg and chips last night with leftover ham and some peas. Some of the chips were sweet potato chips, not intentionally.

A couple of weeks ago I was in the local farm shop and picked them up intending to do baked sweet potatoes, baked them, cut them open on the plate and they were ordinary potatoes with an orange skin, felt a right idiot, so this time in the same shop picking up what looked like the same thing from the same basket I was fairly sure they were potatoes. DH cut into them last night to make the chips and this time they were sweet potatoes!

Turned out they were delicious with the ham so a good discovery. Makes it a bit of a fancier dinner!

rockie4

karenrel wrote: »

Now come on, everyone knows that monday night is Egg and Chip night

Always!!!!!:rotfl::rotfl:

We still have egg and chips at least once a week but usually Thursdays when I need a quickie tea!

I do HM wedges now but OH is desperate for me to buy a chip pan, his reason being that now he's growing spuds on the allotment he wants to try home-grown spuds as 'proper' chips :D

I'm tempted.........

zippychick

ktpie wrote: »

We had egg and chips last night with leftover ham and some peas. Some of the chips were sweet potato chips, not intentionally.

A couple of weeks ago I was in the local farm shop and picked them up intending to do baked sweet potatoes, baked them, cut them open on the plate and they were ordinary potatoes with an orange skin, felt a right idiot, so this time in the same shop picking up what looked like the same thing from the same basket I was fairly sure they were potatoes. DH cut into them last night to make the chips and this time they were sweet potatoes!

Turned out they were delicious with the ham so a good discovery. Makes it a bit of a fancier dinner!

Ahh bless :rotfl:Sweet potatoes go nice with a bit of cayenne or black pepper. Drool.

Chuzzle

Rockie4......do it, if you can spare the cash for the deep fat fryer you won't regret it. Home grown spuds cooked as fried chips are AWESOME.

zippychick

Sometimes (rarely) I borrow my neighbours. Can't help making a small portion of crisps too, just for quality control you understand:p