What do you eat your mash with...?!

piglet6

I'm talking about mashed potato!

We have a friend coming round for dinner later this week, and she is a great lover of mashed potato! So, I thought that I would try and serve this as part of the meal, but apart from the obvious sausage and mash :rolleyes:, or something like a carbonnade de boeuf/stew type meal, I was hoping all you creative cooks on here could offer suggestions for alternatives to serve with mash...

I know this isn't strictly OS, but I have posted here because we are on a budget (who isn't at the moment?! ) and I know that you guys are great for making a delicious meal for very little cost, so I thought you might have the best suggestions.

Many thanks in advance!

Piglet

ellies_angel

fish pie topped with mashed potato, sheppards pie,

jasmine33

Cabbage(with some porridge oats stirred through once it's cooked) baaked beans and bacon. Yum yum

jackieglasgow

Yesterday on Something for the weekend, Simon Rimmer cooked Pork Belly on mash, that's reasonably inexpensive for a nice meal, although it's dearer than it used to be, and should fit in with your frugal plan. It looked wonderful, and the guests wolfed it down.

Here you go, caramelised pork belly with spring onion mash: http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/caramelisedporkbelly_92578.shtml

Triggles

for some reason, we always have to have mash with bbq chicken

piglet6

Thanks, everyone - I knew I could rely on you guys when I run out of inspiration!

All of the above sound great - so I suspect that whatever variation we end up feeding our guest on Wednesday, Mr P and I will be trying out the other options in due course!!

(It really is quite "mashed potato weather" at the moment, isn't it?! :rotfl:).

Thanks again!

Piglet

ChocClare

You need a REASON to have mashed potato? What ever is the matter with you?

This is cheap(ish) and absolutely delish.

In a casserole dish, put 6 tblsps wine (red or white), 3 tblsps soy sauce, 1 tblsp sugar, 1 tblsp water and 1 TSP mustard. Mix.

Now add chicken thighs - skin on is fine - allowing about two per person (three for the men if they are not very big - ooh how sexist, but you know what I mean).

Mix so that the thighs get covered or at least coated in the liquid. Cook at gas 5 until they are cooked - I know that`s not terribly helpful, but I generally cook them until they start to smell nice if you know what I mean. At least 40 mins, probably more like an hour. Then take off the lid and cook a bit longer until the chicken skin crisps up. You want the meat to fall off the bone - nothing worse than undercooked chicken thighs :eek:

This makes a surprising quantity of delicious gravy. It is MUCH nicer eaten the day after it`s made, so cook it, let it cool (and you can then remove any excess fat from the chicken skin) and heat through uncovered until piping hot. Serve with lashings of mash to mop up the gravy.

This is so dead easy and it`s the recipe I`ve been most consistently asked for ever since I first discovered it. Yum!

jackieglasgow

I've eaten all of my homegrown potatoes already, but got three 3k bags of spuds for 10p each in my local Co op yesterday, it's mashed potato weather for me EVERY day .

My answer to the OP's question would really, in all honesty, be Daddies Brown Sauce :j:j perfect comfort food!

piglet6

ChocClare...

Yum, yum, yum, yum...YUM, YUM, YUM! :rotfl:

Nothing else to say to your post really! At this rate, we will be investing in a very large sack of potatoes and eating mash at every meal until next August (when I officially feel I have to try and eat salad twice a week in a rather poor attempt at showing willing to diet! :rolleyes:).

*drooling into the keyboard...*

Piglet

piglet6

I have to admit, I am also a big lover of mashed potato (so am only really using friend as an excuse! ).

Confession time:

In my deepest, darkest, guilty non-MSE, non-OS moments, I have even been known to make up and eat packets of Smash (cheese and onion flavour being my favourite)!!! :eek::p:eek:

Right, confession time over. I am going to take myself off to lie down in a darkened room until calm, and hope for many more lovely mash recipes when I return!! :rotfl:

Thanks, all!

P x

P.S. Oh yes Jackie, I have the Daddies brown sauce in the cupboard - for mash emergencies!!

hot.chick

How about with chops?

Or Pie, or anything really.....