Bored with Butties phase 10
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Bored with Butties phase 10
This is really worth trying, it works amazingly well in the Bongo as a quick & tasty meal. The inclusion of the oatcakes has been trialled & refined during the time Mrs Muz worked evenings, and I was in charge of doing something quick & easy for the kids.
As with most things in life, there’s a hard way and an easy way. I tend to look at the options as the hard way and the Bongo way.
Haggis
Hard way – Go haggis-hunting in the closely-regulated haggis-hunting season which runs from St. Andrew’s Day until Burn’s Night (details HERE) and prepare your haggis in the age-old tradition.
Bongo way – Grant’s tinned haggis – a vital standby in any Bongo together with Spam®, Pot Noodles etc
Mash
Hard way – Peel some potatoes, boil them for 20 minutes, mash with butter & milk etc
Bongo way – Smash
Gravy
Easy way – Bisto in a jug with boiling water. Always comes out lumpy for me.
Bongo way – Ready-made gravy – just warm it up
Oatcakes
Hard way – Scottish oatcakes (biscuits). Now I don’t mind these even though they taste like chipboard, but we have a much tastier option....
Bongo way – North Staffordshire oatcakes. These are available from Sainsbury’s and Waitrose. They are like pancakes but healthier, and you know what a health-food freak I am.
So, haggis & mash oatcakes with gravy to dip. Fast food to die for
Empty the haggis from the tin. This isn’t as easy as it sounds, when congealed it has the look & texture of catfood and smells just as appetizing.
However, once all that fat has melted it reverts to the customary joy.
Smash – Erm, tip a pint of boiling water in and mix. How hard can it be?
Gravy – Tip the contents of the sachet into a dish and stick a flame under it.
Oatcakes – warm them in a dry frying pan otherwise they are decidedly rubbery
Bliss
The alarming thing in this meal was that the most expensive component was the gravy. Perhaps that says something for the quality or otherwise of the other ingredients
As with most things in life, there’s a hard way and an easy way. I tend to look at the options as the hard way and the Bongo way.
Haggis
Hard way – Go haggis-hunting in the closely-regulated haggis-hunting season which runs from St. Andrew’s Day until Burn’s Night (details HERE) and prepare your haggis in the age-old tradition.
Bongo way – Grant’s tinned haggis – a vital standby in any Bongo together with Spam®, Pot Noodles etc
Mash
Hard way – Peel some potatoes, boil them for 20 minutes, mash with butter & milk etc
Bongo way – Smash
Gravy
Easy way – Bisto in a jug with boiling water. Always comes out lumpy for me.
Bongo way – Ready-made gravy – just warm it up
Oatcakes
Hard way – Scottish oatcakes (biscuits). Now I don’t mind these even though they taste like chipboard, but we have a much tastier option....
Bongo way – North Staffordshire oatcakes. These are available from Sainsbury’s and Waitrose. They are like pancakes but healthier, and you know what a health-food freak I am.
So, haggis & mash oatcakes with gravy to dip. Fast food to die for
Empty the haggis from the tin. This isn’t as easy as it sounds, when congealed it has the look & texture of catfood and smells just as appetizing.
However, once all that fat has melted it reverts to the customary joy.
Smash – Erm, tip a pint of boiling water in and mix. How hard can it be?
Gravy – Tip the contents of the sachet into a dish and stick a flame under it.
Oatcakes – warm them in a dry frying pan otherwise they are decidedly rubbery
Bliss
The alarming thing in this meal was that the most expensive component was the gravy. Perhaps that says something for the quality or otherwise of the other ingredients
Re: Bored with Butties phase 10
Haggis from a tin...... ...no no no With gravy..... .....and whars yer neeps ladie Don't even think of producing that at the Scottish bash or yal be run oot o toon...
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Tinned haggis is better than no haggis
Actually, at the Scottish bash I was thinking of doing a kind of fusion dish, haggis paella
Actually, at the Scottish bash I was thinking of doing a kind of fusion dish, haggis paella
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Muzorewa wrote:Tinned haggis is better than no haggis
Actually, at the Scottish bash I was thinking of doing a kind of fusion dish, haggis paella
But you will have no excuse for not using the real stuff will you I can provide some Salca Celtica to help it go down.... if were talking fusion
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Tinned Haggis may be cheap just now, but after the long cold winter with record snowfalls,Scottish wild haggis populations are at an all time low.
Many have been killed in collisions with snowploughs, and the sheer volume of skiers and snowboarders have scared many away from their traditional roosting spots in the hills, leading many to die in avalanches.
The forecast reduction in midge populations due to the cold winter also mean starvation looms for these poor creatures, some may resort to begging for food at tourist areas.
The farmed haggis is a poor relative of its wild cousin, and the conditions they are raised in, warm, hard flat floored heated buildings, mean that the haggis suffers agony due to being unable to balance on level ground and overheating, leading to a very poor quality haggis. (See the Scottish Haggis Information Trust website for more information)
Shame on you for eating what is really Scotland's equivalent to the Siberian Tiger!
Just watch Haggis prices rocket in a few weeks time!
Many have been killed in collisions with snowploughs, and the sheer volume of skiers and snowboarders have scared many away from their traditional roosting spots in the hills, leading many to die in avalanches.
The forecast reduction in midge populations due to the cold winter also mean starvation looms for these poor creatures, some may resort to begging for food at tourist areas.
The farmed haggis is a poor relative of its wild cousin, and the conditions they are raised in, warm, hard flat floored heated buildings, mean that the haggis suffers agony due to being unable to balance on level ground and overheating, leading to a very poor quality haggis. (See the Scottish Haggis Information Trust website for more information)
Shame on you for eating what is really Scotland's equivalent to the Siberian Tiger!
Just watch Haggis prices rocket in a few weeks time!
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Re: Bored with Butties phase 10
I have to admit that we did go haggis-hunting a year or so back and may have done irreparable damage to their natural habitat - details of our shameful hunt HERE
We hereby humbly beg forgiveness for endangering the survival prospects of such an iconic creature
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Re: Bored with Butties phase 10
the gravy and mash looks good, well did til I read it lol cheddar + onion smash and beef gravy lol
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Nice to see the Staffordshire Oatcake in your recipe Muz, whilst in Bakewell I witnessed the Derbyshire Oatcake All I can say is the the OATCAKE is STAFFORDSHIRES so get your THIEVING hands off Derbyshire
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Allthough phase 10 looks good, you need to try Bacon and cheese on the STAFFORDSHIRE OATCAKE and lot's more combination's with bacon.
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You ain't had a Staffy Oatcake obviouslydebbiepritch wrote:just do a bacon butty lol
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no chips would be good??? loldandemann8 wrote:You ain't had a Staffy Oatcake obviouslydebbiepritch wrote:just do a bacon butty lol
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What with bacondebbiepritch wrote:no chips would be good??? loldandemann8 wrote:You ain't had a Staffy Oatcake obviouslydebbiepritch wrote:just do a bacon butty lol
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That's well errr not rightdebbiepritch wrote:yeh bacon butties and chips..welsh fry up
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