Bongo Fury

Fish & chips, that great British institution.  But not from a chippy, that’s cheating, how about making something nice in the Bongo?   Ok, I’m going to use tinned mushy peas, I haven’t got time to soak & cook proper peas, but what about making some form of chips (fried sliced potatoes, like big chips but healthier and you know how important that is to me ) from real potatoes, and doing a nice fillet of fish in some fresh batter.  Hmmmm, this could just work
 
I love the distinctive taste of plaice.  Don’t you think that God scored a bit of an evolutionary own-goal when he designed a fish that was the same shape as a frying pan?
 

A couple of nice plaice fillets, a couple of nice spuds, some mushy peas and one or two other things
 

Peel & slice the spuds....
 

....then fry in vegetable oil.  This is a fine balance between browning the spuds and spraying the whole of the inside of your Bongo with oil
 

Whisk some seasoned flour, cornflour and sparkling water together
 

Meanwhile, warm some mushy peas.  No artificial colours here
 

Once the spuds are done, put to one side and fry the coated plaice....
 

....and serve with lashings of bread & butter
 

A double-whammy on the evolutionary own-goal score, it’s also a perfect fit on Warburton’s Toastie sliced bread
 
Now you could argue that this should be disqualified for becoming a buttie of sorts, but isn’t it so much more appealing than a cheese salad sandwich from the local Texaco garage
 
TIP: Don’t drop the camera mid-cooking.  It’s difficult enough doing some of these things single-handedly and in a bit of a rush without trying to take photos as well.  But if you’re going to drop the camera, don’t drop it into the mushy peas whilst manipulating a plaice fillet in the batter and therefore clearly incapacitated.  Mushy peas on the lens is difficult to clean off and meanwhile the food is at risk of burning

mmmmm, that looks fab....should make a book of the dishes you make in the bongo and sell it. Might pay for a spare camera

Looks very tasty their Muz...... no more Fish n Chip shop trips eh!......

It will be runs to the get the fish and ingredients and cook by the sea in a car park instead.....

yum hope your camera's ok
didn't you dry the spuds? be less splashing then
I'm off to pack some potatoes for my camping trip, why did I never think of shallow frying pots
Cheers Muz

mikexgough wrote:Looks very tasty their Muz...... no more Fish n Chip shop trips eh!......

It will be runs to the get the fish and ingredients and cook by the sea in a car park instead.....

Oh, I don't know about that, whilst the above was absolutely fantastic, there's something appealing about the spontaneity of stopping for fish & chips from a proper chippy - a lot less bovver than a hovver - and safer for cameras too!

And especially if they'll throw a haggis on top as well

We found our splash guard at a Pound shop I think but several available;
http://www.lakeland.co.uk/F/C/pots-pans ... sh%20guard

debbiepritch wrote:yum hope your camera's ok

It survived - there's just a green tinge to some of the shots now

I was thinking of getting a new one anyway, only taken about 30,000 pics with this one so it doesn't owe me aything. Anyone fancy a "nearly new" Fuji, only dropped once into a bowl of guacamole

I cook at a chip shop(the best chip shop in our town in fact) and I always pride myself with how it looks when in the warmer but yours Muz just looks the best.I am salvating as i write lol. Might give this a go when we get Cae-Du

When you going to Cae Du again?

You have outdone yourself today Muz. I am going to insist we find a meet where you can cook that for us. Don't know if I could be bothered to bring oil in the bongo but think it would be just as nice with new spuds or boilies though. Maybe those Ormskirk potatoes the Hairy Bikers were writing poetry too. Looks really nice.

I did have some assistance on this one, Jr is doing 'work' again and took care of buttering the bread. He'll make the England cricket team with his expertise at catching the camera though

That's why there's two fish

hatris wrote:You have outdone yourself today Muz. I am going to insist we find a meet where you can cook that for us. Don't know if I could be bothered to bring oil in the bongo but think it would be just as nice with new spuds or boilies though. Maybe those Ormskirk potatoes the Hairy Bikers were writing poetry too. Looks really nice.

No no no no no, boiled spuds wouldn't be the same at all. But if we were on EHU we could cheat and use a deep-fat fryer for the spuds

Fleetwood for the plaice, big juicy ones, not the crap you get in Asda

Muzorewa wrote:

mikexgough wrote:Looks very tasty their Muz...... no more Fish n Chip shop trips eh!......

It will be runs to the get the fish and ingredients and cook by the sea in a car park instead.....

Oh, I don't know about that, whilst the above was absolutely fantastic, there's something appealing about the spontaneity of stopping for fish & chips from a proper chippy - a lot less bovver than a hovver - and safer for cameras too!

And especially if they'll throw a haggis on top as well

Thinking about this again, I recognise that there isn't much spontaneity about a 710-mile trip for fish & chips, but hey, isn't that what Bongos are for?