WHAT DID WE HAVE FOR TEA?

[Tripps]

Just wondering what Tattie Ash is (are)?

I'd call it "tater 'ash" - short for Potato hash. Simply made from chopped stewing beef, onions and carrots, boiled up together for a while. A staple of the Northern working class cuisine for decades Another sign of the trouble restaurants are in when they have to continually seek out dishes with cheap ingredients. Their overheads, which are largely outside their control, are rising steeply.
I wouldn't class it as a romantic meal out though - more a working class dinner .

bought some Eccles Cakes recently, the filling really surprised me.

Those are the origimals (still made in Eccles I think). There is a video somewhere. The secret is Vostizza currants, and rolling the pastry into many layers

Here's the video I had in mind -there are many others, but this is the real thing . Eccles Cakes

[PanBiker]

You forgot the taties in your ingredients Tripps. Can also be made with corned beef if you don't have any stewing beef to hand. In fact I made some last week, slightly modified with mixed veg though. I think every county will have some similar local equivalent. Chuck what you have into a pan and its either a stew or some other named comfort food.

[Tripps]

ou forgot the taties in your ingredients Tripps.

I wondered who'd be the first to spot that. . .

Thanks.

[Big Kev]

I like it with roughly chopped new potatoes, corned beef and butter

[Stanley]

I had the last three helpings of the old batch. Today I start on the latest iteration of veggies.

[Stanley]

Three hot meals of the new chicken and veggies, Lovely!

[Stanley]

New batch chicken and veggies X three!

[Stanley]

The new batch is going down very well. I cooked buttery neaps as an extension.....

[Stanley]

Chicken and veggies X three...

[Stanley]

Chicken and veggies X three. I deep fried my sweet potato chips and cooked my pork belly.

[Stanley]

Meat and veggies X three and I roasted a chicken I found on sell by date at the Co-op. Th cheap to miss!

[Big Kev]

Mario's in Barnoldswick for tea today, we have youngest offspring's in-laws coming with us. It's the any starter, any pizza or pasta and coffee deal on a Monday

[Tripps]

A bit adventurous tonight. Duck with pancakes and Hoisin sauce - From Aldi - about £6 odd. Heard of it, but never had it before. I added half a tin of lentils with onion and red pepper and a dash of chilli sauce. Said to be for two - so I cut it in half, and I'd say it was. Marks out of ten - about 6 or 7 I'd say. It was a bit dry. and lacked the fat which is a feature of duck. I've an idea it was half cooked before I saw it. I guess they are selling the dúck fat for Christmas roast potatoes. What does fat mean? Fat means flavour.

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[Stanley]

Meat and veggies X three. I stripped meat off the chicken and deboned it then cut it up and cooked it with chopped onion and spice. It is now extending the current batch of veggies..... Cost will be just over a fiver including spices, onions and energy. Probably about six meals worth in it. That helps bring the overall cost down.