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I LURVE potato cakes....No napkin needed for them...

I LURVE white pudding and black pudding too...yum yum.

Bye Gins..~~~~~~

Got a new jacket today from a local charity shop.
Brand new with the price tag still on it from Next.

£75.00 it said...

Price by the charity shop....£9.99.

Trousers the same,label still on em,£25.00

Price by charity shop...£2.99p

Now thats what I call a good bargain...

I was bemused when the guesthouse landlady told me that the egggs were so fresh they were running round a field yesterday.

Robert

black filter coffee only please. FRESH.

The rest sounds just fine.

That was a good deal Fans!


the kind that I like



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My sister went to boot fare - and saw brand new still in bag - full length double width lined Dorma curtains - priced at £175 -and matching half length at £95 - when my sister asked - what do you want for full lenght curtains - the women said she wanted to sell them together - ( my sister thinking as she only had £60 in her purse ) OH I just wanted the long ones

The woman said will £7,50 be ok - my sister bought them immediately - and walked away - only a few minutes later - after thinking I should have got the other pair as well - at that price

Went back and they were gone


She says her best boot fare bargain Ever



Renes

Somebody give me their recipe for potato cakes.

Are you all thinking of those preformed McDonalds hash browns? Those are just a fast food invention. They aren't real hash browns, for pity's sake. Not that I don't like them. Maybe I'll get me a pack of the frozen no-name ones next time I shop, it's been years.

My sister's partner is Portuguese. We had a huge argument ... er, discussion ... a few years ago when someone said something like "pass the taters". He absolutely, absolutely insisted that "taters" are only the frozen deep-fried lumps (not that I don't like them) that he cooks for breakfast when we're there, brand name Tater Tots. Like, "tater" is trademarked or something. He would not give up. Never mind that he was born in Angola and his first language isn't English ...

Potato cakes are included (we called them fadge and my grandmother made them every week .... sometimes made with real freshly ground oatmeal as well, very tasty) hash browns home made, not deep fried, browned, made recipe closely held secret.

Robert

AGHHHHHHHHHH

Thats better, why believe what they have seen on someones tree on ancestry when there was no evidence what so ever?

ja...x

Wazzat, jax -- tater tots??

thread number please ja...x

Lol No Janey

The kirsty thread that I have been doing for a few days.

Think its sorted now, have to wait until tomorrow to see if some aunt has said something else to put a spanner in the works

ja...x

Ah yes, I abandoned that one to you some time ago. It keeps popping up in my threads, but I've stopped looking. ;)

1237869 ... aargh, it's back at the top again ...

crystal ball needed ... but probably ineffective!


www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards.asp?wci=thread&tk=1238305



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Anyone got a knuckle duster I can borrow.........I cant be ar#ed to pull teeth this morning

sighs....shakes head and grunts

There are hash browns and then there are hash browns!

Just working myself up to mention 'pancakes' to OH, but HBs are going on the shopping list. Thanks for the reminder of that delicacy.........!



Good buy then Fans? Nearly as good as my latest Shaun the Sheep acquisition from the car boot - he is SO wasted on children. My daughter has an eye for that sort of thing and has had some good bargains in charity shops.....I just tend to look for Shaun items or audio books. I'm kicking myself because I saw a Gorgio teddy - one of the collector's items type but I dithered and when I went back it had gorn! I already have two - both were gifts and I just thought I would get this to make a trio. Kick kick kick.


Now, "OH dearest, I've been thinking about pancakes........"

A work colleague of mine left a few years ago and he was so into Shaun the sheep

I had the job of the leaving gift. So, I bought about 25 Shauns, all in different formats....pencils, toys, rubber, drinking cups and soft toys, mobile phone holder etc...

Everytime he left his desk on his last day another Shaun would appear for his return, ending in the huge Shaun he now sleeps with

We had a fab day and Dave loved it..........

Note to self...........

Do not eat a double helping of All Bran before bed :(


Adds to shopping list; Andrex






Yours

Irish Navi (as dad called me)

Fans Potato cake recipe...

Mashed Tater (Spuds to the Irish and Potato to the Canucks)

Plain white flour to quarter amount of the Tater being used.

Knob of butter

Pinch of salt and pepper.

Mix well and shape into small pancake sizes but not too thin.

And for a twist I like to add chopped (fairly fine) onion sometimes.

Lightly oil frying pan and cook on medium high and turn every so often until golden brown

This one I found on the web sounds exactly like what Gran used to make (Word of mouth of course she'd been dead 30 years before I was born)

My dad used to make them from time to time when mother would allow him in the kitchen


8 oz/ 250 g/ 1 cup raw potato
8 oz/ 250 g/ 1 cup mashed potato
8 oz/ 250 g/ 2 cups plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
large knob of butter, melted
about 1/4 pt/ 125 ml/ 1/2 cup milk




Grate the raw potatoes into a bowl. Turn out onto a cloth and wring, catching the liquid. This will separate into a clear fluid with starch at the bottom.

Pour off the fluid and scrape out the starch and mix with the grated and mashed potatoes. Sieve the dry ingredients and mix in along with the melted butter.

Add a little milk if necessary to make a pliable dough. Knead lightly on a floured surface.

Divide into four and form large, flat cakes. Mark each into quarters but do not cut right through, and bake on a griddle or in a heavy pan.


I thought the cup measurements might help our JC

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards.asp?wci=thread&tk=1238393&jump=7213628#7213628

Are you available Fans for a 1911?