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  • #47401
    Moonshadow_NZ
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    Evening Shifters, tonight we’re thinking of our friends here on TDK who are preparing for Irene to visit. They will be busy doing all sorts of little jobs to ensure that Irene passes them by with as little damage as possible.

    The fountains are flowing and there are huge vases & bowls of daffodils,jonquils, snowdrops and freesias around the NS office perfuming the air with their delicate scents. The tables are set with snack foods so you can pop in and out as your time allows. The Torties are ready to make pizzas to order and there are bowls of piping hot macaroni & cheese, bubble & squeak and welsh rarebit on the table along with fresh salads,seasonal fruits and berries.

    Come on in, put your feet up and relax for a while.

    #687682
    Marnet
    Participant

    Lovely nightshift you have opened this evening Moonshadow. Thank you.

    Uhm, what, may this ignorant American ask, is bubble and squeak? Not sure if it sounds amusingly tantilizing or alarmingly alarming! LOL

    #687683
    AV
    Participant

    Hello, MS!….. I’m just checking in before I head to bed before my trip!!… fountains sound wonderful, and I’ll take a smooth martini with extra olives, please ๐Ÿ™‚

    ….. hope everyone has a great night, and I’ll post from the ‘really’ southern part of Fla. in the next few days!…..

    …. scritches to HRH from Abbs and Cuddles!

    #687684
    AV
    Participant

    Hi, Marnet, you snuck in while I was typing!….

    #687685
    Marnet
    Participant

    Evening AV. Looks like Irene has bypassed Florida and will allow you a nice time there.

    #687686
    AV
    Participant

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_and_squeak

    this is the best explanation I have ……

    #687687
    AV
    Participant

    I know, right!…..

    … thankfully, Irene stayed EAST of us, tho, I’m hoping she won’t impact NC or NY too much!

    … bubble and squeake are basically a ‘good way to do leftovers’…. SO YUMMY!!!

    #687688
    Marnet
    Participant

    Ah, sounds like what I jokingly call “Mongolian Mess” with leftovers. ๐Ÿ™‚

    #687689
    Moonshadow_NZ
    Moderator

    I’m back! LOL with Marnet, I had a feeling someone would ask what Bubble & Squeak is. Oh how I loved it as a child especially when it had crisped and browned. In our house it was leftover mashed potato and boiled cabbage.left in the fridge overnight and then gently mixed together and lightly fried until both sides were browned and crispy. Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh delicious. Thanks AV for the link.

    Sorry for disappearing, I was in the kitchen making cream cheese using a recipe someone gave me.

    #687690
    Marnet
    Participant

    My grandmother and mother used to make candied citrus peels but they called it Glorified Garbage. LOL

    #687691
    Moonshadow_NZ
    Moderator

    LOL, love those types of names for homemade products. We normally call any recipe that I makeup as ‘sawdust recipe’ came straight from my head(where the sawdust lives). They normally work but we’ve had some horrendous failures that are not to be spoken of ever again.

    #687692
    KapitiKats in NZ
    Participant

    LOL Marnet. MS and I have a lot of ‘Sawdust’ recipes – ones where you just make it up as you go along and throw in whatever is to hand! MS, I do miss Mum’s bubble and squeak. I never have leftover cabbage at home and MrKK’s mashed spuds are always too gluey and runny to fry-up.

    Snap! You beat me to it, MS!

    #687693
    Marnet
    Participant

    Well, there was the time when I tossed a bunch of dibs and dabs leftovers together in an effort to be frugal. As it was heating up my cat of the time, Scamper, came into the kitchen, sniffed the air and began trying to cover up the stove. I sampled the mess and decided he was right! Tossed it down the disposal and cooked a real dinner. LOL

    #687694
    Moonshadow_NZ
    Moderator

    LOL KK, it was the yummiest bubble & squeak, I’ve tried making it myself but it never works out quite he same. Even frying leftover mashed potato is difficult, I have a feeling it’s the modern non-stick pans that are my downfall. I must try my reliable cast iron pan next time. Thinking on it I bet Mum used butter not oil for frying, hmmmmmmmmmm, may just have to have a ‘naughty’ day using butter.

    #687695
    KapitiKats in NZ
    Participant

    Or she may have used some dripping, MS. I think you had to overboil the cabbage like Mum did also!

    #687696
    Moonshadow_NZ
    Moderator

    Yes, you had to overboil the cabbage which she was an expert at, in fact overboiing veges was her forte! I don’t think she used dripping for the bubble & squeak, I can’t remember that flavour when I think back. The spud needed to be dry and solid. But from two ruined veges came a fantastic dish.

    #687697
    KapitiKats in NZ
    Participant

    LOL ‘But from two ruined veges came a fantastic dish.’ – that about sums it up! Her shepherds pie was a bit like that too – overcooked beef or mutton minced up with the dry and solid mashed spuds and it became magic!

    #687698
    Moonshadow_NZ
    Moderator

    Oh dear, poor Mum. She still has this thing about real food only being meat,potatoes and 3 veg.

    Yikes! ! http://news.msn.co.nz/article/8290632/giant-rat-terrorising-new-yorkers-killed

    Got to fly now, back later on the Night Shift.

    #687699
    roxysmommy
    Participant

    Thanks for the awesome NS, MS! ๐Ÿ™‚

    Hi AV, KK and Marnet!

    Chipping in with family names for leftovers…since my parents were divorced, my brother and I would head over to our Dad’s on the weekends to say howdy and have dinner. Except he would always make this God-awful…stew??? Not quite sure what it would be classified as but bless his heart, Dad sure did try! It was literally anything and everything in the cupboards thrown into a crockpot. My brother and I always called it “Full Belly Stew” because we knew to eat dinner elsewhere before we went to Dad’s so we wouldn’t be going hungry ๐Ÿ˜‰ LOL Poor Dad…loved him all the same but cooking was not his “thing”.

    #687700
    AZDEBRA 5/27 & crew
    Participant

    Evening folks ๐Ÿ™‚

    Thanks for the memories of what becomes of leftovers, lol. In my house, my Dad made chili, goulash, lemon meringue pie, deviled eggs, and buttermilk donuts (those were his specialities)….one of the many times my Mom was in the hospital with pneumonia, we had chili for breakfast, lunch, and dinner for days on end….couldn’t eat chili for years after I left home.

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