Always parboiled my spuds - learned it from my parents but I'm curious to try it without sometime and compare/contrast.
I can feel a Sunday lunch coming on in another week or two. Might invite all my comedy chums round to try it - I bet none of them have had one before.
well, i've paxo and knorr's in the cupboard at the moment :oops: ... thanks for the link--the last time we went to the local "british emporium", the gravys on hand were exceedingly expensive! i would love to try my hand at a lovely yorkshire pudding, to surprise him for when he comes back-- does anyone have a rookie-recipe to share, lol?
LOL...I usually get Mum to send some Oxo or Bisto.... However, I was out one time and the following recipe is very good...
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Moms-Brown-...etail.aspx
Does he like Yorkshire Pudding too? Not sure of a recipe, but I bet someone on here knows a good one.
ah! the secret comes out, lol! any preferences as to halves, wholes, quarters or chunks?
I guess the smaller they are, the crunchier they become.
Methinks that next you'll want the secret gravy recipe too..... :lol:
lay it on me baby... i promise i won't tell the uninitiated! :wink:
Always parboiled my spuds - learned it from my parents but I'm curious to try it without sometime and compare/contrast.
I can feel a Sunday lunch coming on in another week or two. Might invite all my comedy chums round to try it - I bet none of them have had one before.
...just so you know, we tried it without the parboil one day... the smoke alarms were going off the whole time, and the pots weren't quite as fluffy in the middle, lol...
Search, is your friend...
I posted a foolproof recipe way back in 2002
http//www.british-expats.com/viewtopic.php?t=943&highlight=roast+potato
Andrew
Search, is your friend...
I posted a foolproof recipe way back in 2002
http://www.british-expats.com/viewtopic....ast+potato
Andrew
ahhh... well, i admit, you caught me out-- i stopped looking at the arcane references to 'roast potato' on my search 'long about 2004, or so :oops: excellent tip about the yukon golds though-- thanks for helping me avoid RP disaster!
My mother never parboiled her potatoes unless it was christmas when she used to boil them then put them in the deep fat fryer. My mum is an Irish cook and I swear if the rest of the world thinks English are bad cooks, they have nothing on my Mum and her family. I remember my Irish grandma mixing up marmite and hot water and pretending it was gravy.
I learnt how to cook from home ec classes and a couple of interesting flatmates.
I remember my Irish grandma mixing up marmite and hot water and pretending it was gravy.
:D :D
LOL...I usually get Mum to send some Oxo or Bisto.... However, I was out one time and the following recipe is very good...
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Moms-Brown-...etail.aspx
Does he like Yorkshire Pudding too? Not sure of a recipe, but I bet someone on here knows a good one.
Eeeeuuuuu, that gravy is made with marmite or vegamite. At least use meat cubes or better still, base, or best, use stock.
I'm a vegetarian... :D Actually, I do use vegetable stock when I have it.
Eeeeuuuuu, that gravy is made with marmite or vegamite. At least use meat cubes or better still, base, or best, use stock.
I used to like the green oxo cubes and vegetarian gravy they did in the UK, can't ever find them here. Although I don't think bisto gravy granules have any kind of meat product in them at all anyway.
Oh, and I don't think Grandmas recipe was that one Adeshell. It was just marmite & hot water.
Yeah, that recipe is one I use when I'm out of Oxo or Bisto. Its very good, despite it having Marmite in :P
You're right about Bisto. My parents like the veggie gravy as well (despite not being vegetarians).
I used to like the green oxo cubes and vegetarian gravy they did in the UK, can't ever find them here. Although I don't think bisto gravy granules have any kind of meat product in them at all anyway.
Oh, and I don't think Grandmas recipe was that one Adeshell. It was just marmite & hot water.
frankly, i'm not too big on gravy, myself, but i'd bite the bullet and make some for my sweetie, lol... funny-- he complains about yank gravies (in restaurants and such), but when he makes some, it tastes the same to me. maybe my palate isn't discriminating enough roll
When you drain the parboiled potatoes give the seive a good shake and make the potato rough - you'll get a more crispy roastie.