-si- Carrot and swede mash would be an acceptable alternative to a veg side if you don’t like the one on offer, I am not a fan of sprouts. Sweet potato wouldn’t be on my xmas dinner but i am sure others can/do incorporate it.
vinnyt77 Kumquat Agreed. I actually use cold butter, but the result is pretty much the same. Mate of mine runs a Michelin starred restaurant in London. The ingredients for his mashed potato recipe: Potatoes (1kg) Water (2 litres) Salt (49g) Unsalted butter (750g) Outrageously good.
Hursty Lol, ¾ kilo of butter to 1kilo of spuds!! Triple heart bypass required straight afterwards. And anyway, mash potato at a Michelin starred restaurant?!
vinnyt77 Hursty And anyway, mash potato at a Michelin starred restaurant?! Fuck yeah. Uber mash, with brilliantly flavoured roasting juices from a chicken, with grated black truffle. Outstanding… He also has a dish which is basically the world’s best scrambled egg.
Smallman1 There was no mash when I went to Le Manoir Aux Quatre Saisons a few months ago. There was a fucking great bill at the end though.
vinnyt77 Smallman1 My buddy spent 4 years working for Raymond Blanc at Le Manoir, and his mash recipe borrows heavily from RB’s process for pommes purées…
seanc80 Millsy Millsy you still haven’t given us a snapshot of what you might be cooking on your little ‘range’. This tells me everything. I can feel another Replay bootcut/Air Jordan tattoo saga is about to descend, where you give us just a corner of what we might expect on Christmas day and its so fucking shite its laughable.
-si- seanc80 I didn’t even dare to ask him, Sean. All mouth no trousers where the Xmas Dinner thread is concerned. He doesn’t use a microwave and its all done on his range cooker. So it must be tip top.
-si- Most of those top restaurants have a ratio of at least 50%, often more, in terms of how much butter/cream/oil etc they will mix into potatoes to make their mash. Def not an every day side dish!!!!!
seanc80 Millsy So now you are saying that you never use a microwave for reheating anything on Christmas day or even any other day for that matter? Mate I never realised you were such a keen chef. And absolute headbanger.
-si- seanc80 Fuck sake, posting the same things at the same time. Hope your da wasn’t my ma’s milkman.
Millsy Lol. Gleefully prepping your bag of Smash and spring onions in your new thigh high spangly moon boots from Santa while your insipid ham sits, lukewarm and pitiful in a 5 litre ice cream tub of Roller Cola. Give over you silly tinker.
Smallman1 Millsy Lol. Gleefully prepping your bag of Smash and spring onions in your new thigh high spangly moon boots from Santa while your insipid ham sits, lukewarm and pitiful in a 5 litre ice cream tub of Roller Cola. Give over you silly tinker. Fucking lol!
Smallman1 -si- You aren’t getting off lightly just yet, ed. You were another clown to laugh at mash… Am still laughing Si. The heathen in you is strong.
Millsy -si- I have yet to plan it out. I have meat on order (not a euphemism) from local butcher so far. I do know categorically that I will be cooking goose fat roasties and will be giving mash the s to the old werve.
bosstrabs Smallman1 I’ve given a proxy lol to Millsy’s comment there. I give you the thumbs up to appreciate his post. So it doesn’t show in his fixed rankings.
