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Potato hash is bloody delicious

64 replies

Scandaloso · 02/02/2019 22:20

Potato, onion, garlic, and mushrooms fried up together with some paprika and chilli flakes. A then a runny egg bunged on top.

How can something so humble taste so delicious? Had it this evening for the first time in yonks and it was like I'd been reunited with a long lost lover.

If not the food of the Gods it's at least the food of the people who cooked for the Gods.

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HTKS · 02/02/2019 23:35

Lobby is a stew made with pearl barley and beef, nothing to do with hash!

JennyHolzersGhost · 02/02/2019 23:40

Garlic ? Wtaf ?

halfwitpicker · 02/02/2019 23:44

What are you talking about? Bubble and squeak? Is the potato already cooked?

Or corned beef hash I. E. A stew.

Can someone help?

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halfwitpicker · 02/02/2019 23:45

HTKS

^

You're from Lancashire aren't you? My grandma used to call it lobby

IncrediblySadToo · 02/02/2019 23:46

Years ago there used to be a cafe/restaurant that specialised in hashed potatoes. They were to die for. Absolutely A MAY ZING. Nothing has even come close to theirs, ever. I don’t remember now why they closed (possibly redevelopment of the quay it was on?!) but I was SO sad, they were the only place that did anything nice for vegetarians. They were fab for meat eaters too. Gutted.

AdaColeman · 02/02/2019 23:54

What you make in the sauce pan with the Bisto sounds more like stovies to me, than hash. Hash is fried, no mushrooms though!

SilverySurfer · 02/02/2019 23:58

Forget potato hash - bubble and squeak is the yummiest ever.

HTKS · 03/02/2019 00:02

Staffordshire (Stoke to be precise). Having lobby on Friday and I can’t wait!

Tolleshunt · 03/02/2019 00:06

Is this a northern thing? I've never had it, nearest thing I can think of is bubble and squeak. Is it like that?

IncrediblySadToo · 03/02/2019 17:47

Tolleshunt

No, it’s not. Bubble & Squeak is fab too, but hashed potatoes/hash brown is completely different.

Hashed browns you grate the (raw) potatoes and fry them in a pan with whatever variation floats your boat, but with other ‘firm’ rather than mushy things. Though lots of people add egg (I don’t).

Lots of the images snow sauté potatoes, which to me are NOT hashed browns at all 🤷🏻‍♀️

These are hash browns, but they don’t have much added to them. Mine vary feoendung what’s in the fridge. Usually something like finely sliced onions, grated carrots, zucchini & black pepper.

Potato hash is bloody delicious
Potato hash is bloody delicious
Taffimai · 03/02/2019 17:55

In New England they add boiled beets and call it red flannel hash. That's my fave.

IncrediblySadToo · 03/02/2019 17:58

feoendung

?! Fecking iPhone. ‘depending’

As for N v S. No idea. I first had them in America when I was little, then other places like NZ, Australia. I live in the SE of England, but am up north a fair bit (family) but don’t really see them on the menu anywhere in the UK. If they are in the menu they’re either like the McDonalds type thing or some other odd abomination. NEVER like the ones above. So if I want them, I have to make them myself.

Happy happy story, not terribly relevant to the thread but it reminded me of my happy happy find...

I travelled around Scotland a few years ago and found they did vegetarian haggis. I must have had it 15 times in the month we were there and it was different every single time. Much to my amazement I found a vegetarian haggis in Waitrose the other day...I can’t wait to try it!!

(I know it seems weird doesn’t it, vegetarian haggis 🤣)

IncrediblySadToo · 03/02/2019 18:03

taffimai I LOVE grated beets in it, never out boiled ones in it. Do they use grated potato or cubes? I think boiled might be a bit ‘heavy’ in my grated hash. Good with sauté potatoes though.

KurriKurri · 03/02/2019 19:10

IncrediblysadToo

Vegetarian haggis is really nice -(better than what I remember of the meat version from my meat eating days many years ago) IIRC you can get it in sainsburies and Morrisons too. You've reminded me how much I like it - havent had it for a while because I'd have to eat the whole haggis myself these days ! Grin
With neeps and tatties - yum.

On the hash debate - my late MIL used to make it with corned beef - she called it 'bully beef hash' and it was really nice - never found a veggie version that quite matches, although mashed poyato with cheese and peas comes quite high up my comfort food list.

KurriKurri · 03/02/2019 19:11

Sometimes they have a frozen version I think. (of the veggie haggis0

VenusClapTrap · 03/02/2019 19:21

I really, really, want corned beef hash now.

dingdang · 03/02/2019 19:40

Are we all just talking about Stovies?

dingdang · 03/02/2019 19:42

In some circles is just potato and onion fried up into deliciousness!

iklboo · 03/02/2019 19:44

Tater ash. Spuds, onion, carrots, corned beef and bisto powder (NOT GRANULES). Boiled in a pan. Serve in a bowl over a thick slice of buttered bread, red cabbage and brown sauce.
Next day, fry up until it gets a crisp bottom, serve with a runny fried egg on top.

Are we related? Grin

HTKS · 03/02/2019 19:45

Latkes are where it’s at fried potato wise.

Ollivander84 · 03/02/2019 19:45

@iklboo same here Grin
I have some made in the freezer and pickled red cabbage waiting

iklboo · 03/02/2019 19:47

I know what I'm having this week for tea. I introduced DH to Tater Ash when we were first 'courting' and he loved it.

Ollivander84 · 03/02/2019 19:48

Mine from the other day. I had buttered salt and pepper bread from morrisons with it

Potato hash is bloody delicious
PabloTescobar · 03/02/2019 19:49

I am making corned beef hash as we speak! My version is like a big crispy corned beef and potato cake. It smells gorgeous and I can't wait. Yum!

Tolleshunt · 03/02/2019 19:59

Thanks incredibly, the fried version sounds yummy. Like HTKS I'm fond of a latke, and it sounds v similar.