Bubble & Squeak dispute - I'm right, surely?

[Caenea]

Friend popped round Monday, and as I was clattering about the kitchen she asked, as you do, what I was planning to cook for tea. As we'd had a roast on the Sunday, I explained that I was doing cold meat & a couple of sausages to pad it out (as there were about two slices of pork left), mashed potatoes and bubble and squeak. She then observed me chopping up left over veg/roast potatoes/stuffing/an onion and putting this into a frying pan, at which point she asked me what the devil I thought I was doing...

Apparently, Bubble and Squeak is not a fried off mix of the leftovers but should be a stew, made up with left over gravy/beef stock.

AIBU? She's wrong, surely - I've never heard of B&S being a stew!!

@trevor - any sausages in? Sausage, mash and veg, perhaps with onion gravy - then leftovers will be available!

She is very wrong. Very very wrong. YANBU.

Gravy with Bubble and Squeak? Bizarre.

Exploded - My DH swears I am the only person to do extra veg etc at Christmas just so I can have B&S on Boxing Day!! (He doesn't like it )

But definitely fried, not a stew. It's called B&S because that's the noise it makes when frying - I've never heard a stew make that noise

You're right, she's wrong.

Post Burns Night bubble and squeak is great - fry up mash and swede plus a bit of leftover haggis. Fantastic. Nice if you have a bit of cabbage or Brussels sprouts as well although I realise green things aren't traditional for Burns Supper.

You are right - bubble and squeak was known as 'fry up' when I were a girl because it's FRIED UP.

However...

Your friend's leftovers stew sounds v like recipes I've read for scottish stovies. Was her mother of scottish ancestry, by any chance?

Similar to corned beef hash - was always mash/onions/corned beef where I come from. I was horrified when a flatmate of northern extraction made her version, which was, essentially, corned beef stew.

Think she's talking about stovies which are made into a stew - Scottish thing I think.

yay fruity - you have confirmed my theory!

As far as I know she isn't Scottish! She's from Yorkshire, I was wondering if it was a secret Northern thing I knew nothing of as I'm a filthy Southern interloper

I'll be linking her to this thread though so she knows she is committing a terrible crime.

You are of course right. However my MIL makes it like your friend. It's not really like a stew tbh, it's more just like the leftover veg and roast potatoes all chopped up (not as small as I'd do them for proper fried bubble and squeak) and then mixed with the gravy. So it's sort of moist but not a stew. It's actually lovely, just shouldn't be called bubble and squeak!

DH was very confused the first time he had B&S at my house as like your friend he'd only ever known his mother's weird version!

YANBU

It's some kind of leftover potatoes and veg shaped into patties and fried. Bloody delicious.

It's veggies fried up, but some pat flour onto it and make it all into squares/ individual portions like the vile stuff you can buy frozen.
The important ingredient is cabbage as this makes the squeak, otherwise it's just bubble.

Oh, I'm NW and have never had it made like a stew.

I was wondering if it was a secret Northern thing I knew nothing of

Nah! I'm a Northerner. You're right, she's wrong. And her mum.

You're version is correct. Her version is what we call a 'cook up', I'm from south east.

The important ingredient is cabbage as this makes the squeak, otherwise it's just bubble.

My dad says it's the sprouts that make it the squeak. Mind you pubs here serve bubble and squeak. Or bubble and squeak with sprouts so who knows.

Either way its left over potatoes and veg mashed up and fried. Never made it into patties though.

Serve with sausages and Branston pickle.

caenea no sausages in but I am prepared to go and buy some

Newt

I guess sprouts squeak too, hadn't considered those.
There's never usually any left in our house, we love them
awful smell from bedrooms the next morning though

This is what we are having for dinner. Its best fried in butter too!

We'll be having bacon and a runny egg with it, & some mushrooms too if I can be @rsed.

You're right, she is very wrong.

gillybeanz

My dad has been known to cook sprouts specially for bubble and squeak. He said they provide the squeak because they make you fart

I really want bubble and squeak now so will have to make some kind of slimming world version at some pointmore

Minus the more. Stupid phone

Both wrong!

Its potato and cabbage, cabbage being the squeak part.

Yours sounds nice though.

LTB, she's so wrong

It also needs grated cheese in my opinion. And a fried egg too.