Chips and gravy.

[Pippyls67]

Had this for the first time ever yesterday. Well! My oh my! What a revelation! Beats ketchup and Eve mayo any day of the week. Try it and see if I’m being unreasonable 😋. Also - any more fabulous foody wonders out there I might be missing? What do you knock up when you just want a once in a blue moon self indulgent treat?

I am from the North and hate that viscous thick artificial school dinner gravy.
I have meat juices or some sort of sauce with meat.
F and C just need loads and loads of vinegar and salt and some mayo also.
Curry sauce. Just no.
Oh and it should always be haddock. One between two if necessary as it's nice and meaty.

@IVFmumoftwoI didn’t realise it was going to be one of mine until I read this thread! And now I can’t stop thinking about it 😂 told my partner earlier the gammon is going in the fridge for tomorrow as we’ve had a change of plan for dinner tonight, and that he has Mumsnet to thank for it!

Definitely the law!

YES! Chips n gravy is BANGING.

Yes, chips and gravy is amazing! Just wait until you try Scallops too, you'll love them.

Chips should be fried in dripping and haddock is the only decent fried fish. Cod is a bottom-feeder, as I was told in a Yorkshire chippie forty years ago. Haddock might be but tastes better! Vinegar on the fish, with tartare sauce, but only salt on chips .

I don't actually care if it's the dirt off someone's shoe, it tastes amazing! 😂

I’ll eat chips and gravy in a pinch…..but chips and curry sauce is top tier deliciousness 🤤

Up north we always have chips and gravy

Chinese curry and chips is the dogs dodahs !.

First time I gave it to my American DH he said it was close to a holy experience 😂

I mean 😂

How did you think gravy was made?

Have you never cooked a roast and made gravy using what's left in the meat tray?

It's the same as that.

Chips, gravy and cheese

Gods food

But the gravy has to be so thick that you can stand a fork upright in it. None of this watery stuff.

Chips and gravy yes but keep separate so the chips do not go soggy and dip them in the gravy. And real gravy please not some vile bisto gunk.
I am a bit particular though

I'm in the north
Chips and gravy with vinegar would be my death row meal.
Preferably from our local Chinese Takeaway rather than a chip shop.

Welsh person. We put gravy on everything. We buy plates which have high rims so you can fit more on.

I once took the kids to an English person's house for a roast and my son emptied the gravy boat onto his plate not realising that was all the gravy. I died inside.

I realise this may traumatise some most people but here is some lovely fish (haddock), chips and gravy. Delish!

The best thing ever is chips and gravy when visiting the north! I say this as a northerner born but brought up in the south

@NautilusLionfish
First thing to say is if you make gravy with a roast then if there is any left over -even a small amount freeze it.
Gravy recipe from a northerner:
Roast joint of pork/lamb/beef meat or a whole chicken (or a tray full of chicken wings on the bone - see Jamie Oliver make ahead gravy).When joint is roasted put aside to rest (if you have had roast potatoes in the tray with the meat move to another dish and put back in oven).
put roasting tray of juices and bits on a low light on a ring, add a good slosh of wine- red for dark meat white for chicken and scrape at the roasting tin with a wooden spoon boiling the liquid until all stuff stuck to roasting tin is dissolved/ suspended. Pour into pan through sieve.
Add 500ml water and stock cube. Simmer and reduce until taste is acceptable. thicken with a slurry of cornflour and water.
If you want it glossy add a knob of butter. If you want it to taste differently - eg for venison- you could add a spoon of redcurrant jelly or mint sauce for lamb.

I have indeed made gravy from a roast, that is the juices from a quality piece of roasted flesh and steamed vegetable juices. Gravy mixed from the residue at the bottom of a fast food deep fat fryer is not the same thing.

Fair enough!!

Chips with blue cheese dressing.

It's the chicken residue though it's kfc it isn't exactly an organic chicken but the gravy making is the same.