Is there something wrong with this?

[powerhousesandra]

I'm a long time reader of this site and signed up to prove a point to my husband.

I made a nice meal of chicken, rice and crisps but my husband thinks it's weird.

It's no different to adding potatoes, crisps are just a different form. Am I wrong here???

And yes, your feet are lovely but I coukd only eat one and without the crisps.

Thanks this is my recipe guide for creating the crisp mince
https://streamable.com/99i5z3

I can confirm that salt cod, eggs and matchstick potatoes is a traditonal Portuguese dish. They are often used sprinkled on dishes as a garnish in Brazil. I'm not sure your version counts as a garnish 😂

After you thread about boiling Brazilian sirloin steaks from your local Brazilian deli, I am assuming that you are not Brazilian... I am wondering if you are perhaps asking the staff how to cook things and something is getting lost in translation?

@powerhousesandra thank you. I love a plate of mince.

You've also got a thread about proving to your husband about boiling steak ?

Steak to the boil http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/foodandd_recipes/4852583-steak-to-the-boil

That was my first post yes

It really does not look appetising

Not for me I’m afraid!
my MIL does a chicken dish that’s topped with cheese and crushed up ready salted crisps that’s passable but this is too many crisps!

If he’s sharing a bed with those feet every night, some crisps are the least of his worries.

😂

I would eat it.

I hope you don't mean my post. Mine was very much about my English, definitely inauthentic take on things and how I prefer to eat, not about anyone else. I am fully aware that aloo dishes and rice are a thing, my "we" was about how I prefer to eat in our house, not about the country as a whole. I would love double carbs all the time but I'd be twice the size with terrible indigestion.

I think this thread explains why I was so glad to get home after a trip to Portugal. I found the food just so stodgy and craved vegetables.
It's not for me, OP, I think it's a really unappetising combination.

I used to live in Portugal and came across this quite a bit - it's not to my personal taste (I don't like carb overload and am also not a fan of the mix of textures - I'm not a fan of 'half and half' takeaway curry either) but it is perfectly normal over there.

There does feel like this thread has a bit of an underlying tone of racism with its “yuck, foreign food, we don’t do that here” statements. I’m Indian and can confirm that we eat potatoes with rice and potatoes with bread in traditional meals.

This is rubbish... the food is being judged on its merits, nothing to do with where it comes from

It's weird and there's no vegetables.

That's double carbs and starch. Would you have chicken, rice AND chips? Rice or chips, surely, with some veg on the side?
That is a weird meal.

Do you add crisps to everything OP? as they're really unhealthy.

Not intended to be racist, the OP asked for opinions, I said it didn’t appeal to me. It didn’t appeal to OP’s DH either. Here in Scotland they often serve Mac and cheese with chips. I don’t eat that, either.

So weird

If posters are 100% sure there's no underlying bias then I would re-read the first page of comments and ask if you think people would have posted that strongly about eg. lasagne and chips, or aloo sag on the side of rice.

Just because a dish is foreign it does not put the dish above criticism , some foreign food can be bad for you too . Aren't the youth in S. Spain eating too much deep fried traditional food too ?

Sprinkle with Bombay Mix instead. Yum

Horrors. This thread has reminded me of something I saw Kim Woodburn assemble on CDWM. Cooked broccoli, mix with the meat from a cooked chicken and add a can of Campbells condensed chicken or mushroom soup. Top with crushed crisps and heat through in oven. Chicken Divan.

But OP's concoction of chicken, ketchup, rice and potato sticks is weird, @UniversalTruth, and it is no more Brazilian than her boiled picanha on her other thread 😂

OP serves her boiled Brazilian sirloin steak with spaghetti but that is neither a Brazilian nor Italian dish.

OP isn't Brazilian, she just went on holiday there and bought her Brazilian sirloin and batata palha "crisps" in her local Brazilian store back home. Try reading her other thread.

In fact, @UniversalTruth, I suspect when OP bought the batata palha she asked the store assistant what they were used for in Brazil and they told her that they sprinkle them on chicken in tomato sauce served with rice, meaning estrogonofe de frango, something a world apart from OP's ketchupy concoction.

https://easybrazilianfood.com/brazilian-chicken-stroganoff-recipe/