ideas for leftover mash?
 

Anyone got any suggestions, got a mountain of the stuff from last nights tea

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I make it into fritter-type things. Fry some sliced onions and spices, add flour to the mash, add onions/spices, roll into balls, flatten and then shallow fry. Do okay in oven too I'm just impatient :)

Also good for thickening soups, or add stock and fried chopped leaks , season and make potato soup.
Mash freezes well anyway :)

Make potatoe cakes with it you just need flour .

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Ok ... lots of ingredients to taste ... but, how much flour do you add? You don't have to be exact.;)

And why do I have to roll it into my balls:confused: I can't see how that would improve the taste:D

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Sweat some onions, add some corned beef and then mix with the mash.........coat the mixture with some seasoned flour....dip in beaten egg, then breadcrumbs and fry until golden brown....a bit like fish cakes, but with corned beef.

Alternatively, you could add flaked fish...finny haddock if liked, some parsley and chives and then do the flour, egg and breadcrumb thing and you have some very tasty fish cakes.

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Just throw it away. Disgusting stuff!
Going to all that trouble to use up a bit of second hand mash? Crazy.

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i as going to say fish cakes aswell

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Yeh got no idea Gordon.:rolleyes:

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Like the idea of finny haddock ... Atho' I don't know if I can get it over here ... Always a fav of mine ... And you can use the bones as toothpicks:alright:

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I suppose you could use salmon, or tuna.

Gordon....I was taught to use up leftovers(there is too much food wasted today because people do not know what to do with it, to make it usable)...and done in the right way you would not know they were leftovers........and anyway, it isn't second hand mash....it's leftovers.

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you could always just make a shepherds pie and us the mash on top?

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If hairylee hadn't made too much in the first place(that's waste) there wouldn't be any leftovers.
By the time she can act on your suggestions it'll be three days old(that's dangerous).
I hate it when it's fresh but three days old-Yuck.

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Vegetarian option...add grated cheddar cheese and spring onions.......and maybe a few frozen peas......flour, dip in beaten egg, then breadcrumbs and fry, grill or bake.

Put the leftover mash on top of cooked minced meat(lamb or beef). voila...shepherds pie/cottage pie.

Mix with grated cheese and onions and put into a pastry case......cheese and onion pie/pasty

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It is only dangerous if it hasn't been kept in the right conditions.(and if it isn't cooked at a high enough temperature)
And maybe there is a reason why there was leftovers...maybe someone who should have been dining didn't.

When deciding if food is not suitable for consumption, you look at it, smell it, and give some to you other half...if he survives then it should be oK to eat.

Gordon...way back when...there were no fridges or freezers....we regularly ate stuff that had been sat on the cellar head for days......we cut the green off the cheese.......did we come to any harm?
I can't speak for you...but I certainly didn't.

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could you freeze it? sounds disgusting i know, but i have seen some frozen mash for sale in the asda

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Honest Gordon the green stuff formed on the surface is good for you - it is a basic penicillin culture - I think. Let's have a bit of a cavalier attitude:)

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Lol I went into more detail than Marl :p ;)
Sorry, I just tend to cook by trial and error, I love cooking.
Balls are just because I like balls (not really, just makes it easier to flatten them into neat shapes rather than raggy ones (stops them burning so much as well, but I reckon you know that :p ) :)
I get really mad if I waste food!Or anything, for that matter-if I've the teeniest bit of leftovers I try to use it!
^^Yes this!
I totally agree-if it smells okay it should be okay to eat.I even use food that's past its best before date, I can't stand being fussy about things like that, I'm grateful that I have the choice when it comes down to it.

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I take very little notice of 'sell by' dates. I use what god gave me and what has caused man to survive for so long....my eyes, and my nose.
The sell by dates were put on foods by the food industry(probably at the behest of a 'nanny' government) to make people distrust their senses and to throw perfectly good food away.(more profits in it for the food giants) This, while half of the world starves.

Because of my upbringing, I find food waste sinful. I throw away nothing that can be used. I was born recycling.

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J cover it with loads of grated cheese grill it and serve with baked beans,,,lovely jubbly..x

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me too....
i am glad i am nt on my own,,,lol

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have you seen the website 'approved foods' you can get some bargains if you arent bothered about best before dates :)

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would you be interested in some noodles from 1986? they were in a box of things my grandma gave me when the small boy was born

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If they looked alright and smelled ok and had been kept dry then I would give 'em a go.

Well, no I wouldn't eat them, because I am not fond of thea kind of stuff...but I would feed them to himself.

I also use leftover mash to top a vegetarian baked pie....a bit like cottage pie, but with all kinds of vegetables in a white sauce(whatever is in my veggie box that looks like it needs to be eaten soon......wrinkly carrots, mushrooms, peppers, floppy leeks that kind of stuff. It makes a hearty lunch and is healthy...five a day in one dish.

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Are you allowing P.C. speech to creep in here Margaret?

Is it no longer allowed for us to call a vegetable meal just that, a vegetable meal?
If someone wishes to eat just vegetables then fair enough, they can eat only vegetables, it's their choice, however a vegetable pie does not have to be known as a vegetarian pie surely?

:confused:

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No Less...I hadn't actually thought about it.......I only called it a vegetarian meal because I use it for a friend...who is a vegetarian....it is just a vegetable pie to us.....pastryless.

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Agree with you 110% on this ... I know that Canadians waste way too much food.

Most of Canada's wasted food dumped from homes - World - CBC News

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So, you would feed 'himself' with 26 year old food but not touch it yourself?
Greater love hath no woman!
Is he insured?

That's one of the reasons I love Stilton cheese. It's mouldy to start with so you can't tell if it's gone off or not, it all gets eaten.

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As I stated Gordon...I do not eat Pasta/Noodles...if I did then(and they looked and smelled OK) - then yes I would eat them.
And of course he is insured...do you think I'm stupid or something :)
(I should state at this point we have been married for 46 years and he has never once been ill off my cooking - he has been sick off drink, but not my food)