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Whilst doing a spell check of a PM i was sending to Ironside i was dismayed to find the word 'stovies' highlighted! How is this possible? Stovies is an intregal part of any decent poker game/ festival and yet Blonde has never heard of it? Heads should roll ;)
ps The spell check also highlighted 'blonde'??

lol..pearls before swine springs to mind. Or are you his English tutor?

never mind the spelling any chance you can get us poker players some stovies tonight and tomorrow

Stovies ∝ Good Poker

Sausages or corned beef? Im a sausage girl ;-)

stovies good poker?

no stovies tonightso only made 4th when i should of won the game

Ok - I give up - what are "Stovies?"

yeah i was gonna ask aswell, wtf?

I'm guessing im both too young and not scottish enough to understand.

not Scottish enough.

It's a mashed potatoes dish. Essentially (or atleast the way MrsBoldie makes it) Potatoes, onions, carrots and sausages all mixed together in one big delicious mush.

everybody makes it differently though...essentially it's mash crap with root vegetables...it's very nice home cooking..and always the sort of cooking your gran does best. (unless it's MrsBoldie making it..in which case hers is obviously better :)

The Stovies recipe at The International here in Aberdeen is obviously a closely guarded secret though i can confirm we use cornbeef but not sausages.
Our next Stovies buffet will be available free of charge at the APAT Regional on April 5th.

I thought stovies were an east coast thing.  I've never eaten them nor do any of my aunts or gran make them. The only place I've heard about stovies been made in Glasgow is in Maryhill. Is that were your Mrs B comes from?

lmao..no she's from Edinburgh.

My family's from the west Mad & my Dad loves stovies. Personally I don't but they're fairly well known where I come from.

I must have lived a sheltered life concerning stovies .....lol

Posh Glasgow Burds  ::)





;scarymoment;

lol @ posh people from Glasgow. What was it Bolt said? "Posh Scottish people are the ones who finish other peoples have pints of Stella"
What happened to Bolt anyways?

SGH has stovies on the menu atleast once a week


some people call them corn beef hash


stovies should never have carrots in them

Thats the first sensible thing iron's said for years.Stovies should deffo be made with corn beef and to include carrots is sacaralige

Stovies made using sausages? Unheard of here in Dundee.  Corned beef ftw.  Although I have heard of mince being used I believe.

Plus... I've never had carrots in mine either!

from wikipedia:

Stovies is a traditional Scottish dish, similar to the French Pot-au-feu. Recipes and ingredients vary widely between regions, and even families, but the dish usually consists of tatties (potatoes) and onions and some form of cold meat (especially sausages or leftover roast.) The potatoes are cooked by stewing with fat stove being the old Scots word for an oven - i.e "Yer dinner's oan the stove". A regional variation is to serve the stovies with oatcakes.


Ingredients: 50g (2 oz.)beef dripping or butter 3 medium onions, roughly chopped 1 kg (2 pounds)potatoes 125-250g (4-8 ounces) cooked beef or lamb (leftovers from a roast dinner) 2 -3 tablespoons finely chopped parsley, chives, or spring onions Seasoning salt, freshly ground black pepper, allspice, or grated nutmeg

Directions: You will need a large heavy-base pot with a tight-fitting lid. Heat the fat in it and add the onions. Cook until lightly brown. Peel potatoes if they are "main crop",but leave the skins on new potatoes. Slice about 5mm (1/4-inch) thick. Or slice roughly in different thickness so that the thin go into a mush, while the others stay whole. Add them to the pot with the onions and stir well. coating all sides with the fat. Put the lid on and cook over a very low heat, shaking the pot once or twice to prevent sticking, until the potatoes are cooked. Add the meat, mix through, and turn up the heat to brown a little.

The same recipe can be adapted to use steak, beef or pork sausages instead of leftover meat. If making stovies this way, brown the sausages with the onions at the start

probaby!!

My Grandad was from Sterling and my Mum used to make stovies, skinless sausages, onions, salt, pepper and mashed potatoes

Great stuff

Carrots are a DEFINATE NOOOOOO

Im from Edinburgh too and I used to love stovies night when i was a kid, made with sausages of course.

I was 16 (shhh) when I worked part time in a bar, the bar food was sandwiches and stovies made from CORNED BEEF, first time I had heard of it. Being the newbie I was banished to the kitchen to peel a ton of spuds but I must admit I prefer the corned beef version.

Best stovies I ever tasted was in a pub in Fulham Road, London. The chef was Scottish and never did tell me his secret ingredient

Happy days.

its just been confirmed there will be a free stovies buffet in the international for the apat event on the 5th of april

also for the festival at the end of may (not sure if its all the events of just the main but if enough people ask for them i am sure we can get it sorted)

What pub was it Suzanne?  I used to work in the Wheatsheaf and I seem to remember they did corned beef stovies there.

As for the ingredients.  You are right, carrots aren't normally included but there is a Dutch dish (which I won't even try to spell) made from mash with carrots and onion - so I added a little carrot to make Boldie feel at home...  Also, I am a vegetarian so I use Cauldron cumberland sausages - I'm not too keen on Quorn mince...  Interestingly my brother who would never normally touch a veggie dish really enjoyed them made that way.

The dutch dish is Hutspot..but has to be eaten with Smoked Sausages and a proper gravy to be enjoyed.

In Edinburgh or London? In Edinburgh I worked in the Canny Mans in Morningside and in London I was working in a pub called The Goat in Boots on Fulham Road, I used to go to this pub nearby on the other side of the road but I dont remember what it was called. Ive worked in so many pubs in London its hard to remember them all.


HAD to be skinless sausages, chewing on a sausage skin is not a pleasant experience LOL

lol, one thinks not :)