Frozen roast potatoes
surely its as easy to peel and roast yourself? Especially if you have to heat them in the oven anyway?

And they taste better than bought ones too.
( bazza van der trance , ooh baby baby, baby baby. Get up on this., Wed 21 Oct 2009, 12:14, 11 replies)

Yes
And put them in boiling water for three mins then drain, add crushed garlic and some olive oil, shake and throw them in the roasting dish.

You'd be amazed how good they taste.
( The Scrunt Wants a Dozen Pints, Wed 21 Oct 2009, 12:17, closed)

sounds great
i only fixed my oven 3 weeks back - been without for about 9 months and have had about 6 roasts, and many many cakes since then.

this is good too - new potataoes, halved, boiled for 10 mins. then roast off with garlic and rosemary. Excellent with Lamb...

i am proper hungry now!
( bazza van der trance , ooh baby baby, baby baby. Get up on this., Wed 21 Oct 2009, 12:35, closed)

olive oil is not good for roasting potatoes
you want lard mate
( spimf ™ is whoever you want him to be, Wed 21 Oct 2009, 13:04, closed)

Roasting yourself
is probably quite hard. Surely you will need some help with the basting...
(ConanTroutman thought we would free the vulture, Wed 21 Oct 2009, 12:25, closed)

badoom tish!
Took me a couple of reads because of my blondness....
( bazza van der trance , ooh baby baby, baby baby. Get up on this., Wed 21 Oct 2009, 12:37, closed)

Same goes
For frozen yorkshire puddings - that fucking Aunt Bessie has a lot to answer for...
( snee held his breath since, Wed 21 Oct 2009, 12:56, closed)

my missus used to work with a sales manager who was in fact Aunt Bessie
she was the heir to the company and was involved in the daily running

so in effect she was Aunt Bessie
( spimf ™ is whoever you want him to be, Wed 21 Oct 2009, 13:01, closed)

well the point is 'convenience' that and being a chav
heres one of mine:

The Best Mashed Potatoes in the History of Everything.

Make the best roast potatoes you can: King Edwards, par-boiled, dried and dusted in a little flour or semolina then roasted in lard, duck/goose fat whatever you prefer except olive oil.

Then mash them with butter and cream. The sheer decadence of this seemingly destructive act might shock your diners. But i'm telling you, it blows Champ, Colcannon or anything Ramsay can dream up clean out of the water. Fluffy creamy and flavoursome with little bombs of crunchy goodness.
( spimf ™ is whoever you want him to be, Wed 21 Oct 2009, 13:00, closed)

Can we all please stop talking about food now?
I'm starving...

Gonna try the decadent spimf mash later though :)
( snee held his breath since, Wed 21 Oct 2009, 13:08, closed)

Spimf Mash
Well. I have a couple of friends whom made "The mash of love" one evening and then fell fastly asleep. next day anothe friend popped in, and was looking at the half saucepan of mash left over "mind if i have some?" - there best hafl ass excused were simply not enough. He ate the mash with their juices in it. And they had to keep a straight face or he would have killed them.

Is Spimf Mash the same?
( bazza van der trance , ooh baby baby, baby baby. Get up on this., Wed 21 Oct 2009, 14:07, closed)

I agree, but
sometimes I can't be arsed with the orchestra-conductingness of doing a roast dinner, or I don't have time because I've spent all day taking my kids to their football matches.
What you gain in convenience, you lose in quality, 'tis true.
( FishNChimps Achtung! Spitfeuer!, Wed 21 Oct 2009, 14:21, closed)