Got To Ask...

[Bobbisox1]

Does anyone have mash with a roast dinner?
We do but I'm curious if it's a local thing ?

[Bobbisox1]

I suppose it's different living alone

[Atheist]

Mash is ok, but I don't like smooth silky mash which is just like the "smash" bought in packets and mixed with water. My favourite mash has "lumps in it" like the porridge that the Irishman said he enjoyed when he was stuck in Steptoe and Son's hovel after breaking out from the "scrubs" with his younger cellmate.

[TonyV]

I always make my mash with skins on, some butter and milk.

[pastafreak]

"Smooth, silky" mash will be made with butter and cream. Nothing like what comes out of a packet.

[Apc2604]

A bit like Atheist I dont like smooth silky mash! I prefer crushed potatoes with just butter and no cream or milk.

[tamborine]

If using the oven it makes sense to fill the roast tin with meat, potatos & any other root veg. Thats is less washing up.

[Bobbisox1]

Butter and a splash of milk and a dash of mustard , I never salt when cooking veg , Mr B hates the stuff

[Bobbisox1]

No complaints for tonight's dinner , love my new gizmo

[tiggerblue10]

We would always have roasts potatoes with a roast. I'm actually making a fish pie now which son likes. Just waiting for pots to finish boiling. Everything else is done.

[Apc2604]

Potatoes are the only veg I cook with a bit of salt. And I do like salt on chips. I remember years ago when all veg were cooked in salted water.

[Bobbisox1]

Me too, even the chefs on tv throw in some, the only time I use it is on fish and chips,much prefer ground black pepper

[Maydup]

Roast potatoes are the first and most important element of a roast dinner for me, next come the roast parsnips, then the roast squash, some sprouts or other green veg, yorkshire pudding and gravy. If I could be bothered, I would have mash too and cauliflower cheese, but not instead of anything.

[david small]

That was played by Leonard Rossiter Atheist.

[roopower]

Always roast with sunday roast though I have a friend who says I should do mash too. I prefer to have more veg.

[Bobbisox1]

Sunday dinner here is
Roast beef or chicken ( don't like Pork and I find lamb a bit greasy )
Carrots
Broccoli or green beans
Turnip
Creamy mustard mash
Two large crispy roasties
And a golden brown Yorkshire pudding
With tonnes of meaty gravy

[diddlydo]

Never ever mash with roast lunch. It has to be roasties in winter and simply boiled new spuds in summer, always done with fresh potatoes, none of that Aunt Bessie's rubbish.

[LadyCG]

I've never had mash on a roast dinner and never would.

I have "mash" on cottage pie and fish pie and that's about it.