Simply gorgeous chips
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Re: Simply gorgeous chips
I love stew - made with good beef, not fatty, vegetables and pearl barley. Usually make it the day before we eat it - sooooo tasty. Don't like dumplings so we have fresh crusty bread and a nice glass of red wine.
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Re: Simply gorgeous chips
Antie Em wrote:I love stew - made with good beef, not fatty, vegetables and pearl barley. Usually make it the day before we eat it - sooooo tasty. Don't like dumplings so we have fresh crusty bread and a nice glass of red wine.
That's the way I like to do it Auntie Em the pearl barley gives it some body , although I like dumplings I prefer the crusty bread with it.
Well back to chips and followed you instructions Northern Lass and you are right they were Simply gorgeous and worth all ths cals.


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Re: Simply gorgeous chips
Annie wrote:[Well back to chips and followed you instructions Northern Lass and you are right they were Simply gorgeous and worth all ths cals.![]()
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I'm so jealous - I could just eat a plate full of good fat (not skinny) chips (not french fries)! And a nice piece of cod!
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Re: Simply gorgeous chips
snoopysue wrote:Annie wrote:[Well back to chips and followed you instructions Northern Lass and you are right they were Simply gorgeous and worth all ths cals.![]()
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I'm so jealous - I could just eat a plate full of good fat (not skinny) chips (not french fries)! And a nice piece of cod!
It took me ages to find them but well worth the trailing about, we had then with Haddock.

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Re: Simply gorgeous chips
Annie wrote:I'm so jealous - I could just eat a plate full of good fat (not skinny) chips (not french fries)! And a nice piece of cod!
It took me ages to find them but well worth the trailing about, we had then with Haddock.

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Re: Simply gorgeous chips
Oh what a shame SnoopySue, pity I can't send you any .
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Re: Simply gorgeous chips
Pleased you enjoyed them Annie
bit expensive though £2.29 ish a pack which serves 2 I think
but what the heck!
bit expensive though £2.29 ish a pack which serves 2 I think
but what the heck!
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Re: Simply gorgeous chips
Mccains chips are very similar to the Dutch ones!!
Expensive though 2pounds 29pence? Wow!! I haven't got a pounds sign on my keyboard!!
Expensive though 2pounds 29pence? Wow!! I haven't got a pounds sign on my keyboard!!

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Rob wrote:I haven't got a pounds sign on my keyboard!!
Strange, we have on the danish keyboards, with the number three, we press alt gr and 3 at the same time! And then we have some extra letters like Ã" Ã"¦ Ø just to confuse us foreigners!!

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Re: Simply gorgeous chips
Now then me ode pals...I have had me chips tonite...and very disappointed
The bags I am sure have shrunk or we are just greedy pigs!
but even Wolvie said they had
where one bag would feed 2 we had to open 2 tonite

The bags I am sure have shrunk or we are just greedy pigs!
but even Wolvie said they had
where one bag would feed 2 we had to open 2 tonite

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Re: Simply gorgeous chips
Northern Lass wrote:Now then me ode pals...I have had me chips tonite...and very disappointed
The bags I am sure have shrunk or we are just greedy pigs!
but even Wolvie said they had
where one bag would feed 2 we had to open 2 tonite
We did not think there were many chips in the bag we could have eaten a few more.

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Re: Simply gorgeous chips
We had bigger bags before
I am not buying any more
5 quid for 2 bags of chips is daft
I am not buying any more
5 quid for 2 bags of chips is daft

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Re: Simply gorgeous chips
And you had one bag each!!??
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Re: Simply gorgeous chips
It's a bit late now but you should check the weights, sometimes underweight stuff does get through the quality checking process.
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Re: Simply gorgeous chips
Talking of chips reminds me of an ex-girlfriends mother. For reasons not relevant to the story I was staying with them for a few weeks whilst the girlfriend was away at college. Mother was not a good cook so I was quite pleased when she suggested egg and chips for supper, after all, what could she get wrong - overcook the eggs and serve up soggy chips - just like half the pubs I've ever eaten in, and I knew there was a chip pan under the sink full of dripping so I might be able to persuade her to let me look after the chips. So, she pulls out a frying pan, about a third full of very grey looking dripping and puts it on the gas, just as the fat was melted (there were still swirls of unmelted fat in the pan) she cracks four eggs into it, turns off the heat, pulls on her hat and coat and walks out to the chippy. Twenty minutes later she returns with a couple of portions of soggy, oil-fried chips and spoons out the semi-cold, undercooked eggs, wreathed in semi-congealed dripping onto the (cold) plates, empties half a bag of chips over the top and carefully places the plates in front of her husband and myself.
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