[WG.]

Clapshot

Take turnip, slice, cut roughly and boil for 5 minutes or so.  Add an equal amount, by weight, of peeled potatoes (your favourite mashing variety) to the same pot.  Boil until ready, then drain and mash thoroughly together with a knob of butter and season to taste.

Serve with grilled sausages, bacon or stewed mince or - as we had tonight - a really good butcher's haggis and some oatcakes.  Really tasty.

The potato/turnip mixture is called clapshot  (nothing to do with the injections given to sailors Munty).  For some reason, it tastes totally different to mixing them up after they are cooked.  Leftovers can be made into a delicious creamed soup.

[shaun]

thats bad dave its ash wednesday today  

[WG.]

thats bad dave its ash wednesday today

I have much to learn about life south of the Highland Boundary Fault and, as Vikings only recently converted to Christianity, you will have to explain to me the extent of my faux pas.

[shaun]

it goes somthing like this
yesterday you filled your face full of pancakes and today you dont eat meat,i had pancakes yesterday.
but today i had a bacon butty for breakfast and steak n chips for tea .
so i'm half way there i suppose  

[WG.]

I'm safe enough - there is very little meat in haggis.

[shaun]

you will be saved just this once dave i will get the wife to say a prayer on your behalf and i'm sure you will be forgiven  

[WG.]

Thank you, kind sir.  For my part, I will pay homage to Odin in your name.

[Tenuous link here ... Ash Wednesday ... Odins Day ... Viking God.  I'd have hated for it to go un-noticed     ]

[Ann]

When we have haggis I do clapshot and mix in some stir fried cabbage

[WG.]

When we have haggis I do clapshot and mix in some stir fried cabbage

regular white cabbage mixed into clapshot or mixed into haggis?  Sounds interesting, I'll need to try that.

[Ann]

usually savoy mixed in with the clapshot, we don't have haggis very often though as I have to order from Scotland to get a good one, we don't like the ones they sell in the supermarkets.

[muntjac]

sounds like neeps n tatties to me lol

[WG.]

sounds like neeps n tatties to me

Not dis-similar granted but not the same  

[WG.]

usually savoy mixed in with the clapshot, we don't have haggis very often though as I have to order from Scotland to get a good one, we don't like the ones they sell in the supermarkets.

I'll try your Savoy addition.  I'll also PM you a phone #  for a butcher in Fochabers.  Best haggis I know and made by a German!

[Oliveview]

Whisky-golf,
do you live in Orkney?  I was in Kirkwall for a wedding last July, wonderful weather.
Pamela (in Spain)

[WG.]

Whisky-golf,
do you live in Orkney?  I was in Kirkwall for a wedding last July, wonderful weather.
Pamela (in Spain)

 I was born and raised in St Mary's (6 miles south of Kirkwall).  I live half-way between Aberdeen and Inverness now.

Orkney is a wonderful place although that is usually despite the weather rather than because of it!!   Here is an Orkney collage for you.  No less than three separate Unesco World Heritage sites!!