This is our standby cheap as chips dinner – if you can’t be fagged going to the market – the corner store has all the ingredients.
Apparently Colcannon is MEANT to be made with mashed potato – but if you want a quick dinner – you probably don’t want to ponce about making mashed potato. So in our house, we don’t mash. Mash if you dare.
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Colcannony Type Thing – or Bacon, Cabbage and Potato Fry-Up
Ingredients:
2 Rashers of Bacon (or more if you’re the bacony type) chopped roughly
2 Onions, chopped roughly
1 Kilo of Waxy Potatoes – peeled and cut into biggish ‘dice’ – keep it rustic
2 Cloves of Garlic – chopped higgledy piggledy
1/4 Cabbage – chopped roughly
About One Tablespoon of Butter and The Same of Olive Oil
Boil potatoes until almost cooked.
Heat Butter and Oil together in a LARGE deep frypan
Add Bacon and Onion – cook until onion is soft and bacon is getting golden edges
Add Potatoes and toss well.
Then add the Cabbage and mix well again. Cook until cabbage is lovely and soft and buttery.
Add lots of freshly ground black pepper and a sprinkle of sea salt
Serve with A Big Glass of Wine.
Ari and I like to eat ours between slices of soft white bread – but that’s just greedy.
If you want to ‘freshen’ this up – add a punnet of cherry tomatoes and a handful of fresh herbs at the end and toss well. You could also add some chilli.
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