"graham" > wrote in message
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> On 25/10/2015 11:52 AM, l not -l wrote:
>> On 25-Oct-2015, wrote:
>>
>>> On Sunday, October 25, 2015 at 10:38:01 AM UTC-4, Ophelia wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks, very much What do you think of these 'hash browns'? This is
>>>> what
>>>> confused me:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.food.com/recipe/slow-cook...sserole-217375
>>>
>>> I can see why. Americans are endlessly inventive about morphing things
>>> into casserole-ish dishes.
>>>
>>> This one looks like the sort of thing someone would put together
>>> in advance and serve, for example, to extended family coming for
>>> the holidays. My in-laws had a number of similar recipes that they
>>> fed to their 5 boys and their wives and children. Generally they'd
>>> serve something like with Christmas Eve dinner, with a more formal
>>> meal served on Christmas Day.
>> My mother used to make a similar dish, just not in a crockpot, for family
>> gatherings. It was baked in a 9x13 casserole.
>> The recipe at
>> http://www.deepsouthdish.com/2008/11...casserole.html
>> is either the one my mother used or very close. It is the one I'll use
>> for
>> out Thanksgiving dinner.
>>
>
> Using hash browns in this way isn't so unusual. There's a Peruvian dish
> called "Carapulcra" that uses papa seca, small cubes of dried potato.
>
> http://www.sbs.com.au/food/recipes/p...uce-carapulcra
>
> I have a packet of Papa Seca and a jar of Aji Panca in the cupboard but
> haven't got around to making it yet.
>
> Ophelia may remember it as a subject on the UK food group.
> Apparently, peanuts are an essential ingredient but as I have "gone off"
> them (I don't like the flavour that much) I will probably make it without.
> Graham

No, I don't remember it sorry, but I do agree on the peanuts.
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