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tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
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Hi.

Can I prepare Colcannon and freeze it for the 23rd?  I am using a Robt. Carrier recipe which contains egg yolks and cream.

Thank you for your suggestions.
Tui
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  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    You can freeze Colcannon, but I have never used eggs in it.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I would cook the cabbage the day before and cook the mash on the day.
    Failing that, assemble it the day before and put it in the fridge. I've never heard of putting eggs in it. I like a little finely chopped spring onion too.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited December 2023
    I agree with both the above. 

    I also agree that adding eggs isn’t traditional. 

    Robert Carrier was an American chef who added egg yolks and cream to almost everything … it was the fashion back in the 60s when his style of ‘faux French-style’ cooking was fashionable. I think he was responsible for a lot of clogged arteries and heart attacks.  :/

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  • tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
    edited December 2023
    Lovely!  Thank you for your comments.  BBC Goodfood do a nice recipe.  I thought it could be a little too rich for the coming Christmas fare.  Am doing  BBQ sausage with it.  Cheese etc.  Think I'll stick to the original recipe unless anyone can give me the real Irish?
    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited December 2023
    This is pretty much as Ive always made it (I’m not Irish but used to have an Irish MIL). 
    https://theviewfromgreatisland.com/authentic-irish-colcannon-recipe-mashed-potatoes-with-kale/  … remembering that traditionally the ‘cream’ was usually the ‘top of the milk’ (unhomogenised) rather than the thicker creams we know today.  

    I use whatever green veg is available in the garden. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    My OH's late mother was Irish. She used regular mashed potato (with milk and butter in it), cabbage (green but not spring greens), salt and white pepper (never black) and extra butter added after mixing the potato and cabbage together. She usually served it with what I would call a ham or gammon joint or the leftovers thereof, but she always called it a bacon joint. It was regular food not special-occasion stuff.
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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Lots of Irish in my ancestry but not a one cooked a decent potato!   I learned how to do a serious mashed potato after moving to Belgium - lots of butter, cream and garlic.

    I then researched Colcannon and Champ when looking for British recipes to feed to Belgians.   This one is pretty good and is from a cook who trained and then taught at Ballymaloe school and restaurant and you can do it with your BbQ's sausages @tui34.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/homemadeporksausages_85815
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  • tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
    We are of Irish grandparents - both coming to NZ in 1920.  Unmarried - my grandmother being a seamstress, had the material for her wedding dress in her suitcase.  As my littlest brother is spending Christmas here with his Swedish wife and daughter - a little of Ireland for also French visitors - Colcannon!  I think the basic recipe will be very welcome.
    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

  • tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
    Thank you @Obelixx  looks good!!


    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    edited December 2023
    Another recipe to try then @tui34 is Nigella's chocolate Guinness cake which is quite grown up but also my sister-in law's grandkids' favourite birthday cake

    https://www.nigella.com/recipes/chocolate-guinness-cake 
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
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