Day: June 18, 2019

Another word for computer problems…….router!
After another week of Internet dropping in and out, ending with nothing at all, we’re now back in business
I just say….thank goodness for scheduled posts.  And it’s good to see The Golfer smiling again 🙂

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A couple of years ago I wrote a post .. A Way with Words …describing how some people use words in a way that gives a slightly different meaning to reality.  Making it seem more important than it is.

You’ll be happy to know it still goes on!  Just in another way.

Last week The Golfer took us out to lunch…..at his club…the golf club that is.

Now and again my daughters and I get together for lunch in a local cafe, this time they thought they’d like their Dad to come along..  He’s often occupied on those ‘ladies who like to lunch’ days and what with us being away ’til September, then both of them away soon after it’ll be a while ’til we see each other, so last week we all tootled off up to Healesville (yes again) …..because they had persuaded The Golfer to treat us….us being our ‘big’ girl, our ‘little’ girl and me 😊

Winter time means a new menu with lots of sections to look through.   Local produce is used – which often produces what could be described as ‘interesting’ dishes  – this is just a little of what’s on offer.

The girls poured over the slow section……asking about Paris mash, a term they weren’t familiar with ….ParisMash  the waitress said,  is basically creamy mashed potatoes with oodles of butter.

Then she added ‘Sometimes the chef here will add chopped Spring Onions for a bit of a bite!’

Added Spring Onions –  I couldn’t believe it.  Oh you mean like champ I said.
Doesn’t your chef know that’s basic Irish fare.

Champ is an Irish dish,made by combining mashed potatoes and chopped scallions (or spring onions)  with butter, milk and optionally, salt and pepper.

On the odd occasion my Dad cooked dinner champ was always on the menu.

Some would be delighted with this little snippet – they could go home and wow their families with Paris Mash and Champ – to me it will still be plain old mashed potatoes……sometimes with a little bit extra added to give it a bite!

With the spuds on the menu now having a classy name – certainly one that makes them appear more important than just another staple vegetable – what other veg do you call by a gastronomic term?