While we’re sad we can’t serve up actual chips for our scratch night (what with it being an online event and all), here are some of the favourite recipes from members of the Graeae team, as well as some of the TV shows we’ve enjoyed the most in lockdown:
Jodi-Alissa Bickerton, Creative Learning Director
Chip recipe: Chip Butties
Ingredients:
- Tatties
- Veggie Oil
- White Bread
- Dead horse (tomato sauce/ketchup)
- Glass of milk
Method:
- Dinner Plate and Fork3 x Tatties, cut into small wedges
- Toss 2 cups of vegetable oil in a pot. Crank up the gas.
- Fry until they pop light brown and go crispy – about 15-20 mins)
- 2 x Slices of sweet white bread, halved into rectangles (important)
- Slap the chips into the bread, leaving a few on the side to gobble when all your bread’s gone down the hatchet and you’re still only half way through your cup of cold milk
- Spray Dead Horse (tomato sauce/ketchup) onto the chips
- Close each buttie by folding inwards and leaning forwards to avoid the spill
- Finish your milk
Favourite Box Set
Modern Family became my second family, and Phil Dunphy became my live in husband. When it ended, I missed him. Then I discovered there were 11 seasons not 8, and I got my husband back. It was like those couples who marry, divorce, then bump into each other years later in Ikea and get married again.
Lizzy Luxford, Access Manager
Chip recipe: Cheesy Fried Potatoes
Ingredients:
- 8 new potatoes
- Big tbsp of butter
- 2 cloves garlic
- 1 tsp paprika
- Soft cheese (brie, reblechon, camembert, tomme – anything melty!)
- 1 glass of white wine
Method:
- Pre-heat your oven to 200 degrees
- Cut your new potatoes in half lengthways
- Melt the butter in a large frying pan on a medium heat
- Crush or chop the garlic and add it to the melted butter
- Add the potatoes and the paprika and give everything a stir
- Fry in the butter for 5 minutes until starting to crisp and then transfer to the oven
- Leave to roast for 10-15 minutes until golden and delicious. If they seem a bit dry, chuck some more butter on
- Drink the glass of wine, read a chapter of Reasons To Be Graeae, take a moment for yourself
- Break up the cheese and scatter over the potatoes, then return to the oven for 5 minutes or so, until the cheese has melted
- Season with salt and pepper to taste
- Eat! Can recommend this as a late night snack after a night out at the theatre with the Graeae team
Favourite Box Set
I watched all 7 seasons of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, which felt very nostalgic! I especially love the musical episode. It’s ridiculous
in the best way. I’ve also watched so many cooking shows, house buying shows and interior design shows, in preparation for the dinner parties I will one day be allowed to host again!
Victoria Bassil, Projects Administrator
Chip recipe:
- Get potato (a big one)
- Peel potato & cut off sides to form long, chunky rectangle shaped potato
- Make lots of close together diagonal cuts along the length of the potato, but only half way through
- Flip the potato over and repeat on the other side but horizontally across the width of the potato rectangle – you should now be able to play the potato accordion
- Get more potatoes and repeat until your party is well fed (you can soak your potato accordions in water if you want to get rid of some excess starch, or you can just move on with your life and cook ‘em)
- Impale your potato accordions on skewers, stretch them out a little to show off those slits you made, you can twist them into spirals if you’re feeling fancy, and pop them on a baking tray
- Chop some fresh parsley, crush some garlic and mix it into some butter
- Paint the garlic butter on to your accordion masterpieces
- Roast your garlic potato accordion masterpieces in the oven at 200 degrees for about 40 minutes (or until crispy, golden and delicious), flipping them half way through
- Serve with condiments of your choosing and enjoy!
Here is a link to a fancy food blog for some real instructions with measurements and pictures if you didn’t find this incredibly detailed method particularly useful…
Kate Baiden, Producer
Chip Recipe: Nacho Chips
Ingredients:
- Potato(s)
- Avocado(s)
- Cheese
- Sour Cream/Dip
- Oil
- Garlic Powder
- Oregano
- Tomatoes (optional)
- Spring Onions (optional)
- Lime (optional)
- Tequila
Method:
- Preheat oven to 200c
- Get a potato(s)
- Cut potato(s) into chip-like chunks. No need for peeling (who has the time?)
- Put potato(s) in backing tin or tray, drizzle with oil, pour on some garlic powder and oregano, make sure all potato(s) are covered and put potato(s) in oven for 30 mins or until they look like chips
- Make guacamole; mash an avocado(s). If you fancy you can drizzle in some lime juice, throw in some pieces of spring onions and small bits of chopped tomatoes but that’s all more or less optional
- Grate some cheese
- Get some sour cream (or some of that garlicy-oniony dip you can get in the supermarket)
- Get chips out the oven and place on plate/bowl and sprinkle with cheese and then put in the microwave or 1 minute or until cheese is melty.
- Add guacamole and sour cream/dip
- Shot the tequila and enjoy superior nachos!
Favourite Box Set
I re-watched all of modern-day Doctor Who which made me really appreciate Peter Capaldi who not everyone is a fan of as the Doctor but I do think he bought a nuance to the character that I didn’t appreciated at the time. Also, Jodie Whittaker is just wonderful. I binged Bridgerton, Schitt’s Creek, Queen’s Gambit, I May Destroy You, Normal People and I got seriously into I’m A Celebrity!
Josh Elliott, New Writing Co-ordinator
Chip recipe:
- Don’t hurt yourself with a potato peeler
- Download Uber Eats
- Select restaurant
- Select chips
- Use code APRIL10 For £10 Off