Anyone else out there know what a chip buttie is? If not ... let me tell you about it. It's a weekly meal at our house. I remember the first time my husband made them for me. We were dating and I was over at his place and he asked if I wanted a chip buttie. I was like -- suuuuure! I'll try it. (For those of you who don't know ... my husband is English. Apparently chip butties are a common thing there). First ... you make french fries. And for Steve, they have to be made from scratch french fries. So we peel our potatoes, cut them with our Pampered Chef Crinkle Cutter and then pop them into our deep fryer. Takes about 8 minutes and the nice hot french fries are ready. Next step .... take your bread of choice (regular bread, sub sandwich bread, etc) and slather with butter or if you're Steve, London Pub Sauce (we literally have atleast 8 bottles of this in the cupboard at all times. Steve puts it on everything.). Then you put the french fries inside the bread. That's a chip buttie.
I know it doesn't sound all that appetizing ... but surprisingly enough ... it does taste pretty good. Steve laughs at me beacuse my chip butties are always put together so precisely with all my french fries lined up in a neat row on the bread -- whereas he just shoves them in.
The "butties" don't stop here. Steve also likes Bacon Butties (yes, you've got it -- bacon inside of bread slathered with London Pub Sauce). Basically he likes Anything Butties. If we're having fish, beans and cauliflower .... it all ends up in a sandwich. It's kind of bizarre.
I'm one of those people who eats everything one at a time. I eat all my fish. Then I eat the beans. Then I eat the cauliflower. The only foods I mix up on a regular basis are corn and beans. I got that habit from my grandfather -- they taste much better mixed together :)
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Mmm, cauliflower sandwich. The British are weird... and oh my god, you are Martha Stewart. You have the gorgeous house in the woods, a Pampered Chef Crinkle Cutter, a deep fryer, you make maple pumpkin cheesecake, you make french fries FROM SCRATCH... can I move in? The extent of my dinner skills are spaghetti. And that's with canned sauce. I can't even make hamburgers unless they're already in patty form.
I also put scented air in my tires ... that way if we have a flat tire -- the air will smell nice and pleasant as I'm changing the tire with my pink tool set. :wink:
Okay, that's more crazy-criminal Martha than cool-crafty Martha... :tongue:
A buttie, actually spelt butte is an old way of transporting cargo up and down the old canals in England. A barge would tow two cargo vessels named buttes behind.