FabSwingers.com forum: What’s your definition of ‘stovies’?

By *ife2010 OP Couple
1 week ago

Kirkcaldy

Left over mince and potatoes or corn beef?

We always had it on a Tuesday after mince the night before. The Mrs says that corn beef is the real deal!

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By *awty_MissDynomiteNo1Woman
1 week ago

No idea, I'm lost. Damn Sat nav!

Left over mince and potatoes or corn beef?

We always had it on a Tuesday after mince the night before. The Mrs says that corn beef is the real deal!"
square sausages

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By *ockandjadeCouple
1 week ago

glasgow

Square sausage

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By *idnightMischief01Man
1 week ago

Arbroath

Corned beef all the way!!!

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By *andy_FraserTV/TS
1 week ago

Edinburgh

My mum always made it with corned beef, my last girlfriend preferred it with sausages, and that's how I've been making it for years now.

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By *dglasgow30TV/TS
1 week ago

glasgow

I feel posh now lol, left over pork pot roast from Sunday with tatties n onions cooked in the pot roast fat, square sausage added if not much roast left.

Corn beef was used for corn beef hash or lunch sandwiches

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By *ullofmysteryWoman
1 week ago

aberdeen

Left over roast beef, tatties and onions 😂

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By *eniescot86Man
1 week ago

Bathgate

Tatties, sausages and corned beef.

Is it an East/West thing?

In the mood for stovies now and happy to meet for stovies only if yer cookin'

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By *mazon750Couple
1 week ago

Perth

"Left over roast beef, tatties and onions 😂"

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By *RandMRSM3037Couple
1 week ago

paisley

link and square sausage in gravy, with totties and onion all in the one pot!

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By *oShrinkingVioletWoman
1 week ago

the land of unicorns and fairytales

Any leftover beef products with potatoes and onions

Roast beef, stewing steak, beef links, beef slice, beef mince

Some folk add carrots as well I don’t add anything except what’s leftover in freezer bags

Pork sausages !! Meh get a grip

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By *oShrinkingVioletWoman
1 week ago

the land of unicorns and fairytales

"My mum always made it with corned beef, my last girlfriend preferred it with sausages, and that's how I've been making it for years now."

For me corned beef is corn beef hash not stovies

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By *dglasgow30TV/TS
1 week ago

glasgow

"link and square sausage in gravy, with totties and onion all in the one pot! "

Isn't that just a sausage casserole with tatties

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By *igjohn891Man
1 week ago

turra

"Left over roast beef, tatties and onions 😂"

100% roast beef now of this corn beef stuff

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By *inkyjijoMan
7 days ago

Angus

That is the only way, corned beef is corn beef hash lol. In Ayrshire a lot of places used square sausage...was ok like

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By *om1873Man
7 days ago

Glasgow

Mince and tatties is stovies to me ,,square sausage is steamed sausage in oor hoose

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By *amabamMan
7 days ago

Dalkeith

You can't have stories with corn beef. That is corn beaf hash. Square tatties onions and tatties is the stories I like. But any meat wit it is OK and some like gravy with it which is not stories either.

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By *lder budweiserMan
7 days ago

Stirlingshire

Square sausage, onions and tatties

No gravy, carrots or corned beef

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By *imMcSilverMan
7 days ago

By the Seaside

Square sausage, tatties and onion, a bit of salt and a good amount of white pepper. Absolutely nothing else and certainly nothing from Fray Bentos

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By *rgoodnbadMan
7 days ago

greenock

Lorne sausage, pork links, potatoes, carrots and neeps. Made in a thick gravy.

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By *dible_KinkCouple
7 days ago

Aberdeen

"Left over roast beef, tatties and onions 😂

100% roast beef now of this corn beef stuff "

It's non negotiable- left over roast beef with tatties and onions. Best served with oat cakes and beetroot.

Corned beef hash is exactly that - corned beef with tatties.

Anything else is something different allogether.

Simple.

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By *ergie59Man
7 days ago

Aberdeenshire

"Left over roast beef, tatties and onions 😂

100% roast beef now of this corn beef stuff

It's non negotiable- left over roast beef with tatties and onions. Best served with oat cakes and beetroot.

Corned beef hash is exactly that - corned beef with tatties.

Anything else is something different allogether.

Simple."

This is correct.

I’ve pals in the west coast that hadn’t heard of Stovies and wonder if it originated from the North East of Scotland?

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By *pencer75Man
7 days ago

Stirlingshire

"Lorne sausage, pork links, potatoes, carrots and neeps. Made in a thick gravy. "

That's a casserole

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By *iged40Man
7 days ago

Dunfermline

Corned beef with Chucky tatties

Anything else is mince and tatties or sausage and mash

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By *illi3736Woman
7 days ago

Glasgow

"Left over roast beef, tatties and onions 😂"

This is it for me, carrots sliced as well and all cooked low and slow. As for corned beef ...no way,that as previously mentioned is for sandwiches or corned beef hash

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By *coobyABCMan
7 days ago

Aberdeen

"Left over roast beef, tatties and onions 😂"

This 100%

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By *angbang_slutCouple
7 days ago

Glasgow

My mum's recipe, she was from Fife as a bairn, then Edinburgh as a grown up.

Chopped onions fried/browned in lard in the bottom of a big pot, then chopped tatties and meat added (sausages, mince, whatever was left overs) a bit of salt and pepper and water added until it covered the mixture. Then simmered for a long time, until the tatties were loose, sloppy and breaking apart. Then beef gravy granules added to add taste and give thickness to the stirred sloppy blend, and stirred a good bit to slightly break the tatties.

Served in a bowl with a couple of slices of buttered bread on the side. Heaven!

My own veggie adaptation. Vegetable oil instead of lard, Linda McCartney sausages in with the tatties, and onion gravy granules added. Pretty close approximation and no animals were harmed in the making of this movie!

"Anyone for sloppy seconds?"

With corned beef it was always tatties boiled and mashed with the tinned corned beef. Not sloppy, and more akin to mashed tatties, but with a bit of protein in it. And nothing like the delicious flavour and texture of actual stovies.

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By *i guy 4 bi cplsMan
7 days ago

Near Kirkcaldy

My granny always said stovies were made with whatever was left over put into a big pot. No food was wasted in her day or when I was a bairn.

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By *eroLondonMan
7 days ago

Mayfair

I've had to Google™ "stovies". 🙂

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By *otterabzMan
6 days ago

Ellon

"Left over roast beef, tatties and onions 😂

100% roast beef now of this corn beef stuff

It's non negotiable- left over roast beef with tatties and onions. Best served with oat cakes and beetroot.

Corned beef hash is exactly that - corned beef with tatties.

Anything else is something different allogether.

Simple."

Exactly this. Although apparently it’s also a thing locally to make a well in the middle and fill it with milk

Never tried that, I’ll keep my milk to a glass please

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By *dglasgow30TV/TS
5 days ago

glasgow

"My granny always said stovies were made with whatever was left over put into a big pot. No food was wasted in her day or when I was a bairn."

So that's like a Irish stew then

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By *ollyRoxxxWoman
5 days ago

Wishaw

What is this 'leftover roast beef' people speak of? 🤣🤣 too many in ma hoose for leftovers.

The ex makes stovies with square slice. One of only 2 things I miss about him. 🤣🤣🤣

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By *ergie59Man
5 days ago

Aberdeenshire

In many bars in the north east of Scotland, stovies were served free at 9pm as they sobered everyone up and folk could drink more.

Stovies are beef, onions and tatties and of a stodgy consistency, they are suitable for a colder climate, different from the thinner Irish stew or American corn beef hash.

Anything else isn’t stovies.

Square, or Lorne Sausage is originally west coast, but now popular in the north east.

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By *coobyABCMan
5 days ago

Aberdeen

"What is this 'leftover roast beef' people speak of? 🤣🤣 too many in ma hoose for leftovers.

The ex makes stovies with square slice. One of only 2 things I miss about him. 🤣🤣🤣"

Whats the other 🫣

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By *idemyfaceMan
4 days ago

kilmarnock

Its a simple meal carrots potatos onions if you like but no for me salt pepper stock boil for half hour add some slice reduce heat and simmer for an hour or till the potatos break up and thicken the stock mix regularly so it doesnt stick and burn no hard to make and tasty as

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By *lba The ScotMan
4 days ago

Midlothian

Sacrilege.

I buy a beef joint specifically to make stovies.

I can't believe the amount of peeps using sliced sausage or corned beef ffs!

I also add a few slices of haggis in it.

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By *ikosMan
4 days ago

Dundee

It’s a regional thing how they are made, I like them all lol

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By *nfirelivewireMan
3 days ago

Dundee

Got to have Heinz beans with them

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By *luebell888Woman
3 days ago

Glasgowish

They smell lovely, but look like something my dog does when he is unwell.

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By *eiaorganaWoman
3 days ago

Dundee

Potatoes, corned beef, onions and a little gravy

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By *rBlueEyes35Man
3 days ago

Alloa

Square sausage, potato and onion.. made thick enough to stand yer spoon in it and then crusty buttered bread to scoop it up with

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By *r Mojo RisinMan
3 days ago

Aberdeen

Left over silverside beef. Tatties,neep and carrot

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By *sWyldWoman
3 days ago

Edinburgh

Link sausages, potatoes and onions. All boiled in one pot. Mashed together a little before the water evaporates.

Serve with bit of ketchup because I'm not a purist!

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