zucchini (courgette?) Mostly, yes. But I've seen them sold as zucchini too - especially if they are the yellow ones.
yellow squash (marrow?) No. Usually a marrow is like a giant green courgette with a harder skin. Yellow sqaush is called yellow squash.
tatties & neeps (mashed potatoes and turnips) Traditional recipes refer to these, but in seven years of living in Scotland (Renfrewshire) I only ever heard the word "neeps" used in relation to Burns' night suppers. In School I heard potatoes called "totties" (with the double "t" pronounced as a glottal stop), but "neeps" are swedes or rutabaga, which the people in my area of Scotland called "turnips". (What I call turnips I think they called "white turnips".) Traditionally on Burns' Night, they are served separately from the potatoes, and not usually mashed, though the potatoes are mashed, or "bashed". I think that mashing swedes is more of an English habit, and I've usually seen them here mashed together with carrots.
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Date: 2006-08-29 10:08 am (UTC)Mostly, yes. But I've seen them sold as zucchini too - especially if they are the yellow ones.
yellow squash (marrow?)
No. Usually a marrow is like a giant green courgette with a harder skin.
Yellow sqaush is called yellow squash.
tatties & neeps (mashed potatoes and turnips)
Traditional recipes refer to these, but in seven years of living in Scotland (Renfrewshire) I only ever heard the word "neeps" used in relation to Burns' night suppers.
In School I heard potatoes called "totties" (with the double "t" pronounced as a glottal stop), but "neeps" are swedes or rutabaga, which the people in my area of Scotland called "turnips".
(What I call turnips I think they called "white turnips".)
Traditionally on Burns' Night, they are served separately from the potatoes, and not usually mashed, though the potatoes are mashed, or "bashed".
I think that mashing swedes is more of an English habit, and I've usually seen them here mashed together with carrots.