tatties

Scotland's "traditional meal of mince and tatties" is perfectly safe.

Minced euromyth Richard 2006

All the European houses seem to have very deep verandas, large, lofty rooms, punkahs everywhere, windows without glass, brick floors, and jalousies and "tatties" (blinds made of grass or finely-split bamboo) to keep out the light and the flies.

The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither Isabella Lucy 1883

Bit of brown sauce, some neeps and tatties, and haggis can be very tasty.

Culinary Menace | My[confined]Space 2009

Next year I am going to confine my plants to the back garden, well away from any nasty germy tatties.

Jean's Knitting Jean 2009

Enough with the cute, get with the programme and develop libidos and a taste for neeps and tatties.

Everything will be better next year! 2011

We relished our razor clams ( "spoots" in Scottish dialect) from Arisaig, cooked with the Spanish touch of chorizo; hand-dived Orkney scallops; roasted bone marrow with Devon snails and generously scattered Perthshire girolles; an unrecognizable circle of boned and rolled pig's head accompanied by roasted langoustine from Anstruther and a crunchy salad of shredded pig's ear; and the brilliantly conceived disk of foie-gras-cum-haggis, neeps and tatties.

From Ships to Michelin Stars Paul Levy 2010

The vegetables were almost raw, the tatties still had their skins on and Duncan insisted on draining the curly kale water into a mug, adding a good pinch of pepper and drinking it.

A Small Death in the Great Glen A. D. Scott 2010

Stones needed to be lifted after the spring plowing, ditches cleared, walls mended, the raspberries picked, the tatties harvested.

A Small Death in the Great Glen A. D. Scott 2010

Joanne, peeling tatties for supper, was half listening in.

A Small Death in the Great Glen A. D. Scott 2010

Except by a band of wet, hungry, weary men who would gladly trade their mortal souls for a bowl of hot neeps and tatties and an invitation to bed down in your stable for the night.

The Devil Wears Plaid Teresa Medeiros 2010