What type of potatoes would you serve with this meal?

[RainDancer]

I've got friends coming for lunch tomorrow and I'm doing a beef and mushroom pie and a cheese, leek and potato pie. I'm currently thinking of doing mash and/or garlic roast new potatoes with broccoli/ cauli and peas. What potatoes would you serve with it? Worried that there is no sauce with the cheese pie so it might be a bit dry or too potatoey!

[ThomasRichard]

If the cheese pie isn’t runny then i’d go with the roast potatoes and a salad.

[BluebellTheDonkey]

I usually do new potatoes with a pie. You can put some butter in them to add a bit of moisture.

[RainDancer]

Actually I think you're right. Just plain boiled new pots would be best wouldn't they? With a bit of butter added. Less work too! Thanks!

[BluebellTheDonkey]

Yum. Enjoy!

[Clutterbugsmum]

I wouldn't serve any potatoes, just lots steamed veg.

And that's not an anti carb crusade it's more I find we as family do not need/eat potatoes with Pie.

[Launderetta]

Garlicky, olive oil-y, new potatoes & salad.
Tomato salsa could be an option for moisture as it goes with the veg & suits either pie too.
Enjoy your lovely meal together

[Bluntness100]

I'd go against the grain and do cheesy mash or just mash. But I can't stand boiled potatoes so it would all seem a little dry to me even if I did.

[HTKB]

Roast potatoes and a SALAD?? Together??

WTF have i just read?

[HTKB]

Oh, and do dauphinoise OP.

[crazycatgal]

Mash or roast potatoes. I don't really like plain boiled potatoes.

[RainDancer]

No potato at all with pie Clutterbug?! There definitely has to be potato in this house!

[Theimpossiblegirl]

Mash, veg and gravy with pie.
You can do a mixed root or sweet/normal potatoes and steamed veg.
Not salad, it's pie not quiche.

[Wh0KnowsWhereTheT1meG0es]

Mash here. I don’t like boiled especially not with butter or oil. I think roast, dauphinoise etc would be too rich with the pies. Plus lots of steamed green veg.

[BuzzKillington]

We wouldn't eat pie with potatoes either. Too stodgy imo.

Just lots of veg and maybe celeriac mash.

We rarely eat potatoes in this house.

[RainDancer]

I love a dauphinoise but I think it might be too rich for lunch. Defo no salad with pie here, although salad would be nice with the cheese pie. I would choose buttery mash every time, but my 5 year old has decided she doesn't like mash (outrage). Hence the reason I was going to do 2 different types of potato - but I think I will just go with nice buttery new pots now after your input.

[DunkandEgg]

I'd like mash. Spring onion mash, mustard mash, or colcannon - something like that.

As an aside, where can I buy large waxy potatoes? I can't seem to find them in supermarkets.

[TwitterQueen1]

I don't really understand why people do potatoes with a pie - I never do. However, I realise I'm in the minority here. You don't mention gravy though, which is the real cause for concern here. Please tell me you are doing gravy?

[Theimpossiblegirl]

Ooh colcannon would be nice.

[Snooks1971]

We are all into saucey condiments in this house and the more the better! Sounds too dry for me - do what I do:
Decant jar mayonnaise into a bowl and mix with: slug of olive oil, chopped/fried garlic (hells bells I use frozen garlic ) and any herbs. Black pepper and salt.
It looks and tastes the biz and does the same job description as gravy. Enjoy tomorrow OP!

[RainDancer]

Twitter, the beef pie has lots of gravy of its own - just has a puff pastry top - so no need to do separate gravy. No gravy for the cheese pie people, although chips, cheese and onion pie and gravy from the chippy used to be my mother's favourite

[RainDancer]

Yes colcannon would be lovely, but same problem with the fussy 5 year old. If I put green stuff in it she definitely won't eat it!

[Bluntness100]

Actually garlicky buttery mash might work,,,

[TwitterQueen1]

Phew! That's OK then OP . I might do an onion sauce as a kind of half-way measure, which would go with both the beef and cheese pies.

I have also been known to do bread sauce as an accompaniment because we all love it in this household. But I realise this is probably weird.

New pots do sound lovely though.

[Theimpossiblegirl]

Just don't give potato to the 5 year old.

[RainDancer]

Actually the 5 year old would probably be down with no potato so not sure why I'm tailoring the whole meal around her but I'm a Northerner and I just feel everyone should eat potato! I'd love a bit of bread sauce but everyone else would think I'd lost it. Never made an onion sauce though? Is that like a roux with onions and stock?