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Boiled potatoes have no place on a roast dinner!

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BoiledOrRoastPotatoes · 29/12/2024 08:31

My DP was confused as to why I wasn’t cooking some boiled potatoes to go along with the roast potatoes on our Christmas dinner.

Who does this?! He maintains that it is a thing - his DM and DGM did them so he thinks that everyone has both roast potatoes and boiled potatoes on a roast. Google suggests he is wrong.

What do the wise people of MN think?

YABU = yes boiled potatoes and roast potatoes together on a roast dinner are normal.

YANBU = roast potatoes are the king of potatoes on a roast and boring boiled potatoes are taking up space that could be more delicious roasties!

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Poppins21 · 29/12/2024 13:22

Bulletbiting25 · 29/12/2024 13:00

I'm with you on proper sweetcorn but do allow baby sweetcorn. Is that acceptable? 🧐🙂

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Not when I am cooking roast dinner 😂 love me baby sweetcorn in a stir fry but again not with gravy

thiswaypleasethankyou · 29/12/2024 13:22

Poppins21 · 29/12/2024 13:18

Who is having lasagna with chips?

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Me! Lasagne, chips and peas, with loads of bechamel to squidge the chips into. Bloody lovely.

thiswaypleasethankyou · 29/12/2024 13:21

My nana used to do this, and she'd be over 100 if she was still alive today. Never known anyone else to.

Poppins21 · 29/12/2024 13:20

adultingskills · 29/12/2024 13:07

Why can't you have sweetcorn with a roast? I love chicken and sweetcorn

I am one of the anti sweetcorn brigade 😂 the thought of sweetcorn with gravy turns my stomach. I don’t get it. I love sweetcorn with BBQ or Mexican meal but not gravy.

Poppins21 · 29/12/2024 13:18

RampantIvy · 29/12/2024 12:32

I agree with you, but it has been clarified upthread that when feeding the 5,000 there isn't enough room in the oven for enough roasties.

We only ever do one type of potato because we can make enough. It's the same with lasagne. my portions are sufficient that no-one would want any chips as well.

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Who is having lasagna with chips?

EnthENd · 29/12/2024 13:16

Christmas dinner traditionally has two kinds of potatoes in my book. I don’t know why, it just does. Maybe because if you have a big group most ovens won’t fit enough roasters in?

I normally do roast and steamed, roast and mash would be OK too. I never boil spuds or any other veg though, always steam, it tastes better.

allmylifelong · 29/12/2024 13:15

We do mash and roast potatoes, but I’m really not a big fan of boiled.

JetskiSkyJumper · 29/12/2024 13:13

If I could be bothered I'd have roast, mash and boiled (well, steamed). Love my tatties.

adultingskills · 29/12/2024 13:07

Why can't you have sweetcorn with a roast? I love chicken and sweetcorn

chattyness · 29/12/2024 13:04

Only roasties for us, I don't want ordinary spuds with my roast dinner, my parents always did boiled and roast but we would only be allocated one roasty each 😥

Bulletbiting25 · 29/12/2024 13:00

Poppins21 · 29/12/2024 08:34

Sweetcorn has no place on a roast dinner plate 😂

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I'm with you on proper sweetcorn but do allow baby sweetcorn. Is that acceptable? 🧐🙂

Katy232425 · 29/12/2024 12:54

My granny used to do roasted, boiled and croquette potatoes for Christmas dinner. Not sure if that’s a regional thing, she was Scottish. I’ve never heard of potato croquettes on a Christmas dinner here in southern England! Or maybe it’s a generation thing.

She also did three kinds of meat, half a dozen vegetables, two kinds of stuffing and various canned fruits and sauces for Christmas dinner. She was a stressed out mess over Christmas Day and I swore I was doing things differently - I do one meat, roast potatoes, one stuffing, two or three veg and that is it. I’m much happier by Boxing Day than she was and I wouldn’t entertain suggestions of multiple types of potato.

RampantIvy · 29/12/2024 12:32

TheKeatingFive · 29/12/2024 12:25

I never understand the need for any kind of second potato. Just make more roasties 🤷‍♀️

I agree with you, but it has been clarified upthread that when feeding the 5,000 there isn't enough room in the oven for enough roasties.

We only ever do one type of potato because we can make enough. It's the same with lasagne. my portions are sufficient that no-one would want any chips as well.

TheKeatingFive · 29/12/2024 12:25

I never understand the need for any kind of second potato. Just make more roasties 🤷‍♀️

RampantIvy · 29/12/2024 12:22

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 29/12/2024 11:46

I find it hard to understand how people manage so many different veg with Christmas dinner. Mash, cauliflower cheese (which IMO should always be made last minute for non-mushy cauliflower) never mind boiled potatoes, too. Even if I wanted to, it’d be a major faff and hassle, with just 4 burners on the hob.

DD cooked. Our main was mushroom pithiviers. For vegetables we had:

Roast parsnips
Roast carrots
Roast sprouts with chestnuts
Mashed swede
Red cabbage

Roast potatoes

Ilovecakey · 29/12/2024 11:53

Aa for potatoes I always do mash and roast potatoes

Ilovecakey · 29/12/2024 11:52

Livinginadream · 29/12/2024 08:32

Does he also want sweet corn and broccoli?

I don't have sweetcorn but what's wrong with broccoli? I assume most people have broccoli on their Christmas dinner as its one of the veg that was 8p in the supermarkets in the run up to Christmas

Cynic17 · 29/12/2024 11:47

I don't particularly like "roast dinners", and never cook them, but when I was a child it was one roast potato each and the rest were boiled.
(But that was in the poverty-struck 1970s 🤣).

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 29/12/2024 11:46

I find it hard to understand how people manage so many different veg with Christmas dinner. Mash, cauliflower cheese (which IMO should always be made last minute for non-mushy cauliflower) never mind boiled potatoes, too. Even if I wanted to, it’d be a major faff and hassle, with just 4 burners on the hob.

Seeline · 29/12/2024 11:41

I do mash and roast for Christmas, but normally just roasties.

When I was a child, and veggies were seasonal rather than being flown from all over the world we had 'new' potatoes boiled in the summer with our roast. I remember the excitement when the old potatoes came back for winter and we had roasted potatoes again. No one thought of roasting baby potatoes in those days.

Enko · 29/12/2024 11:40

If he wants them why not? A roast to me is about togetherness and comfort. If his comfort is a couple of boiled Spuds I'm OK with that.

BogRollBOGOF · 29/12/2024 11:38

Plain boiled potatoes are very school dinners.

Mash and roasties for a roast dinner.

The worst roast I had had tough pork (which turned out to be turkey), lots of dry pre-made roasties and some overcooked veg. No sauces. No gravy. There was some ketchup on the table for the toddler so I ended up using that to make it chewable.

MyBigFatGreekSalad · 29/12/2024 11:34

Ohmych · 29/12/2024 08:59

Dp insists on having boiled potatoes with Christmas dinner. He just has them on his plate no one else is weird enough to join him. He also has fried egg on top of pizza so make of that what you like.

LTB.

Zanatdy · 29/12/2024 11:06

Years ago my mum used to do some boiled potatoes, as in peeled potatoes, just boiled (not new potatoes).

Ohnonotmeagain · 29/12/2024 11:05

TooManyChristmasCards · 29/12/2024 10:26

Does it matter? Have what you like.

If he wants them to figure on the menu but stay uneaten, he's ridiculous.
If he fancies boiled potatoes, then he can make himself boiled potatoes.

This.

roasted dinner is meat and whatever sides you prefer. There should be no rules.

however whoever is cooking gets to choose. If you want something else, you cook.

my only “rule” it is can’t be something that will go to waste if uneaten. So anything potato based is a go as leftovers can be saved for another day, or remade into something else.