Can we have a love of potatoes thread please.

I've got a very old (18th century) recipe for potato pudding and I'm always tempted to try it.

Try mash with mashed parsnip, a couple of garlic cloves and grated ginger.

Another favourite of mine is to boil some new / salad potatoes.

Once cool enough to handle gently part crush with a fork and roast in oil (with or without herbs). If you are entertaining then you can do the boil and crush head of time.

BTW did anyone watch the apprentice? How can you fail to cook triple fried chips? And why did no one taste a chip before sending them out?

Oh my days. I haven't had a fritter roll for years but I loved them! With lots of vinegar.

My absolute favourite snack is mashed potatoes on toast or in a sandwich. With MASSES of butter. DH rarely eats potatoes so I always cook double so I have plenty for a sandwich.

Potatoes Lyonnaise
Rosti
Hash browns
Croquettes potatoes
Parmentia Potatoes
Mixed Mash (with sweet potato and swede)

food of the gods.

God I love potatoes... 😍

And do not let us forget that Mr Collins ( Pride and Prejudice) said,
".....what excellent boiled potatoes! Many years since I've had such an exemplary vegetable"

Potatoes are the best. My current favourite which is a bit of a faff - bake a spud (microwave) - chop it into evenly sized wedges or chunks - toss with seasoning and a spray of oil, air fry, jiggling in the middle, for about 18 minutes on er, 200.

Loads of crispy edges, soft delicious potato. I use Butter Gold or Butterbell for this, they don't need any further anything, so sweet and moist and buttery as they are.

My dinner last night was a massive bowl of champ, heavy with scallions and loaded with butter. It's my comfort food. In the part of the country where I grew up, this dish was called "poundies" -because you pound the spuds, I suppose. Guinness was known as "liquid poundies."

Saag aloo is delicious-I make it a lot. This is an incredibly simple version. Brown 2 sliced onions with a couple of dried red chillis and 2 teaspoons of cumin seeds. Add a tin of tomatoes,or some chopped up fresh ones, a half tsp of tumeric, 2 tsp each coriander, garam masala and the right amount for you of your favorite chilli powder-I use 2 tsp of Kashmiri. Two big potatoes, peeled and cubed. Cook slowly covered making sure it doesn’t dry out until the potatoes are soft. Add two bags of baby spinach, chopped. Give it a couple of minutes to wilt. Serve with flat breads, lots of chopped coriander, yogurt and crispy onions if you have any. Or just breads. Or just on its own.. Perfect comfort food. Freezes well. We call it Irish dal…..

Maris Piper's are so versatile. Used to buy M and S new and baby potatoes but have back to Mp's. Love them and they last at least 7 days.

I used to make cheese and potato pie in my younger days, boiled mash mixed with butter milk cheese topped with more cheese and tomato and then grilled. Very nice and filling.

sounds like a dish i make, but i bake the potatoes, scoop out the flesh - do all the faffing - then bake it in the skins.
Yum.

DH has gone out for the day. He just wrote to me that there is a tupperware box of cooked potatoes in the fridge that need eating...

Leftover creamy mash. To each 4oz approx (I do it by eye), 1 egg, separated. Beat the yolks into the mash, adding a little milk if necessary to obtain a soft consistency. Add finely grated strong hard cheese-about 2 tbsps per egg used, and season with salt/garlic salt and pepper. Fold in the egg whites, stiffly whipped, as for a soufflé. Put into a well-buttered oven dish, pattern the top with a fork and dust with grated Parmesan (cheddar stops it rising). Bake at Mark 7 until risen and browned.

I wasn’t that fussed about mash till I tried some a foodie landlord of mine made and it was like a revelation. Creamy, tasted of potatoes just gorgeous. I’ve never been able to successfully replicate it.

my roasties are the best.

in Peru they have a huge variety of potatoes….all quite starchy and more akin to how potatoes would have been when they first arrived in Europe. Couldn’t get on with them at all.

I love potatoes too. I can eat sooo many. Too much bread and I feel bloated. Pasta is lovely, but needs something with it. As does rice. But potatoes I can eat on their own. I could eat boiled potatoes with just a bit of salt as my whole meal. Like a pp, I’m from NI and ate a LOT of boiled potatoes growing up. But I absolutely love them. And mash, champ, chips, roast potatoes, baked potatoes. Nothing too fancy mind😆

You could do all those posh potato dishes yourself. Mash at £7.50? No way!

If you only had boiled potatoes, I can understand that. Try potatoes cooked in different ways and I bet you’d love them now!

Every time I go to an expensive restaurant I order an extra potato side so I can bring them home in a doggy bag.

I could live on potatoes ( and chocolate)

I have bought red potatoes for Sunday Roast. Very happy.

Proper New Potato variety, fresh from the ground, 15min simmer, with butter.😎

I drive 45 mins to buy 20k sacks of potatoes. Totally seasonal, unwashed and bloody lovely! I make homemade chips with them, mash and they roast beautifully.

i also buy my fruit and vegetables from the outlet and they are grown locally. They smell of veg and soil.

Yum yum