What the bloody hell has my mother done to my potatoes??!

[MadameSzyszkoBohusz]

I SAID I didn't want help. Repeatedly! I told her to go and sit down and leave me to it. But noooooooo, she insisted on at least peeling the potatoes.

Which she then chopped up into the tiniest little pieces imaginable. I can't roast them now! I need big, hefty chunks of potato, for making the sort of roastie that's crisp and golden on the outside and soft and fluffy and succulent in the middle.

2.5 kg of spuds she's decimated. I am so sad for the dinner that might have been.

Oh dear. Do you have any more? Make hers into mash and do another batch.
Otherwise, maybe don't parboil them if they're really small.

They'll be fine, just bung them in!

Mash

Just have small roast potatoes. Or pan fried potatoes. Dont sweat the small stuff. Appeciate it is annoying though!!

My dad makes tiny roast potatoes and they are the best. (About half a salad potato size)

Put a bit of chopped bacon and onion in and give them a short roast, make it look like it was deliberate.

Yes, but my roast potatoes are not "fine." My roast potatoes are magnificent. Poets have written sonnets to them.

Or they should, anyway.

ah well. She was just trying to help

I SAID I DIDN'T WANT HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP!!!!

Gosh how annoying. I would be livid. They’re the main part of our dinner, tis the Irish in me.

I can kinda understand , some of us are a bit controlling with how we think Dinner should be done 😁 . I have found myself giving sidelong looks when DH and sons are helping . You need to move on and just cook them . But it is tiring keeping an eye on what the helpers are doing 😃 .

Smaller roast potatoes are the best. Far nicer than big ones which are often too dry on the inside

Make Greek style roast potatoes with some herbs and olive oil, just as nice as traditional British roast potatoes.

My DB started dicing the carrots for dinner and I was briefly convinced my dad was going to throw the knife at him so something as crucial as a roast potato would’ve ended in all out war

i feel for you OP

Is this the first time she has done roast potatoes? Have you not had her roast potatoes before?

Can I commend you on your username OP and suggest you tootle your bassoon, as it's obviously an emergency! Failing that, dauphinoise?

That is so weird. I thought roast potatoes are standard in Britain. Doesn't she ever cook? What was she trying to make with 2.5 kg of diced potato?

It's so bloody annoying. I want everyone to go away and leave me alone. It's like a military operation and I time it to a t. Everything works perfectly. Why don't people understand this?

How can a roast potato be "too dry"? Its entire purpose in life is to soak up the gravy!

How small? I cut mine to 5cm/2 inches and they were amazing. I wouldn't have wanted them bigger than that.

The smaller the potato, the better they roast!

Chop in some rosemary and make parmentier potatoes maybe. I feel your pain though, good roasties are the best.

How small? We need a picture op. 😂 I’d be annoyed too.

I'm imagining those diced veg bags for soup? This is terrible..... The last thing you want is a new recipe but the only thing I can think to do with diced potatoes is home fries

www.thekitchn.com/how-to-make-diner-style-home-fries-230152

I have never made them at home - only got them in a restaurant...

I'm sorry!

That would make want to scream too OP.

Things being what they are I'd toss the cubes with olive oil, salt and rosemary and roast them that way. Not the same as proper roasties, but nice in their own way.