Pasta, rice or potatoes

[Angelina82]

If you could only chose one for the rest of your lives which would it be? Pasta for me all day long 😋

Potatoes. Rice second. Pasta is a distant third.

I love pasta so much but it would probably have to be potatoes as can do so many different things with it - mash, chips, wedges, roasts, boiled, dauphinois, potato cakes, fondants, baked potato, loaded skins etc.
Rice is nice too but I only ever have it with curry or chilli

Pasta.

No contest. Can’t imagine a week without it, never mind a lifetime. Bolognese, puttanesca, carbonara, Caci e Pepe, tortellini, cannelloni, lasagna, pesto, linguine al fredo, penne with blue cheese and broccoli, macaroni and cheese, marinated pasta salad, ramen, stir fry, chicken noodle soup when you’re poorly...

Rice next because risotto

Spuds last but I would miss fish pie.

There was rice and pasta in Henry VIII’s court. It was the lack of potatoes that did for them

Potatoes because I 1000% couldn't live without chips, all the other forms of potato would just be a perk :)

If I couldn't have ketchup or mayo too I'd need to rethink.

@sashh

Potatoes. A life without roasties, mash, chips, crisps, potato salad, jacket potatoes and potato vodka? WHAT KIND OF LIFE WOULD THAT BE?!

The middle ages.

Henry VIII never ate a potato. They were not known in England (sorry Scotland I don't know when they were introduced to you).

I think that puts me off time travel even more than the lack of antibiotics and contraception would do!

Potatoes

@unmarkedbythat

Well if you could time travel can you travel in space? You could bring potatoes back from south America and introduce them to Europe.

There was rice and pasta in Henry VIII’s court.

There was?!!!

If I couldn't have ketchup or mayo too I'd need to rethink.

You can have all the condiments you desire. And now I want hot salty chippy chips with mayo......for breakfast. 😭

But with no tomatoes what did the Tudor's eat with their pasta???? His (first) wife was Spanish so I suspect there was lots of delicious rice dishes.

I think if you were to ask this question in other parts of the world then rice would win. I'm sure it's just as versatile as potatoes, it's just in Europe potatoes are such an important part of our diet so more of us are aware of the different options. Pasta is never going to win because it's already a processed product so it's slightly unfair, it can't compete.

Potato's but that's because it's the one food that KNOW never flares up my ibs and actually helps it calm down

I have seen a recipe from the middle ages for lasagne. It was cooked in stock and then layered with cheese and spice.

That is really interesting @SallySeven. I would love to see that recipe. Is it online somewhere?

[quote sashh]@unmarkedbythat

Well if you could time travel can you travel in space? You could bring potatoes back from south America and introduce them to Europe.[/quote]
Oh now there's an idea. I'll change the course of history by cheering Henry up with chips and ketchup whilst cunningly managing to avoid being burned as a witch. Did Tudors know about chocolate? Because if not I'm going to need to grab some of that too.

[quote sashh]@unmarkedbythat

Well if you could time travel can you travel in space? You could bring potatoes back from south America and introduce them to Europe.[/quote]
If I could time travel, I wouldn't bother with the extra Air Miles just for a shopping trip. I'd bring them back from Sainsbury's.

I have it in a book The Medieval Cookbook by Maggie Smith.

Reference given in the bibliography is "Curye on Inglysch. Five MS collections of fourteenth/fifteenth century recipes, edited by Constance B Hieatt & Sharon Butler. OUP 1985.

The Forme of Cury is a collection of recipes dating from 1390 from Richard II’s head cook.

britishfoodhistory.com/2018/08/10/favourite-cook-books-no-3-the-forme-of-cury-part-i/

’They even made pasta, which was most often rolled out thinly, cut into diamonds and dried. The pasta would be layered up with cooked mincemeat and a cheese sauce: in other words, a mediaeval English lasagne!’

Thanks. Off for a read......

Check out A Taste Of History on YouTube if you want to quickly dip into some of those recipes. He's amazing, really easy to watch.

It would probably be pasta although it's hard to choose with potatoes but they make my sugars spike more than pasta so had to do without them completely when I was pregnant and that was ok.

I chose pasta... but if bread was in there it would be bread. The best carb!

Freshly baked, quality bread is lovely.