To serve boiled potatoes

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Much stroppiness and comments and moaning because when asked what's for dinner and told them they asked would it be nice potatoes or boiled... Nice I said but they were boiled so apparantly I lied.. Surely everyone eats boiled potatoes for dinner in UK sometimes aren't they an English staple part of our traditional diet for context I didn't serve just boiled spuds I served with peas carrots and salmon encroute (shop bought but nice) are they just spoilt? We had pasta yesterday beautiful tapas day before Indian night before fresh fish etc etc it's not like they have to eat it every day I think they are too used to lovely exotic food and are just being ungrateful shits. Or are boiled potatoes actually that bad?

I looked it up, here they're called (lit. trans) goat horn potatoes Creamy flesh, elongated shape, hard to peel. The oldest potatoe sort, some websites claim they've been around since the Victorian age. I'll ask a farmer in the neighbourhood, he might know more Thanks, Ddot!

Love boiled potatoes... and if you have leftovers you could keep them for the next day, and make a potato salad or shallow fry them...

When in season, marks and Spencer sell pink fur apple.

As long as those fresh ones don't look like that old toy, Mr. Potatoehead

That's Potatohead to you.

(There was something on the news that he/it is going gender neutral.)

I used to get them every night growing up too! So boring. Cant face them now. Yanbu though, sounds like you cook lovely food for your family.

My son now aged 23 years was lactose intolerant as baby and also in the time when there was nothing available to replace normal cows milk and other dairy products .He grew up on potatoes and I was so glad to have them to fill him up as he was a very hungry boy. He still loves potatoes in every form especially just steamed with butter and salt .But then he is half Irish.

I'd recommend the new Cyprus potatoes on the shops at present.

I'm desperate to buy some potatoes 🥔 now.

Jersey Royals will be in the shops soon - now they are good boiled!

Its not a crime but honestly I havent had boiled peeled potatoes since I left home over 20 years ago.
It was a staple of my childhood, they came with almost every meal , but I was never particularly keen on them.
I replaced them with lovely baby potatoes served with butter.
However depending on who is moaning they can just go and cook dinner themselves if they dont like it.

Good potato variety is even tasty on its own.

I agree, but IMO it has to be new potatoes or salad potatoes. I dislike the floury texture of boiled old potatoes. I much prefer them as mash.

God this has given me memories (nightmares) of childhood meals consisting of tough dry pork chops that gave your jaws a workout that took a week to recover from, boiled potatoes that somehow leached all moisture from your mouth, and heavily overcooked green beans.

Bleeuuuurgh

Its not a crime but honestly I havent had boiled peeled potatoes since I left home over 20 years ago.

Me too.

It sounds like you cook lovely food for your family and that they take it for granted; and complain when they don't get exactly what they want. Have they been pampered?

I r never cooked boiled potatoes as an adult. The memories of them as a child mean my kids have escaped them. Horrid, dull things. Make every dinner, However lovely the rest of it may be, look so unappetising.

Flashback of sausages, boiled potatoes and sweetcorn as a child. Back when sausages contained shit loads of gristle.🤢

I didn’t eat boiled potatoes before being a mother. Now they’re a saving grace. I like them with salt, pepper and mayonnaise.

I bet you wish you'd never started this, OP!

I allowed grandchildren to help. I boiled and drained the potatoes, then asked them to pour on garlic oil and sprinkle Italian herbs on top. They could taste a bit and sprinkle a bit more oil / herbs on until they liked the taste. Ate an awful lot before dinner....

I originally voted YANBU because I thought they were being ridiculously fussy over new potatoes, but I switched to YABU after seeing they were normal spuds!

Boiled potatoes are lovely, still in their jackets, steaming hot and buttered and salted lavishly.

Being Irish I have to say allllll potatoes ( praities our grandparents called them) are good.
Even here in the Canary islands where we are now, the old wrinkled potato is a big thing. And that´s OLD potatoes boiled ! Boil, in not too much water, with loads of salt so that they boil dry and wrinkled and salty. Then serve with the local ´mojo´sauce.
Anyway, I know there are many more immediately delicious recipes for potatoes, but boiling is the simplest- if they´re waxy, then mash them, if they´re floury, go on and roast them or enjoy with some butter and salt.
I say there´s so much you can do with boiled potatoes... make potato bread for a start. Boil, cool, add flour and seasoning and make into a dough. roll out and platten into patties and shallow fry in a little butter. They have to be boiled to get to this delicious end.

I was going to mention potato bread on the double carb thread.
Love it.
The Canary potato dish sounds lovely.

wow?! we all regular eat boiled pots, sometimes mashed sometimes not. Don’t always add butter just as they are with fish? or gravy sometimes? never thought about it really. We by a huge sack and work through them as chips, boiled, wedges, mash roast?! ...

@OldRailer now I´m craving them but unlike a lot of people I actually try not to have potatoes in all the time otherwise that´s all I´d eat!!!
The salty Canarian ´wrinkled potato´ came about when they used to havd to use sea water to cook them. I´ll have to put a recipe up on my blog ( fromcooktochef.com ) Let me know if you want me to DM you know when I get round to it. You need to have it with mojo sauce but I will make that and list it as well.

Ate them often as a child and occasionally do them now but there are nice BPs and horrendous BPs. I've eaten them in other homes and they were all wet and starchy huge chunks, underdone in the middle and sloppy on the outside. They don't have to be like that!