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?

Sacrilege on this thread.

Boiled potatoes are the food of the gods. Waxy, floury, peeled or not, new or old - they are all scrummy yumtious!

Organic potatoes have more flavour ime. Boiled, with a good slathering of butter and a touch of really savoury gravy from a good meat stew...mmmmmm

Jersey royals, yes. Normal potatoes, no.

I hate boiled potatoes (unless new potatoes in eg a salad).
Now I’m a grown up, I’m so glad I don’t have to eat them.
We’d have very floury boiled potatoes as a kid. I’d have to drown them in ketchup to get them down......

I'd eat them. But it is the most boring way to have potatoes.

I am not Brotish, but I grew up on boiled potatoes🤷🏻 Nothing wrong with them.

I don't think I have ever served my children boiled potatoes and my eldest is 9. I remember hating them as a child and used to mash them up with other things on my plate.

I love boiled potatoes. With butter and salt, gravy, or marmite.

I love a boiled spud with lots of salt and white pepper,absolutely swimming in butter .

My parents used to do boiled potatoes. I never complained but I used to get the butter from the kitchen and mash them up with my fork.

I always thought this was a big secret and they never knew (whilst we all sat doing the dinner table together).

I always thought they were pretty boring but no your not being unfair to cook them if you like them. They’ll survive!

I hate potatoes. New ones slathered in butter with chopped up spring onions and freshly ground pepper is an exception.

I'm amazed at all the haters on here.....

Boiled spuds are a staple - with all sorts of meals. DH always wants gravy with them but DD and I prefer butter. Yes - baby new potatoes are lovely but big fat old ones are too! I will mash them sometimes if I can be bothered but we probably have boiled potatoes (whether old or new) at least twice a week. I do a Sunday roast each week and always do both roast and boiled.

We also eat them with fish, chops, faggots, sausages, steak, meat pies, stew/casserole/boeuf bourgignon type meals, goulash, etc etc. ( I might also do mash with those but often just plain spud).

What's the alternative? I mean pasta and rice for other meals obviously - but if you're having potatoes then it's jacket, boiled or mash? Chips are great but either take forever to make (and deep fry) or you buy processed ones, so not exactly healthy. Or you can make dauphinoise or fancy things if you can be bothered - but how often does anyone do that?

OP - you aren't wrong, and your family are ungrateful and rude! Let them cook!

Ha - I live in Sweden and boiled potatoes are virtually a national dish - ar school kids get them at least twice a week

... you have them with many mince dishes - meatballs, meatloaf, Salisbury steak
... you have them with fish dishes - pickled herring, fried herring warm smoked salmon, poached salmon, fried fish, fish in sauce
... you get them with stews, meat such as ham, beef, pork, marinaded chicken, quorn etc etc
... you get them with very Nordic dishes such as Cabbage pudding or Liver bake

New potatoes are much better. I like 'herby potatoes' that come with the knob of butter and herbs. That'd make the tea quite nice.

I make boiled potatoes into Bombay potatoes. But apparently some people use roasters for that. That'd be even nicer.

BTW my DH and DS love them! DD will mash hers with butter but never complains.

Boiled new potatoes are great with some salt and herbs.

Don't think it'd occur to me to boil cut-up big potatoes. I should think boarding school was the last time I was subjected to those. Horrible things.

Guys you are missing out!
Weird recipe perhaps but went down a treat when I was a child was a saucepan of boiled potatoes (peeled), and chop up a white onion finely and mix it in with butter and salt. It adds a crunch texture to the mash. Possibly not to everyone's taste judging by the previous posts on this thread, but they are very nutritious actually.

@Haveyouallgonequitemad How's about Dauphinoise potatoes? That'd maybe be to sloppy for them too- but you can give them a crispy top.

I had these as part of a takeaway thing somewhere recently. Was thinking I would try and make them. Supposedly they're really easy.

OP, depends on the variety of the potatoes. I love boiled Charlotte potatoes served with cottage cheese, a salad. Salmon, tuna or smoked fish would be nice as well. I also like other varieties of potatoes but I don't like all boiled potatoes. Not all boiled potatoes taste nice. Some are watery.
If you have lots of boiled potatoes and they're cold, peel them, cut them into cubes and roast them in oil/butter adding sea salt and black pepper. Add some cottage cheese. Smoked mackerel, salad etc.

Hmmm quite fancy a boiled spud. Might have that for dinner tomorrow. Plain boiled - yummy!

I actually like boiled spuds but only with proper homemade meat based gravy. The meal in the OP sounds quite dry, with that meal I would have at least mashed them.

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Nicely cooked normal spuds yes not very gourmet but ffs I couldnt be arsed is that a crime?! Is it so wrong to have them sometimes I quite like them

Yuck. Sorry.

New Potatoes yes. Old potatoes no.

Haven't had big old boiled potatoes outside my ILs' house for decades. If I say I'm doing boiled potatoes, I always mean new potatoes, like Charlottes or Jersey Royals. But we're all finicky types in my house.

Lunde, exactly. Boiled potatoes are so versatile. I think some people either don't know how to eat them or have never tried good tasty potatoes. Good potato variety is even tasty on its own.

Ohh - new potatoes boiled done in their skins and left for a good while before serving get a beautiful sweetness that doesn't need butter. I get that's not quite what you're suggesting but I wouldn't turned down a boiled spud - think of it as "make your own mash" like build a bear but instead you get to batter a spud with a fork on your plate to the consistency of your choosing. OK maybe not. but YANBU.