To serve boiled potatoes

[Haveyouallgonequitemad]

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?

This thread is weird. Boiled potatoes are the same as mashed potatoes just that each individual has to mash their own.

We have boiled potatoes with steak pie, roast beef and mince.
I prefer boiled potatoes to mashed potatoes.

[quote WhatWouldPhyllisCraneDo]@MasterBeth how so? And don't be so rude!

It might have taken a bit of effort to mash them but they could have been mashed if one so wished. They were fucking delicious. Not fucked up at all.[/quote]

They sound like very sophisticated crushed potatoes to me!

[quote WhatWouldPhyllisCraneDo]@MasterBeth how so? And don't be so rude!

It might have taken a bit of effort to mash them but they could have been mashed if one so wished. They were fucking delicious. Not fucked up at all.[/quote]
You can crush a boiled potato but you shouldn’t be able to smoothly mash it - you need to take a bit further to get good mash. Your poor children with their wallpaper paste potatoes!

Boiled potatoes are rank. My Mum used to serve them all the time when I was younger and they are literally the most boring food so I make sure we never have them

Crush/mash whatever. If my "poor" children (who have survived 16 and 14 years of my cooking) didn't want their potatoes boiled they were welcome to do something with their fork.

@tobee they were lovely. But no crushing actually happened. Clearly my dc are as lazy as me

I’m getting flashbacks to my ex MIL’s cooking . Boiled potatoes are a no from me. Boiled new potatoes l can just about tolerate

Survival food is a very good definition for a boiled potato. I suppose they would taste worse if you ate them raw, but not by much.

I love boiled potatoes. They are comfort food, totally un-pretentious, and I would definitely eat more chocolate if it wasn't for potatoes.

Wow. Thought it was just me. A childhood of boring boiled potatoes, now I only do it if they are new potatoes.

Otherwise peeling and boiling is a middle step en route to roasties or mash.

@Glitteryone

I’m irish and I grew up eating boiled potatoes with dinner every night.

My parents are old school and they still have meat, veg & boiled potatoes every day! Mum might have a chinese takeaway once a week but Dad doesn’t think it’s a real dinner unless it includes boiled potatoes!

OMG I SWEAR we must be related, except my Mum would never have been as adventurous as to order a Chinese takeaway!

Sorry OP but boiled potatoes really don't do it for me.

I love boiled potatoes. With butter. I want some now

You can often get the new 'herby potatoes' reduced. So they're ok value.

ha, same here, boiled potatoes every day for 18 years.

Am not a fan but my dd likes them she gets them when am doing mash as she prefers them. Your kids are fed thats the main thing.

Dauphinoise potatoes are gorgeous, but I try to go the healthy route. They are actually very nutritious and as I mentioned earlier, if you're having trouble with bowel movements, they tend to stabilise things.

I believe they also contain a lot of vitamin C.

I would eat potatoes with every meal if I could. In any form. I'm too lazy though.

And for Christmas dinner, yes, we have roast potatoes, mash and potato croquettes! Beat that!

Haven't eaten this since school, vile things.
Nasty and boring

I only ever boil potatoes to do something more interesting with them.
Just bland boiled potatoes on your plate, like we children of the 50s and 60s endured, not even interesting enough to be horrible... no.

@Haveyouallgonequitemad Hi I have to say my DS doesn't approve of just boiled either gave them back to me, literally 🤣

@KilljoysDutch

It depends were they lovely baby potatoes boiled in their skins with some butter or horrible standard potatoes boiled with no skin? Or worse cooked like my MIL - peeled new potatoes boiled to death with mint?

🤣🤣 The boiled to death but sounds like me!

Now all I can think about is Findus crispy pancakes (not crispy just sloppy vomit covered in bright orange coating) and manky boiled spuds I made them the other day and was shocked its actually pancakes!

I love boiled potatoes, with butter and sea salt. New potatoes in skins are my favourite, but my understanding was that they are only in season late Spring to late Autumn? Hence the name “new”... aware may be showing my age and hopelessly wrong here!
I can remember eagerly awaited arrival of new pots (esp Jersey Royals) early Summer as a child.
I know we can get new pots all year round now, but I don’t buy in winter - they tend mostly to be mealy and sweet-tasting, due to having been in storage.
Floury, maincrop potatoes have a longer season and store much more successfully - so good to eat all year. They are better with things like casseroles or slow-cooked meat, I think.

My MIL serves boiled potatoes that sit on the plate in a puddle of starchy water because she doesn’t drain them before serving. So odd and so gross. I can’t even look at a boiled potato any more. Roasted all the way.

@WhatWouldPhyllisCraneDo lol!

I love them but they have to be new potatoes covered in butter and fresh mint.