Boiled potatoes have no place on a roast dinner!

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My DP was confused as to why I wasn’t cooking some boiled potatoes to go along with the roast potatoes on our Christmas dinner.

Who does this?! He maintains that it is a thing - his DM and DGM did them so he thinks that everyone has both roast potatoes and boiled potatoes on a roast. Google suggests he is wrong.

What do the wise people of MN think?

YABU = yes boiled potatoes and roast potatoes together on a roast dinner are normal.

YANBU = roast potatoes are the king of potatoes on a roast and boring boiled potatoes are taking up space that could be more delicious roasties!

Does it matter? Have what you like.

If he wants them to figure on the menu but stay uneaten, he's ridiculous.
If he fancies boiled potatoes, then he can make himself boiled potatoes.

Apart from new potatoes I think boiled potatoes are an abomination, something my Gran and Mum served back in the 70's. There are much nicer alternatives, but yes think we would of had them served together

I can't remember the last time I had a boiled potato.
Roasted or mashed are what we have.

I can only fit enough roast potatoes into the oven to not need mash if there are less than 6 of us. So a mid-week mini roast for example.
On Sundays and special days there are always too many people for only roast potatoes.
We do often have leftover mash, so that gets used up during the week.

Growing up we had boiled potatoes as an addition to roast, without necessarily mashing them.

I definitely have two types of potato, usually roast potatoes and mash. I find them filling and love the other vegetables too. Roast and all the trimmings right there 😊

Roast potatoes are the whole point of a roast dinner. Why would you settle for anything less?

Boiled potatoes are the most pointless potato, unless they're buttered jersey royals in a salad or with fish. Waste of plate space!

Whispers - I prefer mash to roast potatoes. Although DD does make cracking roast potatoes.

The best boiled potatoes I have ever had were in Portugal and the Azores. They were firm and waxy, salty and full of flavour. I have never had such delicious boiled potatoes anywhere else.

This.

roasted dinner is meat and whatever sides you prefer. There should be no rules.

however whoever is cooking gets to choose. If you want something else, you cook.

my only “rule” it is can’t be something that will go to waste if uneaten. So anything potato based is a go as leftovers can be saved for another day, or remade into something else.

Years ago my mum used to do some boiled potatoes, as in peeled potatoes, just boiled (not new potatoes).

LTB.

Plain boiled potatoes are very school dinners.

Mash and roasties for a roast dinner.

The worst roast I had had tough pork (which turned out to be turkey), lots of dry pre-made roasties and some overcooked veg. No sauces. No gravy. There was some ketchup on the table for the toddler so I ended up using that to make it chewable.

If he wants them why not? A roast to me is about togetherness and comfort. If his comfort is a couple of boiled Spuds I'm OK with that.

I do mash and roast for Christmas, but normally just roasties.

When I was a child, and veggies were seasonal rather than being flown from all over the world we had 'new' potatoes boiled in the summer with our roast. I remember the excitement when the old potatoes came back for winter and we had roasted potatoes again. No one thought of roasting baby potatoes in those days.

I find it hard to understand how people manage so many different veg with Christmas dinner. Mash, cauliflower cheese (which IMO should always be made last minute for non-mushy cauliflower) never mind boiled potatoes, too. Even if I wanted to, it’d be a major faff and hassle, with just 4 burners on the hob.

I don't particularly like "roast dinners", and never cook them, but when I was a child it was one roast potato each and the rest were boiled.
(But that was in the poverty-struck 1970s 🤣).

I don't have sweetcorn but what's wrong with broccoli? I assume most people have broccoli on their Christmas dinner as its one of the veg that was 8p in the supermarkets in the run up to Christmas

Aa for potatoes I always do mash and roast potatoes

DD cooked. Our main was mushroom pithiviers. For vegetables we had:

Roast parsnips
Roast carrots
Roast sprouts with chestnuts
Mashed swede
Red cabbage

Roast potatoes

I never understand the need for any kind of second potato. Just make more roasties 🤷‍♀️

I agree with you, but it has been clarified upthread that when feeding the 5,000 there isn't enough room in the oven for enough roasties.

We only ever do one type of potato because we can make enough. It's the same with lasagne. my portions are sufficient that no-one would want any chips as well.

My granny used to do roasted, boiled and croquette potatoes for Christmas dinner. Not sure if that’s a regional thing, she was Scottish. I’ve never heard of potato croquettes on a Christmas dinner here in southern England! Or maybe it’s a generation thing.

She also did three kinds of meat, half a dozen vegetables, two kinds of stuffing and various canned fruits and sauces for Christmas dinner. She was a stressed out mess over Christmas Day and I swore I was doing things differently - I do one meat, roast potatoes, one stuffing, two or three veg and that is it. I’m much happier by Boxing Day than she was and I wouldn’t entertain suggestions of multiple types of potato.

I'm with you on proper sweetcorn but do allow baby sweetcorn. Is that acceptable? 🧐🙂

Only roasties for us, I don't want ordinary spuds with my roast dinner, my parents always did boiled and roast but we would only be allocated one roasty each 😥