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!

Why can't you have sweetcorn with a roast? I love chicken and sweetcorn

If I could be bothered I'd have roast, mash and boiled (well, steamed). Love my tatties.

We do mash and roast potatoes, but I’m really not a big fan of boiled.

Christmas dinner traditionally has two kinds of potatoes in my book. I don’t know why, it just does. Maybe because if you have a big group most ovens won’t fit enough roasters in?

I normally do roast and steamed, roast and mash would be OK too. I never boil spuds or any other veg though, always steam, it tastes better.

Who is having lasagna with chips?

I am one of the anti sweetcorn brigade 😂 the thought of sweetcorn with gravy turns my stomach. I don’t get it. I love sweetcorn with BBQ or Mexican meal but not gravy.

My nana used to do this, and she'd be over 100 if she was still alive today. Never known anyone else to.

Me! Lasagne, chips and peas, with loads of bechamel to squidge the chips into. Bloody lovely.

If I was served boiled potatoes I’d assume they forgot to do the roasting part.

Not when I am cooking roast dinner 😂 love me baby sweetcorn in a stir fry but again not with gravy

We don’t do it but i don’t think it’s strange. Lots of people have them.

I did 2 types potato for the first time this year and it was banging - roast, obv, and creamy dauphinois, such a welcome new texture!

Had the Yorkshire discussion. My mother is very superior about the ‘yorkshires only with beef’ but can’t explain the reasoning behind that. For me, Yorkshires are a neutral and go with everything.

That’s me back in my box. But I don’t do bechamel on a lasagna- it’s a cheese sauce without the best part in my opinion. So I just use cheese sauce to make mine. So I am a hearten too 😂 I love a food thread as we all do things so differently and it’s always an eye opener. Question is anyone bothering with a Sunday roast today after mid week Christmas?

his family must have cooked boiled potato's alongside roasties to bulk things out in a easy way.Think about it you have a largish family only so much room for roasties ,so whats easy to bulk out the potato's

Roast potatoes only
Yorkshire puddings regardless what type of meat.
And proper gravy
(having had Christmas roast with "gravy" that was just a stock cube in water.

Baby sweetcorn is never acceptable here, a) because it’s pretty tasteless, and b) because it’s usually flown in from the likes of Thailand.

I’m in the boiled potatoes belong on no plate ever camp, let alone with a roast dinner or on Christmas Day. I do remember it being a thing when I was a child in the 70s though. We only had roasties at home but restaurants and pubs always served both boiled and roast potatoes with a Sunday roast. We thought it was weird but my dad loved it because his mother did both but she had 8 kids (6 of them hollow legged boys) so an ovenful of roast potatoes wouldn’t have been enough. Plus she was Irish and served boiled spuds with pretty much everything 😂

I would have made them for him. Everyone gets what they want at Christmas in our house. We have mash, sweet potato and marshmallows, cauliflower cheese, broccoli, Yorkshire pudding and a tin of Mexicorn at Christmas alongside the “correct” (in my opinion 😂) vegetables and garnishes to make sure everyone gets their special requests. Luckily, no one has ever requested boiled spuds 😂 Although I’m a bit sad that I never thought to make some for my late father, who probably would have loved it but was far too polite to put anyone to any trouble.

DP comes from a small family (just him and his DM) so it’s not that. Neither are they Irish or Welsh.

This was for our ‘second Christmas’ as we weren’t together on actual Christmas Day. If he wanted the boiled potatoes I would have done some for him but he was happy with extra roasties.

He didn’t demand anything or have a strop and he helped me with the cooking and clearing up.

We were just having a light hearted discussion about if it was ‘normal’ or not to have boiled potatoes on a roast.

Roast potatoes and buttery mash! Crispy roast potatoes, and mash with a well in the top that can be filled with gravy...

Yes I do mash and roast for Christmas dinner.
For a normal roast I would usually do just one type of potato but sometimes roast plus mash/new potatoes

We do mash and roasties too...I thought this was a given ??

I am also of the opinion that that mashed and boiled potatoes are only used to bulk out a meal cheaply and easily and so have no place on a proper roast, Christmas or otherwise. Cooking lots of roast potatoes needs lots of oven space, probably a double oven (or, my preferred option, the Aga) and takes longer than using the hob. However in my family they have never formed part of a roast dinner, or therefore Christmas lunch.

Likewise, as a Yorkshire woman, Yorkshire puddings have always only been served with beef - again, they are a cheap and easy way of making food go further, beef historically being an expensive meat. Lamb used to be cheap, though now isn’t, and so didn’t come with Yorkshire puddings either. But turkey, chicken and pork are cheap and do not need padding out with Yorkshire pudding. Though, for some reason, stuffing is acceptable with them 😂😂

I cook whatever potato I can be bothered with preparing.

DD loves mash and roast. For Xmas dinner I only do roast potatoes, but growing up we had boiled as well, alongside Aunt Bessie. Probably why I'm not that bothered about them as we never had home made when I was growing up.

I literally can't see the excitement about potatoes and would rather have five types of vegetables.

Love most types of spud. Only one at a time though.

That's my daughter's idea of heaven. She follows a girl called 'poppy cooks' who does potato recipes.

It's my idea of a totally pointless dinner. What a waste of bland calories!