Can we have a love of potatoes thread please.

[Snooks1971]

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Nah. It's the perfect use for a really good spud.

Why? I've never used red skinned potatoes and mine are delicious :)

Oh yes. Mash. Mash with gravy. Mash with cheese. Mash with butter. Fried with fish to make fish cake. Topping beef or lamb for cottage or shepherds pie. With sausages. With pie
Roasted with beef dripping, or in a tray bake, roast with gravy.
Baked with tuna, or cheese, or beans.
Chips with fish. Or curry. Or gravy. On a butty.

When i feel posh - dauphinoise.

Bloody love potatoes. Sam Gamgee would be proud.

Love a Garron potato video

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“The best potatoes are still ahead of you”

I got a potato ricer for Christmas and used it for the first time tonight, made some really delicious mashed potato…the rest of the dinner was just the support act for the real star of the show. All hail the potato!!!

He is my inspiration!!!

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You're welcome.

I can’t bear them. Can’t roast them to save my life. Not a potato fan at all. Don’t like chips. Don’t like mask. Don’t like jacket. Mash makes me gag 🤮

Me too. I had a jacket spud today for lunch. Scooped out the potato, mixed that with butter, cheese, salt and sour cream, tore the skin into four bits and put some butter, cheese, salt and sour cream in each bit, folded them over and had delicious crunchy mini spudskin sandwiches on the side. God it was good.

I then had a nap.

This just reads like a confession of a weirdo to me.
Each to his own

Everything you say jives with me

Not least the nap.

Oops, excuse spelling!

I love me a spud or two! I went out for a meal a couple of weeks ago and had roast pork belly with cider sauce, braised root veg and colcannon. Honestly, it was so good I nearly wept tears of joy onto my plate. I can never get colcannon to taste so good at home, but as the more discerning members of my family will readily admit, I do a mean Hasselback. My parsnip and potato mash with creme fraiche and grainy mustard is not to be sneezed at, either. And now I'm hungry.

When the diet gurus say you should only eat things your granny ate, I'm happy because my granny mostly ate potatoes.

You can do the same with fish cakes , the nice cheap ones that are mainly potato. Make a big indent , fill with knob of butter and let it melt . The circular nature and breadcrumbs give it that little bit of stability so you can take a bit of melted butter with each bit of fish cake .

Best thing about summer is boiled new potatoes with salad cream , butter and crunchy Maldon on repeat (and other seasons too)

I wondered what this was until I scrolled down far enough to find the potatoes and O.M.G. I would absolutely be with you there for the potato tasting menu.

The miracle food!
In winter, roast them, mash them, puree them...
In summer, salad them, boil them... Roast them (roasties for the win).

Every other season...roast them?

I love jacket potatoes! Mostly with cold toppings like tuna mayo or longley farm cottage cheese and pineapple, but occasionally with home made chilli.
Not forgetting, spanish omelettes, roast potatoes, and mash with sausages and yorkshires.

30 odd years ago when we had a big mortgage, I had given up work because of a sickly baby and DH was early career and the fees weren't coming in, I had £20 to last for five days. Two nights dinners were: layer of sliced potatoes, layer of sliced onion, a few bits of chopped ham, black pepper, bit of garlic, and repeat to within an ich of the top of the dish. Pour over about 3/4pint cheese sauce. Serve with cabbage and carrots. Two more nights were pasta with tomato sauce (home made), with a bit of cheddar; and macaroni cheese.

On day six, DH rang to say three big cheques had come in and could I please get some meat :).

I showed this to an Irish friend yesterday and she lost it at “atheists explain this”

Give me your most nostalgic potato experience, potatoes that have a time and place in your heart.

My grandad, born in 1904, was a very independent man, whose wife died when my mum was 20, way before I was born. His house had no central heating a massive coal fire, and was, let's face it, grubby. He had a huge garden, that was basically a massive allotment, 2 kinds of plum trees, cherry tree, all kinds of berries, all veg, beautifully tended, into his 90s.

I can never eat boiled potatoes, as none have ever tasted as good as his, straight from the garden, salt and butter. No shop potato has ever hit the mark, so I just don't. My mum and sisters all agree.

My Dad used to say that you could live on potatoes alone. I don’t think he was right, but they are great TBF.

Your stomach thinks all potato is mashed.