Can we have a love of potatoes thread please.

[Snooks1971]

Posting for potato traffic.
Potato image under review.

Love them all ways

We did this with gravy

This was class based. Definitely a bit sneery. Reminded me of the middle class women who sneered at me in halls at university. My crime was to put sauce over my chips and not on the side. There's a lot of potato based oppression about.

Anyone else rather like oven chips? My Mum wouldn't use a chip pan after seeing one catch fire when she was a child, so we only had chips when we went to the chippy or, very occasionally, oven chips. As a result, oven chips were a bit of a treat, and, as I inherited my mother's fear of chip pan fires, I'd get them to have at home in the days before air-fryers. Oddly developed a taste for them, though still like proper ones from the chippy...

Well, potato based oppression certainly exists! https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/s/ohUqBvVFZL

Fresh magic mash for tea tonight, consisting of potatoes & carrots

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Where has this thread been all my life

I can't eat too many as my gut starts grumbling, but I love tiny baby potatoes roasted in oil and rosemary, with salmon, or in various soups. Or sliced thinly, sautéed with garlic in little discs then used as the base layer in an egg/veg frittata.

I also used to love M&S frites, those little fries. On their own, with a clod of mayo and a splash of vinegar.

They appear to have fallen out of fashion now, with people sneering about the starch, GI effect and so on. If you cook them then allow them to go cold in a fridge it changes the starch to resistant starch, also lowering the calorie content (not sure how much though!).

Brand new early potatoes (not now, not now) are the beautiful small waxy ones like Jersey Royals or if you are from Lincolnshire like me (potato outing post) then look for these delicious beauties around early June. Very short season. Gently boil with fresh mint sprigs and eat with lots of butter and salt.

They are unmashable, they are not floury. They are tiny firm flavoursome beasts.

Or steam. I recently discovered steaming new potatoes and it's been a revelation in taste retention.

Can I make a recommendation? Anya potatoes. Currently you can only buy them in Sainsbury's.

They are a slightly elongated new potato but they have a lovely flavour, sort of nutty.

TEMPTRESS!

Don’t blacken them , they’re ready at the crispy brown stage. Top with fried eggs

Sooo tired, have been working away so we are having these Lidl small salad potatoes sliced and roasted with sliced vintage cheddar and salad cream. Sliced green salad leaves also. Comfort.

Apologies for thrice slice word.

Niiiice. Did some slicing, too. I had thinly sliced potatoes in some pakora, first time i've made them and they turned out pretty good. Wish i'd thought to take a photo, but we've snarfed them all now!

making dauphinoise today to use up some of the cream and soft cheese in the freezer