What are you cooking that uses potatoes (not new) in this hot weather? And what are wild tomatoes and perpetual spinach?

[bozza]

I got some potatoes in my last week's box that I have not used. We seem to be eating either salads with new potatoes or crusty bread or pasta/couscous based dishes atm. What can I make that is summery but uses potatoes?

Also I've got wild tomatoes and perpetual spinach coming this week? In what ways do they differ to standard tomatoes and spinach?

How about indian snack food?

bhajia - slice very thinly, and coat in batter made with gram flour, chilli, fresh coriander, salt and water. Deep fry and gobble the lot!

betata vada - mash with lots of garlic, salt, and a bit of puried green chilli. shape inot balls, then fry in batter as above minus the coriander.

LOL, we are in Scotland and I'm doing a sausage casserole and mash tonight, ie it was sweltering hot yesterday and back to winter today!

Thanks everyone. These are sounding like good ideas. Can I deep fry in an ordinary pan?

It is muggy here atm mrsspoon.

God, my mum grew perpetual spinach when we were kids - from memory, it's like normal spinach, but iot grows and growns and fecking grows. we had to eat it at least twice a day for YEARS. Boiled to buggery.
Oh, sorry, sure yours will be lovely

Definitely not casserole weather then bozza.

a tortilla?

Don't forget jacket spuds with salad and tuna mayo/cheese/beans/coleslaw/quiche!

We had jackets a couple of weeks ago, I scooped out the middle, mashed it with salt, pepper, cheese and a little butter, piled it back in the skins with a bit more cheese on top, grilled them and served with a green salad and plenty of tomatoes. It was gorgeous.

I am liking all these ideas. I had thought about doing stuffed potatoes actually because I have some bacon, but then forgot I had thought of it. I love rosti but never think to make it. And I found a recipe for tortilla with spinach in on the BBC website which is great.

i also did potato salad the other day, but with an oil/vinegar dressing instead of mayo. you can lob in anything else too - blanched, peeled broad beans, boiled eggs, red onions, etc

you will need at least 1.5 inches of oil, can jsut use a saucepan.

tortillas is a good idea, I'm plannign to make courgette tortillas this week.

potato salad?

I would normally use new potatoes in a potato salad. Is this unnecessary?

new pots are preferable, but i quite like them when they're old and a bit fluffy/crushed

what kind of potatoes are they?

Don't know really. Reasonable size ones that you could bake and dirty.

chop them up into cubes and put into a pot containing hot olive oil and a couple of unpeeled cloves of garlic and a stick of rosemary. Lid on and fry and shake etc. then about half-way through fling in some finely chopped rosemary.
they're just sauteed pots, but the shaking is lovely as it bashes the flavours about and makes them all lovely and golden.

I made a lovely fritatta with potatoes, goats cheese and spring onion tonight, served with salad. Twas a lovely summery meal (if I do say so myself)

I grow perpeptual spinach, its not actually spinach but leaf beet, or spinach beet I can't remember. Its different, but tastes teh same and is used/cooked the same. Bigger leaves (or my plant has bigger leaves anyway).

I get confused with spinach (I am not much of a cook; well I wasn't until recently) - Could the perpetual spinach be used as a salad leaf or does it have to be cooked?

You could eat it raw.

What about a Potato Omlette or Tortilla? You could use the wild toms and spinach as well. Or make them into a rosti to have with girlled fish or meat.