What manner of potato would you team with beef bourguignon?

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For a big extended family special meal?

Can’t decide between mashed, roast or dauphinois.
Don’t tell me to make all three.

Going to serve with braised red cabbage and one other thing, can’t decide on that either. Cauliflower cheese, fancy leeks? Dunno.

What’s your beef bourginon recipe please?

@boatahoy is this as delicious and easy as I think it sounds it is?

Does it have cream in it too? Please let it have cream in it.

Dauphinois and/or mash

Mash every time

@CornishTiger will probably go with Julia Child.

No potatoes, just crusty bread and butter

Hasslebacks or lovely roasts. Anything else is just smush.

Anything but mash. I'm a potato lover but can't think of anything more boring. I'd go for parmentier potatoes, basically small roasties with garlic and rosemary. Very easy, not much effort for large numbers and nothing to do at the last minute.

@CornishTiger although I found this recipe in an old falling apart and aged-with-stains recipe book of mil’s that has a calf foot in it.

Mash to soak up the gravy. Or dauphonoise because I'd eat that all day any day.

I love dauphinoise, but with stew something drier might work better, perhaps parmentier, a cross between roast and chip, or lyonnaise, thinly sliced with onion, butter, parsley.

Buttery Mash, piled into a big ovenproof dish and baked with cheese on top (so it can be made in advance)

Dauphinois

Mustard mash.

I would go with colcannon.

Roast, otherwise it's a plate of just soft food, the roast potatoes will give crunch. Plus they are just delicious.

Mash

I would do cauliflower cheese mash. Add cooked cauliflower and grated cheese to your potato and mash. Its delicious 😋

Mash if you do red cabbage, roast baby pots if cauliflower cheese.

Mash, cauliflower cheese & beef b all together will be a very sloppy plate of food!

Mind you, any of my family & regular dinner guests would eat the whole lot whatever!

That's an amazing BB recipe - do you have a calf's foot?

@Inextremis not right now I don’t.
Bet it makes it unctuous.

No idea what this is called. But it was lovely.

I use shin of beef for my boeuf bourguignon, 4 hours in a low oven. Divine.

Mashed potatoes, definitely.

I like the idea of fancy leeks, but maybe not everyone does.

Cauliflower cheese using half broccoli is very nice.

Mash

I make this once a week during autumn/winter! I usually do cheesy mash (sometimes with sweated leeks mixed in), roasted parsnips and greens/cabbage or peas. Whilst it's an indulgent meal it's absolutely packed with veg as I put onion, carrot, finely diced celery and turnip in the beef too!