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Please explain double potatoes to me! [grin]

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SpaceOP · 15/01/2024 13:38

Don't get me wrong, I LOVE potatoes. I can even see the appeal of a stew, with potatoes, served on rice...

But what's with the roast potato AND mashed potato in one meal thing? I am on a food group and I quite often see this when people post their Sunday roasts - roast potatoes, mashed potatoes, veggies, meat, gravy etc.

If I had AIBU voting it would be:

IABU to think ONE kind of potato is enough for any meal?

Or have I just completely missed one of the great joys of anyone's foodie life?

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PuttingDownRoots · 15/01/2024 16:46

When people say a potato croquette... do you mean the frozen things from the supermarket or is there a nicer homemade version?

Mrsjayy · 15/01/2024 16:50

mine were fresh but I had frozen them because they were on offer over Christmas. I usually buy frozen though.

Dogandbooklover · 15/01/2024 16:56

Double potato, not so sure.
But a chip butty is awesome! White bread and lots of butter.

genesis92 · 15/01/2024 17:07

Mash has no place on a roast dinner. For plebs only IMO 😆

Xmasbaby11 · 15/01/2024 17:10

I’m fine with double carb or even double potato. You get it at carveries and I guess you don’t have a full portion of each.

im definitely too lazy to make mash and roasties though!

Afestivechange · 15/01/2024 17:10

Oh @peachgreen that was so, so the sign of 'Welcome, stranger connected to my childer. We show you GREAT HONOUR, guest, with our WIDE ARRAY of potato preparations'.

If a parent from anywhere on the island offered me five kinds of potato at a meal I would just book the church and reception then and there and choose some wedding china. More significant than an actual proposal I'd say. What a pet.

Mrsjayy · 15/01/2024 17:11

genesis92 · 15/01/2024 17:07

Mash has no place on a roast dinner. For plebs only IMO 😆

Rude 😄 tbh it is probably a thing from bygone days of the more potatoes you had the less meat you needed .

peachgreen · 15/01/2024 17:59

Afestivechange · 15/01/2024 17:10

Oh @peachgreen that was so, so the sign of 'Welcome, stranger connected to my childer. We show you GREAT HONOUR, guest, with our WIDE ARRAY of potato preparations'.

If a parent from anywhere on the island offered me five kinds of potato at a meal I would just book the church and reception then and there and choose some wedding china. More significant than an actual proposal I'd say. What a pet.

Ahh this is exactly it! I was so touched, FIL is older and a widower and I came as a bit of a shock (DH was just divorced and he and I were a bit of a whirlwind romance and as a retired minister it was all a bit modern for FIL!) so cooking a big meal like that was a big deal for him. I was so nervous but walked in to this table heaving with potato and knew that things were going to be Okay – and they were, and are. We have been of great comfort to each other in the face of DH’s death.

SwimmingWorrier · 15/01/2024 18:01

I'm having homemade cheeseburgers & wedges so double carbing today.

Marblessolveeverything · 15/01/2024 18:19

@PuttingDownRoots we make them at home. Usually mash some veg lots of seasoning and possibly ham, cheese or whatever is knocking around - roll in homemade breadcrumbs.

We started making them to use up leftovers and they kind of overtook that function.

bobomomo · 15/01/2024 18:22

Good roasted potatoes are food of the gods, but it's hard to do in large quantities so if cooking for more than 4-6 I either cook mash as well or ;my preference) do sweet potatoes as well separately which cook quicker too. I think it could be a bit regional because I never experienced this growing up (London) but mash and roasted potatoes was normal in the Midlands

bobomomo · 15/01/2024 18:24

But the texture contrast works well so I tend to do mashed swede (added advantage, low calorie)

lennonj · 15/01/2024 20:40

I think the double potato on a roast is a northern thing and obviously an Irish thing. Don’t knock it till you’ve tried it and I feel sorry for all the people who don’t get to experience this! 😉

CatherinedeBourgh · 15/01/2024 20:56

therealcookiemonster · 15/01/2024 16:27

did you have a traumatic experience with potatoes at a young age perhaps? maybe a memory you suppressed?

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😂

No, I was brought up on chips. And crisps. And all that jazz.

I just find they have no taste at all. When I say this to people who love them, they always say 'well, yes, but...'.

I guess I just don't get the but... bit.

DocOck · 15/01/2024 21:28

I think if you think potatoes have no taste @CatherinedeBourgh then they're not being cooked right!

clare8allthepies · 15/01/2024 21:52

I don’t do mash on a roast dinner, but am definitely not adverse to a bit of double (or triple) carb on meals.

This has reminded me of when I lived in Newcastle I was chatting with a woman at work about roast dinners and saying that I really missed my parents awesome ones with alll of the veggies and that I didn’t really bother making them as there was just the two of us. She replied saying that her dinners were amazing and that she always had a house full every Sunday as everyone came round for the feast, I joked that she might just find me on her doorstep!

The next week she showed me a photo of her effort from the weekend and it was a plate piled high with chicken, loads of roasties, a huge mound of mash, about 4 Yorkshire puddings and about a dessert spoonful of peas! 🤣

Mind you, my veg-dodging kids would probably love that these days 🙄

steppemum · 16/01/2024 08:07

I don't have a problem with double (triple?) carbs, (potato curry, rice and naan bread....) but mash potatoes have NO PLACE on a roast dinner.

Scandalous! Roasties and roasties only.
Mashed other veg is fine, but roast potatoes are the queen of the dinner, and mash with a roast is just so....... boring.

Mash is a glorious thing in the right place, but on a plate full of gravy and roasties it is just a waste of space and mooshes with the gravy and ruins everything.

But a good roast should have roast veggies too (parsnips, butternut squash, carrots, sweet potatoes) and 2 green veg, and stuffing. Who has space for mash???

CatherinedeBourgh · 16/01/2024 08:15

DocOck · 15/01/2024 21:28

I think if you think potatoes have no taste @CatherinedeBourgh then they're not being cooked right!

I have literally had them in 3 star Michelin restaurants. Yes, with enough stuff on them they can be nice, but that exact same dish would be 10x tastier with any other starchy veg as a base.

New2024 · 16/01/2024 08:18

When our DS was younger he didn’t like roast pots. We both love roasties and the DH doesn’t like mash. Now we just do roasties

Mrsjayy · 16/01/2024 12:09

I don't really like boiled potatoes I eat new potatoes at a push but ive got to have mayo or gravy with them.

NC543210 · 16/01/2024 12:17

Mash and Roast potatoes on a Sunday lunch 100% in the winter.
New potatoes and roast potatoes in the warmer months.

I also like a mash potato and mint sauce sandwich. This is a hangover from a pregnancy craving I had tbh and not something I'd have daily.

StiffyByngsDogBartholomew · 16/01/2024 12:48

We went out to a Toby carvery at the weekend to meet some elderly relatives (it's the only place they will go) where they serve macaroni cheese. As an accompaniment to a roast... WTAF

StiffyByngsDogBartholomew · 16/01/2024 12:49

steppemum · 16/01/2024 08:07

I don't have a problem with double (triple?) carbs, (potato curry, rice and naan bread....) but mash potatoes have NO PLACE on a roast dinner.

Scandalous! Roasties and roasties only.
Mashed other veg is fine, but roast potatoes are the queen of the dinner, and mash with a roast is just so....... boring.

Mash is a glorious thing in the right place, but on a plate full of gravy and roasties it is just a waste of space and mooshes with the gravy and ruins everything.

But a good roast should have roast veggies too (parsnips, butternut squash, carrots, sweet potatoes) and 2 green veg, and stuffing. Who has space for mash???

Do you roast all those veggies together and do you put any sort of glaze on ? Sounds delicious

TheChosenTwo · 16/01/2024 12:54

I like double carbs but not double potato.
I had a roast dinner with some family up north once and it came with both roasted and mashed potatoes, weird and I skirted around the mash which has no place on a ROAST dinner 😂

steppemum · 16/01/2024 13:01

StiffyByngsDogBartholomew

I have a huge oven tray that is basically a shelf, so the roasties go on one half, and then the parsnips etc go on the other half. If I have too many potatoes I will add another tin., but then I start to run out of space in th eoven! No glaze, just in oil like the potatoes.

Roast Parsnips have always been part of a roast dinner for me. The carrots and sweet potato etc are newer, because my kids like them.

I always used to do carrots the way my Granny did. Grated in a dish with a knob of butter and foil on the top. Put in the oven for about 45-60 minutes. Totally delicious with gravy