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[AnnMumsnet]

Tonight on BBC 2 at 8pm the "Great British Food Revival" is talking about potatoes and with this in mind Potato Council would like to hear about your best tips for cooking with potatoes and recipes featuring potatoes and to then include them on their Mumsnet hub (coming soon). In case you didn't know: "Potato Council is part of the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board working on behalf of British potato growers and purchasers to promote potatoes. We are funded through a statutory levy on 3,000 potato growers and potato trade purchasers and we aim to support the British potato industry."

Potato Council say that potatoes are "low in calories, they're naturally fat-free, bursting with vitamins and minerals, contain absolutely no cholesterol and when served with their skins are a great source of fibre"

They are going to be having a special page on Mumsnet soon and would love to feature some of your own recipes and tips for cooking for the family (and yourself) using potatoes.

Please share them here - everyone who adds tip or recipe to this thread will be entered into a prize draw where one lucky winner will win a £100 Sainsbury's voucher.

Many thanks and good luck

MNHQ

[flamingtoaster]

Potato bread - proportions aren't critical but approximately

4 oz cooked potato to 1 oz flour and 1 oz butter

Salt to taste - or omit if avoiding salt

Mash potato and work all ingredients together until you get a dough. Roll out and form into a circle (about 1/4 inch thick), cut in quarters and cook on a griddle until brown on both sides. Or if feeling decadent fry in bacon fat!

Delicious with fried or poached eggs.

[FreudianSlippery]

We had a fab potato based dinner tonight.

potato peppers

We had leftover roast spuds and roast tomatoes, and cooked broccoli and peas. Mixed it all up in a blender with spring onion, courgette and breadcrumbs, until it was smooth but not too sloppy.

Cut the tops off and scoop out the insides of red/orange/yellow peppers, and fill them with the mix. Spread some philadelphia generic cream cheese on top, and then replace the pepper lid. Bake for 25-30 mins at around 200.

We had them with sausages but you could have them as a starter/veggie option, they were soooo yummy! If we'd had any, pine nuts would've made a great addition to the mix but they're so expensive

[barristermum]

Pan Haggerty

Quantities depend on the size of your heavy-based frying/saute pan with lid.

Waxy Potatoes (although I used Maris Pipers last night and still delicious), peeled
Bog-standard cheddar cheese, grated
Sliced onions
Salt and pepper

1. Slice potatoes about 7mm thick and after heating the pan with a tbsp oil, place one layer in the bottom of the pan.
   

1. Scatter a good handful of onions over the potatoes.
   

1. Scatter a good handful of cheese, and then season.
   

1. Slice potatoes slightly thinner for the next layer and repeat layers of onions and cheese and seasoning.
   

1. Slice potatoes slightly thinner for the next layer and repeat layers of onions and cheese and seasoning. Until you have as much as you need for everyone's supper.
   

Put lid on and cook on moderate heat for an hour and a half or until the top very thin layer of potato is cooked through and the bottom layer has formed a deliciously caramelised cheesy crusty disc that everyone will fight over.

Then put lid

[Jux]

My best spud tip?

Grow yer own.

[prettybird]

Another potato tip: if you use a potato ricer to mash your potatoes, you don't need to peel them first :)

Just fish out the skin as you squash them a few at a time.

Saves time and keeps more of the vitamins in (IIRC).

[mercibucket]

make up a load of mash, mix with steamed cabbage, lots of butter and a bit of milk, put into a casserole dish, then make 4 dips in the mix and break 4 eggs into the mix
top with cheese
cook til eggs are cooked
yum

[ArfurBrain]

Jux, you're kidding! Ok, so the seed pots are cheap, but you have to a) have the garden space or the allotment to begin with, b) have the time to dig, dig, weed and er, dig c)recent damp, humid summers mean potato blight, no spuds to store and a load of infected haulms to dispose of and a patch unfit for spuds the next year.



Unless you are talking about growing a few in a bucket, which is nice, but hardly self-sufficiency...

[Jux]

Well, I was thinking more like a sack thing, but OK. They'll still be nicer while you have 'em.

Last year I grew a load. I just shoved some of the ones we'd found at the back of the cupboard which were all full of sprouting eyes into an undug bed and waited a while. Then there were green shoots. Then it got hot so I watered them a bit. Then they grew big and I talked to them a bit and sprayed them with garlic water. Then I pulled them up.

No dig dig dig. No weeding. No blight.

[Coldcuppacoffee]

Easy and healthy:

Put a baking pot in the oven and wait until it is really squishy, remove the inside into a bowl and add some mackerel to the bowl and mash (watch for bones) then take some natural yogurt (better than sour cream) and add that to the bowl. Add plenty of pepper. Spoon back into the potato and put back into the oven until the top is crispy.
Serve with green salad.

Yum.

[aristocat]

potato rosti are delish and simple to make -

1/2 potato (peeled and grated)
1 small onion (finely chopped)
1oz butter
1 tbsp olive oil
salt and pepper

Pre-heat oven to 200C.
Place the onion and grated potato in a large bowl. Season well with salt and pepper and mix together.

Melt the butter with the oil in a small ovenproof frying pan. Add the potato mixture and press down into the pan. Fry for a few minutes until the underneath is golden brown, then place in the oven and cook for 8-10 minutes (until the potato is cooked through).

Enjoy .

variations can be made - try adding apple/leek/parsnip/sweet potato - i love experimenting with recipes

[CointreauVersial]

Dauphinois potatoes - slice thinly, layer in a shallow dish with some crushed garlic, salt, pepper and grated cheese if you like. Pour on plenty of cream, into the oven until soft. Mmmmmmm........

[DoFliesHaveKnees]

Cullen Skink

potatoes
onion
smoked haddock
evaporated milk
cream
salt and pepper to taste

Chop an onion and soften in a little butter. Peel and chop the potatoes into chunks and add to the onions. Add enough water to just about cover the potatoes. Boil until potatoes cooked then add a tin of evaporated milk. Add 2 fillets of smoked haddock (undyed) and simmer until fish flakes easily. Add some cream until reaches desired thickness.

Enjoy!

[Belo]

I like Gordon Ramsey's crushed potatoes.

You boil new potatoes. Drain then, and then shake the pan (lid on!) so that they're partialy mashed. Then you add in a vinagrette (olive oil, crushed garlic, red vine vinegar and dijon mustard) and some chopped spring onions. Give it another stir and you're done.

It goes really nicely with roast or grilled fish, or pork chops.

[newbeemummy]

I love this recipe as it's great with a formal meal where you can do individual pots for everyone, or for a big BBQ.


Easy Cheesy Potato Bake

Thinly slice about 4-5 potatoes, and 3-4 medium onions.
Loosely layer these in a over proof dish, first a layer of potatoes and then a layer of onions. Keep going until you either run out or fill the dish.

Mix together a packet of powdered instant brown onion soup (Ainsley Harriet currently does a nice cheapish one)and a tub of single cream (cream quantity depends on the size of the dish you are doing but 500ml is normally enough for a family of 4)(feel free to add a bit of milk to either reduce the fat content or make the cream go a bit further, or go for thicker cream for a truly decedent meal)

Pour the soup/cream mixture over the potatoes and onions.

Give the bowl a little shake and a tap to make sure the cream gets to the bottom.

Cover with grated cheese of your choosing (mature cheddar is my favourite)

If you want a crunchy topping lightly sprinkle on a few breadcrumbs.
If you want a stronger savoury taste, sprinkle a bit of Aromat on the top.

Chuck it in the oven at about 180 for at least 40 minutes.

Use a long knife to stab it in the middle to make sure the potatoes are cooked all the way through.

[Ragwort]

These recipes are all so yummy - feel like making myself a great big potato bake type dish for my lunch (sat here alone feeling greedy .)

[funtimewincies]

Bring back cheap and easy Bubble and Squeak !

1. Heat some veg/olive oil in a frying pan and soften some onion and garlic. I also often add bacon or chorizo to tart it up a bit.
   
2. Add left-over mashed/boiled/roast (well any really ) potatoes with leftover veg (sprouts and cabbage are best, honestly). While it's cooking, squash it down so that that potatoes catch and go all crispy on the bottom of the pan.
   
3. Eat with a sprinkling of cheese and/or brown sauce.
   
   

[Carnival]

Ooh, I know this is very basic, but I just LOVE baked potaoes with cheese and beans. Another, again simple, favourite in our house is to part bake a baking potato in the microwave, let cool slightly, then cut into big wedges and shallow fry - yum, want them now.

[melandtony]

i like to make sweade , carrot and potatoe mash. its a great way to hide the veg and the kids really love it with beefy gravy :)

[jbung]

Patatas Bravas

Chop waxy or new potatoes into chunks and add to a roasting tray with a drizzle of olive oil, salt and pepper.
Cook for 10 mins in a hot oven until they start to colour.
Add a tin of chopped tomatoes, chopped garlic and chilli and a pinch of smoked paprika.
Cook for a further 30 minutes or until potatoes are soft.

[ChutesTooNarrow]

Made this for lunch earlier for myself and DS.

Potato, chickpea and spinach curry

Dice 1 onion, finely chop a clove or 2 of garlic and gently fry in a teaspoon of oil.

Chop 2 or 3 peeled potatoes into 1cm sized pieces. Add to the onions and continue to gently fry.

Next for spices - I am a tip in and taste person so I am guessing at quantities - 1/2 teaspoon each of cumin, coriander, garam masala. Bit of black pepper. A shake of dried mango powder is also nice but not essential.

Add 1 tin of drained chickpeas, two generous handfuls of spinach, a tin of tomatoes. Stir.

Let simmer for 20-30 mins, topping up with a bit of water if required. Serve with Rice, or on toast if you are like me a little haphazard at keeping the kitchen essentials stocked up.

[dweezle]

3 small potatoes 9skins on) per person, Rub with olive oil, then sprinkle over salt. Bake until cooked through, split open and top with herbed cream cheese. Further 5 mons in oven before serving. Great at barbecues.

[FannyPriceless]

OK, I am now going to be incredibly generous and share the secret of my brilliant potato dauphinoise. You will not taste better, ever.

1. Use WAXY potatoes. I use charlottes.
   
2. Get a deep, thick-sided oven dish and rub butter over the surface.
   
3. Peel and very thinly slice lots and lots of potatoes. I use a mandolin. You need lots of potatoes. Very thin slices.
   
4. Start layering potato slices in the dish and every couple of layers grate a little nutmeg, scatter some tiny slices of garlic and sprinkle with S&P.
   
5. Keep layering until it is at least 5 cm deep. It has to be deep.
   
6. Mix together equal quantities of double cream and chicken stock, and pour over until just level with the top of the potatoes.
   
7. Cover dish with foil and cook at no more than 180 C for up to an hour, then remove foil and cook for another 20-30 mins or so until it looks perfect.
   
8. Allow to rest in a warm place before slicing and serving. If you don't it will be a sloppy mess and the layers will slide all over the place instead of staying together.
   
9. Sit back and prepare for compliments / declarations of undying devotion.

[Soosieboo]

My version of Duchess potatoes
Peel and thinnly slice 2 large pototoes
Peel and thinly slice medium onion.
Layer the pototoes and onions in a greased ovenproof dish. Season layers as you go with salt and pepper.
Mix 5 fluid ounces of double cream with 2-3 fluid ounces of milk. Pour mixture over potatoes.
Cover with lid or cling film and cook on defrost (or medium) in the microwave for 12 mins.
Remove lid and test if potatoes are soft. If not soft cook for a further couple of minutes.
If you like you can then sprinkle with cheese and breadcrumbs and place in a hot oven for 10 mins.

[polly321]

Hommity Pie.........
Back a pastry case and put to one side.
Cook a bag of new potatoes with the skins on, fry loads of onion, grate heaps of cheese and chop some parsley.
Drain cooked potaoes, cut, do not mash, add the rest of the ingredients and fill pie case, top with some more grated cheese and put in the oven.
I havent found anyone who does not like this, serve with salad or baked beans, enjoy

[julieef]

Cheese and potato pie

Boil Potatos and onions in a saucepan
When boiled mash then with some butter and milk.
grate some cheese, enough to taste and mash 3/4 of it into the potato mix.
Put into an oven proof dish, sprinkle the remaining grated cheese on top.
Cut up some tomatos into Julienne style and put on top.
bake in the oven until the cheese on top in bubbling.
ENJOY