How many things can you do with potatoes.

mrs_tooti-frooti

Well, me mams bought us a big bag of potatoes - I don't know what the weight of it is, but I can't lift it!!

I want to do a bit of batch potato cooking but I'm unsure what I can freeze/par boil etc.

Where do I start????

If I mash some of them, do I put the butter in before I freeze it or just mash the spuds up? And when I come to use the frozen mash, whats the best way to reheat it? Same with roasties, how do I reheat them.

Can I freeze boiled potatoes as well?

Oooh, so many questions, and all of them seem daft!!:o

If you have any advice I would really appreciate it.

Thanks

dawkins

This site has loads of ideas: http://www.ellenskitchen.com/bigpots/oamc/potatoes.html

I've done the frozen hash browns and they turned out great. Hope this helps!

Pretani

I usually cook the potatoes as I use them. less hastle in havuing to defrost them and a half hundred weight bag lasts a few weeks.

Debt_Free_Chick

Can't you just store some of them? In a paper sack in a cool dry place e.g. a garage or shed?

buxtonrabbitgreen

Pretani wrote: »

I usually cook the potatoes as I use them. less hastle in havuing to defrost them and a half hundred weight bag lasts a few weeks.

I do that too. But it depends if you have somewhere cool and dark to keep them. I keep mine in the coal house. I have just bought a 56lb bag for £6.50 from the farm shop and they are lovely big potatoes. I have no idea about freezing them though.

Penelope_Penguin

Hi there :beer: We have a long thread on using potatoes; I'll add this one to keep ideas together

Penny. x

lilibeth

buxtonrabbitgreen wrote: »

I do that too. But it depends if you have somewhere cool and dark to keep them. I keep mine in the coal house. I have just bought a 56lb bag for £6.50 from the farm shop and they are lovely big potatoes. I have no idea about freezing them though.

You need to cook or par cook them first. Or they will go icky.

You have two choices you can par cook them let them cool down and freeze them in a freezer bag.
Or
You can cook them up then freeze them, hashbrowns, roasties, soup, mash all work well. Just have a skim through this thread the lovely Miss Penguin has relocated you to. There are loads of recipes.

Personally I leave them in their skins wash and cut out any iffy bits.
Then I nuke them in the microwave in groups of four or five for ten minutes.
Then leave them to cool and dry out while I do their comrades.

Then I stick them in bags in the freezer with the air sucked out of the end with a straw.

They make the fluffiest tatties in jackets ever when I go to use them.

beaujolais-nouveau

It cost UKP 10.50. The last time I did this was when I was a poor student, more than 30 years ago.

Watching the DOW plummet on the BBC markets ticker, and waiting the outcome of the auction of Lehman Brothers' CDOs, I am hoping that this bag of spuds will see me through the coming apocalypse.

parsonswife8

beaujolais-nouveau wrote: »

It cost UKP 10.50. The last time I did this was when I was a poor student, more than 30 years ago.

Watching the DOW plummet on the BBC markets ticker, and waiting the outcome of the auction of Lehman Brothers' CDOs, I am hoping that this bag of spuds will see me through the coming apocalypse.

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Well done! Keep them in a nice dry, cool place in the dark so they don't turn green. I could live on spuds.

Penelope_Penguin

beaujolais-nouveau wrote: »

It cost UKP 10.50. The last time I did this was when I was a poor student, more than 30 years ago.

Watching the DOW plummet on the BBC markets ticker, and waiting the outcome of the auction of Lehman Brothers' CDOs, I am hoping that this bag of spuds will see me through the coming apocalypse.

Hopefully, no apocalypse will be forthcoming

I'll add this to the existing potatoes thread so that you have plenty of ideas what to do with them

Penny. x