How many things can you do with potatoes.

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Mashed potatoes mixed with flour and then baked made good cheap cakes which you can flavour with pretty much anything savoury, eg cheese, herbs, spices, worcestershire sauce, mustard. Or you can use it as a base for pizza.

Pretani

I've just started to make my own potatoe farls. I followed this recipe and they've turned out real nice, better than the supermarket ones. They're an important part of the traditional Ulster Fry. Here's another link with visual aids.

Lalaladybird

Asda are selling the 2.5kg bags of smartprice potatoes for 25p so I bought 2. I wouldn't normally get through so many potatoes in one week just for the 2 of us (+ baby) but I bought 2 because they were so cheap :rolleyes:. What can I do with them to make sure I use them up. I've frozen a batch of mashed potatoes. I made salmon fishcakes last night for dinner with some and I make a creamy carrot soup which used a couple. But still loads left. What is the best way to store them so they don't sprout and what else can I make with them that I could freeze, other than loads of mash?:rotfl:

thriftlady_2

Potatoes will store for ages. I have a 20 kg sack in my garage which will last until Christmas I should think. However they are muddy spuds and in a proper paper sack. Yours might not last as long but if you keep them somewhere cool and dark they should be OK.

Cornishpixie_2

You could do some potato cakes: 8oz S.R. flour, 1 tsp salt, Rub in 3oz marg to flour and salt. Mix in 6oz mashed potato(warmed in micro, if cold). 2 1/2 fluid oz milk.
Roll out into rounds, sprinkle with sesame seeds/ cheese optional, but nice. pepper, and herbs. Gas 8 20/30 mins.

Savoury meat roll.
Pastry plain flour 12oz,
good pinch of salt
3oz butter
about 8 tablespoons ice cold water.

Filling
1lb cold mash potato
4oz raw minced beef/ or left over joint blitzed
1 large onion(chopped and softened in microwave)
1 or 2 raw sausages
plenty seasoning.

Make pastry. Chill in fridge.
throw all ingredients into a bowl and mix. get hands in and mix.
Roll out pastry in large rectangle.
spread cold filling all over, using your hands.
Leave about 1/2 inch gap around the edges.
As you look at it fold left and right borders oto filling.
Then roll away like a swiss roll. Can add whatever you like to filling.
Once cold you can slice and eat cold or freeze.
Thanks to the people on Weezils wonderful challenge:D
Could do wedges. Sure there's a whole website on potato receipes, could try goggle. Also sure pots will last quite a while.:D

canidothis

HI there

If your freezer big enough, you could par poil potatoes toss in some oil and pop into a freezer bag....then you will have ready-to-roast spuddies, and you could do the same with some potatoe wedges.:D

mystery07

Hi all,

Any ideas for a novice cook to use potatoes for?! I have a 4KG bag that my Grandad kindly bought me & since I'm trying to cut back my grocery spend until xmas, Ive been trying to put them into my meal plans, but getting sick of baked potatoes & casseroles!

I only have oven/hob (no fryer), is it possible to make home made chips/rosstis/wedges with just an oven? And how exactly? Like I said a novice!

Any other suggestions? I was thinking I might make HM shepards pie, but cant find the recipes, I'm sure I've seen loads on here before?

mrscruffy

Soup!

1) Big pot
2) Add chopped potatoes, water/stock, pulses, other veg
3) Boil
4) Puree

bellrooster

hiya

you can make chips and wedges

cut your potatoes into chunks and then par boil them

in the mean time heat some veggie or sunflower oil in a roasting dish in the oven, at about 220 degrees, when the pre cut potatoes has par boiled and dried slightly, put it in your pre heated roasting dish..

yummy chips or wedges

mystery07

mrscruffy wrote: »

Soup!

1) Big pot
2) Add chopped potatoes, water/stock, pulses, other veg
3) Boil
4) Puree

That sounds nice actually, never made HM soup! But I'd need a blender to Puree & I don't have one!

If I bought a hand blender would that do the job?