How many things can you do with potatoes.

BitterAndTwisted

Sauteed cold boiled potatoes sliced up and fried with onion, or doused in some whipped up eggs with some chopped bacon. MMMMMM

PasturesNew

You can use potato to make a potato pastry, which can then be used as a pizza base or even a pie topping/base.
http://www.greenchronicle.com/basics/potato_pastry.htm

Here's a shortcrust pastry recipe: http://www.celtnet.org.uk/recipes/miscellaneous/fetch-recipe.php?rid=misc-potato-shortcrust-pastry

If you like stews, you can make potato dumplings, here's an example recipe:
http://www.household-management.com/cookbook/Hungarian-Beef-Goulash-With-Potato-Dumplings.html to show you how that fits together, but you can use it for any stew.

Apart from suggestions from the other posters, you could make:
- potato salad
- home made crisps
- veggie scotch eggs (hard boiled egg, surround it with mash, affix breadcrumbs, fry/bake

And check out this spud website: http://www.britishpotatoes.co.uk/

Edit: Just found this recipe for Potato & Lemon Cheesecakes http://www.britishpotatoes.co.uk/potato-and-lemon-cheesecakes/

loobyloo0302

Throw some my way, I've a massive craving for raw potato at the moment - the muddier the better!!!

ubamother

if you parboil then par-roast potatoes, they freeze very well and you can finish off roasting them from frozen. You do need to make sure they are cooked through when par-roasting them otherwise the undercooked bits can go black when frozen. Just roast enough to cook but not enough to colour fully

Lula-Hula

Try this, it's delicious & very easy to make

Cheesy Potato Corn Bake

1 1/2 lbs of potatoes
1 large onion
1 large tin of sweetcorn
1 egg - beaten
6 oz cheddar cheese
1 tsp marmite (optional as for flavour)
1/2 pint of water
seasoning
4tbsp chopped parsley

Peel & chop potatoes into cubes, peel & chop onion & put in pan with the water, add marmite or stock cube if required but I dont bother, it's tasty enough.
Bring to the boil & cover & simmer until all water absorbed & potato soft.
Remove from heat & mash together, then mix in the parsley, 3/4 of the cheese, the sweetcorn & the egg.
Put the mix into an oven dish, sprinkle the rest of the cheese on top & bake for about 20 minutes or until the cheese melted & beginning to brown.

Eat

My kids love it with baked beans on the side.
Ingredients dont need to be exact, whatever you have available.

I also reheat it in the microwave but add a small blob of butter as it can be a bit dry as a leftover.

vitamin_joe

some great suggestions here- I second dauphinois potatoes, and potato and leek soup, and tandraig's post made me drool at the mouth

nothing much to add except maybe try a bit of bubble and squeak. It's dead easy, and great comfort food.

I don't know if you can freeze it (in the mash-mixture stage) but I don't see why not.

edit- added to short thread about using up potatoes- threads now merged.

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years ago (late 1960s) when my brood were small and my purse even smaller I used to layer thinly sliced potato with cheese and very thinly sliced onion alternately and mix up an oxo cube with about a quarter pint of water and pour over the lot and bung in the oven .Kids would wolf it down on 'hard up Thursday'(day before payday) ,also made 'odds and sods pie which was basically a short pastry lined tin with anything I could find to put in it from the fridge.maybe a couple of sausages browned with a chopped up onion and some mushrooms all sliced up and topped off with mashed potato.again a tummy filler and in the early 1970s when the powercuts were on and I only had electricity for three hours at a time it was handy as I'd cook it and double wrap it in foil to try and keep it warm for when the children came out of school as the lights always seemed to go at 3.00.p.m. so it was still warm at 3.30 so they had to scoff it down quickly by candlelight .Oh the joys of trying to cope in an all electric house with a 5 & 7 year old and no electricity.Still we managed

jackieglasgow

I posted this a while ago for using up smash, but it's perfect with fresh tatties - Scottish Macaroon. It's a sweet made with icing sugar and potato and covered in chocolate and toasted coconut. nomnomnom as Weezl would say! Also you can make potato scones, potato cakes - there was a thread here somewhere but I can't find it.

http://shirlsbaking.blogspot.com/2005/12/scottish-macaroon-bars.html

this is one of many recipes available online for our macaroon bars

BitterAndTwisted

The mention of Scottish reminded me of a dish my mother used to make when we were kids: Stovies, but her method was made with sausages.

Brown whole sausages and chopped onions in a pan (2 sausages per person in our house) with a tablespoon of oil (Mum used dripping). Add sliced potatoes and cover with stock or water. Bring to the boil and simmer v gently for about 20 minutes. You can add a bit of Marmite or Bovril if it's bit too bland for you.

I haven't eaten Stovies in over 20 years since I went veggie but I have a hankering now

angie_baby

i used this recipe after reading about it in the old style boards

http://italianfood.about.com/od/gnocchi/a/aa010298.htm

We just had them for lunch with some wilted spinach, melted butter, black pepper and the last of the parmesan cheese.

I read on another thread that someone put them in stew, sounds like they would be a really nice. Something different to dumplings or potatoes.

I did steam the pots too, as this was the first time of making them i dont know the difference between boiling them. And i think i used plain flour, yep, i did.

When i made them i didnt bother using a cheese grater, just dipped a fork in the flour and got Joe to press the tops gently. I open froze the leftovers and then sprinkled a little more flour over and bagged up, they were still pretty seperate.
When we have those i will just put them in frozen rather than waiting on them to defrost.

I shamefuly cant find the thread i was reading on here the other day!