101 ways to cook a spud

Andy Hamilton · Sat Mar 18, 2006 9:16 pm

Lets get some of the obvious out of the way first

1. Mash
2. Chips
3. Boiled
4. Steamed
5. roast
6. Jacket potato

and then onto the not so obvious

7. potato pancakes

blimey I am feeling a bit thick today that is all I can think of.

Shirley · Post: # 14626Post **Shirley** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 10:05 pm

8. gnocchi
9. potato croquettes
10. rosti potato

Shirley · Post: # 14627Post **Shirley** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 10:09 pm

11. ooh and cut into thick wedges and baked in a greaseproof paper bag - ok, not good to waste paper but it does make the oven easier to clean

12. dauphinoise potatoes

13. boiled in their skins and roughly mashed with creme fraiche and garlic

14. potato prints...

15. cleaning a rusty knife

Shirley · Post: # 14628Post **Shirley** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 10:11 pm

16. useful if you have oversalted a dish... bung a whole potato in it and simmer til cooked then remove the potato. Food is then less salty.

Shirley · Post: # 14633Post **Shirley** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 10:27 pm

As you can see, I can't read properly......

ways to cook a potato...

well... after cleaning your rusty knife with a bit of the potato, you could use the other part of the potato to make a potato hash.

After using the potatoes to make prints with (using beetroot juice as the edible paint) you could mash and then pipe the potato into rosettes - duchesse potato style !!

nick · Post: # 14643Post **nick** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 12:44 am

wrap whole washed potatoes in foil and bury (only a little) in hot coals. cook time varies according to how big the potatoes are. serve with butter.

albert onglebod · Sun Mar 19, 2006 11:11 am

boil and mash then use a flour to top a pie (potato flour popular in WW2)
slice very thinly and fry for home made crisps

Millymollymandy · Sun Mar 19, 2006 12:22 pm

Potato curry!

ina · Post: # 14713Post **ina** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 2:22 pm

potato scones

soup

potato sponge cake

potato roll (filled with jam)

fried potatoes German style (left-over cooked potatoes, sliced and fried with chopped onions and, if you like, chopped bacon)

potato dumplings

Wormella · Post: # 14825Post **Wormella** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 9:47 am

sauteud
patatas bravas

Millymollymandy · Mon Mar 20, 2006 12:13 pm

Goodness me, all these fancy foreign things and no-one has thought of

BUBBLE AND SQUEAK!!!!!

Shirley · Post: # 14840Post **Shirley** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 1:17 pm

yummy!!!

or....

french fries :)

Libby · Post: # 14846Post **Libby** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 2:40 pm

Potato stuffing

And a good one for hedgewizard to use up some of those eggs

Spanish omlette/tortilla

Andy Hamilton · Mon Mar 20, 2006 6:14 pm

Wormella wrote:sauteud
patatas bravas

what is patatas bravas?

32. potato waffles, I guess you need a waffle iron to make these though.
33. Potato Croquettes

ina · Post: # 14855Post **ina** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 6:34 pm

Andy Hamilton wrote: what is patatas bravas?

Very brave spuds?

I think I gave two more German potato recipes for potatoes in the recipe section:

Kartoffelpuffer (similar to Roesti, but mixed with an egg, and eaten with apple sauce)

Quarkkeulchen (mashed potatoes mixed with egg and quark, and fried as rissoles)

potato and cheese cakes

potato and leek bake (and countless variations of this, if you want to get to 101 quickly!)

Did we have hash browns?