I enjoy mashed, with plenty of real butter
Stuffed potatoes are a substantial meal, my favourite being Bacon and egg. Hard boiled egg, chopped, cooked bacon, spring onions, sour cream, swiss cheese
Baked, with baked parsnip and pumpkin
Potato cakes - Rosti style (grated, formed into patties, with extras and fried.)
Potato and Leek soup
Potato and egg salad
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Do you not have chips? I prefer to grill them. Just chopping up whole potatoes into chunky pieces and grilling with a little good oil.
Fried potatoes are very nice too. you just slice cooled cooked potatoes into thin pieces as you would for say dauphinois and then fry in butter or another fat. They taste best friend in a little butter. The potatoes should be the firm type. You can fry them in skins too. It’s much quicker than fancier wedges but probably less healthy.
fried potato cakes are also good but you have to remove the water from them first which is a chore. Ikea do a great frozen version which is ready in a jiffy.
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Purely as a health thing you can juice them raw, skins and all. I sometimes combine one with celery, carrots, tomatoes, apple and a little root ginger in the masticating juicer.
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Hi Annie, do you mean potato cakes made with grated potato instead of pre cooked mash. It’s easy to squeeze the water out.
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I always have so much trouble. I tried it with pre cooked mash and it’s just not the same texture and flavour
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I am pretty sure I read that there is something in raw potatoes that isn’t good for you
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not nice 
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I’ve just had a quick look online Annie, it’s all very positive from what I can see, really healthy stuff!
I could be missing something of course.
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I thought they were poisonous when uncooked
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Maybe your thinking of the green parts of potatoes, I think that they might be toxic 
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I mentioned somewhere the other day … I love smallish pots boiled on their skins smashed, glug of olive oil, roasted/baked
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yes but ok if cooked I think?
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I do the same with baby potatoes. Boil or steam in skins and then slice and put in with the roast.
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I’ve yet to try smashed small potatoes. We like to grow our own so there are always smaller ones left. They look quicker than mashing and would probably just need scrubbing for preparation.
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I’ve always been curious about colcannon - has anyone tried to make this Irish spud/cabbage delicacy?
Looking it up just now there is the original Colcannon with mash potatoes and cabbage, ulster version “champ” with mash potatoes and spring onions and then the Scottish version has it all, mash potatoes, cabbage and spring onions then baked in the oven with a bubbling cheese topping.
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I mix cold mashed potato with lentils and other chopped cooked vegetables, you can roll in flour and/or egg.
Then form into patties between your hands and lightly fry.
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I wonder if you can bake flourless potato bread like that by mixing in some yoghurt
I keep meaning to make some of these alternative breads, they all look so good on insta
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Man who boils potatoes and peas in the same pot is not hygenic
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