Chips

[Alain Maréchal]

Have a look at this, & eat your words
http://www.amazon.co.uk/In-Praise-Po...9&sr=1-1-spell

Not a chance - everybody is frantically trying to find elaborate ways of making a basically unappetising tuber interesting, whereas there are so many plants that are much more interesting, and need little disguise, just simple preparation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Van_Gogh_-_Die_Kartoffelesser2.jpeg#file

all having a wonderful time aren't they?

[Ferretfancy]

Not a chance - everybody is frantically trying to find elaborate ways of making a basically unappetising tuber interesting, whereas there are so many plants that are much more interesting, and need little disguise, just simple preparation.

No! No! There's nothing nicer than well minted Jersey Royals with a generous dollop of butter!

[MrGongGong]

Pink fir apples
The "jersey royal" marketing ploy doesn't fool me
try growing International Kidney oh look they are the same but without the hype and mileage

http://www.marshalls-seeds.co.uk/potato-international-kidney-pid1892.html

[Alain Maréchal]

No! No! There's nothing nicer than well minted Jersey Royals with a generous dollop of butter!

In other words you're suggesting that the potatoes have to be disguised with herbs and fat!

[Nick Armstrong]

In other words you're suggesting that the potatoes have to be disguised with herbs and fat!

Don't you ever cook anything using fat or oil, or with seasoning or herbs?!

[Alain Maréchal]

Don't you ever cook anything using fat or oil, or with seasoning or herbs?!

Indeed I do, but only to enhance the flavour, not to create flavour that is not inherent in the original vegetable. (inherent in - can I say that or is it tautologous ?)

[teamsaint]

Does deep fat frying not enhance the flavour of a raw potato?

[Nick Armstrong]

Does deep fat frying not enhance the flavour of a raw potato?

I wouldn't bother, teams. M Maréchal clearly has a palate so attuned only to the admittedly delicious complexities of Madame Maréchale's Parisian sauces, that the simple and innocent taste of the humble 'pomme de terre' does not register with him.

Il fait comprendre et non pas condamner !

[Flosshilde]

I wouldn't bother, teams. M Maréchal clearly has a palate so attuned only to the admittedly delicious complexities of Madame Maréchale's Parisian sauces, that the simple and innocent taste of the humble 'pomme de terre' does not register with him.

Il fait comprendre et non pas condamner !

One wonders what other simple pleasures he spurns, his palate sated by Parisian sophistication.

[Alain Maréchal]

Nothing highly attuned about my palate, I assure you, and now I've given up work I do most of the cooking. Fortunately I can use the excuse of weight reduction to banish earth apples!

I recall once in my faltering german confusing erd apfel with pferd apfel, to much amusement (but then as the expression has it, the german sense of humour is no laughing matter).

Il faut comprendre et non pas condamner - perhaps a good motto for these boards, but it's hard to break the habit of a lifetime!

[amateur51]

As a child, one of my delights was to go out with my father when he was lifting the first row of early new potatoes. They always seemed to appear like magic under his fork and I loved the smell of the earth & watching the wriggling worms too.

Back inside, scrubbed and boiled and then slathered in butter, what a treat these potatoes were. Truly, even now their unique flavour provide my madelaine moment

[vinteuil]

Back inside, scrubbed and boiled and then slathered in butter....:

... curious notions of child care, them Welsh. Were the NSPCC called?

[amateur51]

... curious notions of child care, them Welsh. Were the NSPCC called?

I wondering which Herbert would take that phrase 'out of context' as our politicians are fond of saying

[Nick Armstrong]

Il faut comprendre et non pas condamner - perhaps a good motto for these boards, but it's hard to break the habit of a lifetime!

A counsel of perfection, I readily concede!

[vinteuil]

Il fait comprendre et non pas condamner !

... I seldom condemn. Tho' I have been known to contemn...