A call for recipes

[ewt]

I've had a windfall in the form of 16kg of baking potatoes of various quality. This is exciting.

I've been spending a LOT more time at Trinity the past few weeks, with the result that I've been getting coursework done and handed in, without having to pull any serious all-nighters. This is not as exciting, but it is still good. However, I am a disorganised ewt and have not quite got the hang of bringing my lunch with me in the morning, and this is getting expensive - because when I'm starving, thrift goes out the window and I buy whatever seems like a really good idea at the time (expensive salad from M&S with expensive smoothie things, or pies from the pie shop - cheaper but with only two veggie pies I can't eat there every day!).

I want to attempt to remedy my lunch problem in part with these potatoes. So, I need potato recipes that can be prepared in advance and eaten cold.

Forgot to post this earlier, oops!

EDIT: People have asked me about my dietary requirements.

In theory, I do not eat pork or shellfish. and do not combine meat products (excluding fish) with dairy products.

In practise, I also do not eat chicken or beef or lamb when preparing food at home, as I have no meaty dishes.

I love dairy produce! Especially the full-fat stuff.

The easiest way to think of my diet, for most people, is going to be 'lacto-ovo-vegetarian plus fish', but I'm also pretty good at making substitutions for things like sausages and chicken, so if you have a recipe which is TEH GOOD except it has bacon bits, let me know anyway and I might be able to do it a different way.

I'm not really supposed to have huge amounts of sugar.

I find mayonnaise, prepared mustard and salad cream seriously off-putting and do not eat them at all. Again, I'm not too bad with finding appropriate substitutes.

Comments

[devvie.livejournal.com]

Oh my friend from high schools Mom was from Germany and made this wonderful potato salad..basically just boiled potatoe, vinegar and onions..but I don't remember it...dang! <--cleaned up her language.

[pasdeschiens.livejournal.com]

I can't remember if you eat cheese or not.
If you do, then cold potato bake is surprisingly good (um, I'll check out a recipe, but basically, sliced potato + cheese + random herbs (+ cream), baked.

Cold roast taters = not bad either.

Mashed, on the other hand - not a big fan of, cold. Hrm.
I'll keep an eye out and maybe ask Mum some ideas. It will be useful for me too, as taters are cheap and if I can cook up a batch of "x" at the beginning of the week, I won't have to worry too much about food, when I'm on my own.
(PS: I was strolling through yr memories the other day & found yr soup recipe... I'm in love! Must try that!)

[mubeimmik.livejournal.com]

I don't mind cold mashed potatos, but my requirement for them is they have to have lots and lots of garlic in them! Heh

Something like this, maybe?

[mubeimmik.livejournal.com]

Tato Salad

Ingridients:
6 each potatoe, large
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 each onion, minced
3 tablespoon vinegar
1/2 teaspoon mustard, prepared
1 teaspoon sugar
2 teaspoon dill seed
Preparation:
Potatoes should be peeled and quartered. In medium saucepan cook potatoes in boiling salted water until tender. Drain, reserving 3/4 cup of potato water. Dice potatoes. Add oil and minced onion; toss gently. In small saucepan bring the 3/4 cup potato water to a boil; pour over potatoes and onion. Keep at room temperature for 2 to 3 hours. Stir in vinegar, mustard, sugar, and dillseed. Potato salad will be creamy. Serve at room temperature.

Potato soup also comes to mind, but I don't know how delicious that would be cold. Perhaps you could put it in a thermos? I just chop up into chunks 2-3 potatos, some onion, and celery. Add a bit of salt, put water in halfway covering the potatos, and milk the rest of the way (I do recall you do milk, right?). Then add just a touch of butter, and let it boil until the potatos are soft. You can put clams in too for a yummy variation. We put sausage/bacon/ham in, but that's probably not good for you *L*

If I think of something else, I'll comment again.

Re: Something like this, maybe?

[mubeimmik.livejournal.com]

http://www.therecipebox.com/members/box/soup/sou0125.htm Cold potato soup, who'd have thought?

Re: Something like this, maybe?

[ewtikins.livejournal.com]

The thermos I have is not likely to be really great for thick soups as it has a fairly narrow mouth, and I'm not really a thin-soup person, but it's worth a try. If I start finding it's impossible to eat the cold potatoes then I may invest in a wide-mouth thermos that I could just chuck potatoes and butter and cheese into.

MMMM cheese.

[pasdeschiens.livejournal.com]

As promised, I asked Mum... who has a potato cookbook!

I'll have a look through and let you know what's in there, her main suggestion (pre-browsing book) was mock fish or potato cakes - tater, egg, corn... can add tuna...
Again, I can't remember what you do or don't eat, lemme know and I'll find things specifically for you :)

What I eat

[ewtikins.livejournal.com]

I have now edited the entry to include a brief description of what I eat.

Potatoes

[(Anonymous)]

Mmmmmmmm- my favourite veggie!!! Do you remember our "vegetable feeds" which always included a good portion of boiled taters, slathered in butter and salt and pepper. Do you have freezing capabilities? If you make things like scalloped taters, tater soups, tater & leek soups, then you could freeze them in smaller portions for use at suppertime, or if you have access to a microwave, nuke them at lunch. It would seem that storage of raw taters would be your biggest problem. Remember, unless they get really wrinkled and hairy and rooty, and shrunken in they can still be used. Mmmmmmmm - I love taters!
Mum

Re: Potatoes

[ewtikins.livejournal.com]

I have memories of microwave re-heated boiled potatoes going grey at the edges, yuck. I still don't really like the plain boiled ones much...

I have a small amount of freezer space; not much.

I am very fond of baked potatoes with various toppings and am planning to have these for supper a few times a week.

I don't have access to a microwave at lunch, so I am looking for things to eat cold. Since I'm not a huge fan of sandwiches and I have so many potatoes to eat I figured it would be worth asking about cold potato recipes.

The storage really isn't a huge problem - they will keep for ages in a cool dark well-ventilated area. My room is pretty cold and draughty, and I have lots of stacking plastic vegetables boxes with holes in them like the greengrocers use - someone keeps getting flats of mushrooms and then throwing the boxes in the bin, and I keep taking the boxes because they are the perfect size to fit inside my wardrobe. So, I have lined those with newspaper and put all the potatoes in. Some of them are going a bit green at one end, or have big cuts on them (none look really badly rotten, just dirty), so I put those ones at the top so that I use them first. I covered the stack of boxes with a sarong folded over a few times to keep them in the dark so they don't get any ideas about growing; I might replace it with a heavier cloth or a big black sack.

[pfy.livejournal.com]

I'm sure cold mashed potato can't be bad, especially if you put lots of yummy stuff in it when you mash it (e.g. salt, pepper, onion, random herbs, and as much random dairy produce as you can find). Even better, mashed potato can't get squished in your bag, because it's already mashed.

Mashed potato is not really a meal in itself, though. Maybe you could incorporate cheese and random veg (peas?) into this somewhere too. Also, would tuna and potato salad work? (tuna, chopped boiled potatoes, soured cream, and spring onions)

[justinep.livejournal.com]

mashed potato can't get squished in your bag, because it's already mashed
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Speaking from experience, mushy things can create huge mess if you're a bit chaotic and sometimes lean or sit on your bag or put it down at odd angles on various forms of transport. I'm sure most grown-ups don't have this problem though :(

would tuna and potato salad work? (tuna, chopped boiled potatoes, soured cream, and spring onions)

I often buy lunch from Boots (for various reasons) and iirc they do a nice salade nicoise (sp?!) which has quartered baby new potatoes (boiled). It's really, really nice. A quick look for recipes found me this one (http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/recipe_views/views/15533) and a few others that might also be interesting (http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/find/results?threshold=4350&search=nicoise&search2=potato) on the ever wonderful Epicurious.

Oh, and by the way Here are some recipes on a pretty site (http://www.idahopotato.com/recipe_display.php?key=%searchmain%). No idea if the recipes are nice but there are so many I would hope at least one would be inspiring. Also, even if none fit the current purpose, not only is the side amusing it has potentially Pesachdik recipes (eg Potato lasagne (http://www.idahopotato.com/recipe_search_detail.php?id=203) (well, as I said - it's entertaining :) )

Love,

Bun

Grey ones

[(Anonymous)]

Potatoes in southern Ontario tend not to get grey at the edges, or perhaps it's because I no longer nuke fresh ones as I remember being turned off by the greyness caused by the microwave. So no more yucky grey things begin recycled at supper time. Sounds as though you have the storage issue all worked out. How about plain, raw potatoes with salt? They are very crunchy. Ever tried them that way?
Mum

Re: Grey ones

[ewtikins.livejournal.com]

Yes, I too am a fan of raw potatoes, but I tend to prefer the smaller ones for that and these are all huge ones. Also, once they've started to go green, even a little, they taste absolutely revolting raw.

Re: Grey ones

[justinep.livejournal.com]

Woah! Eating raw potatoes!

Hrm, come to think of it, I've eaten bits. I invariably eat little bits of whatever I chop. I feel a bit embarrassed and guilty but (a) Henderson's restaurant serves everything raw, including broccoli and other things most people only eat cooked (b) Jamie Oliver insisted his little recruits ate raw fish because your raw ingredients have to be nice (or something like that)

Still, when I think of eating potatoes I think of (a) a sci-fi book where our hero was starving and dug up raw potatoes and ate them (b) reading that eating raw potatoes is really bad for you (in large quantities) because they have evil enzymes, like pineapple does.

Next time I have some raw potato in front of me I'll nibble a bigger bit and think of you both :)

Re: Grey ones

[ewtikins.livejournal.com]

Raw broccoli is clearly much yummier than cooked broccoli. Do people only eat this cooked?

I thought pineapple had good enzymes that help with digestion. Value judgements and dietary enzymes are probably going to be a confusing combination no matter what, though.

I know raw green potatoes are pretty nasty but wouldn't want to eat them as they taste disgusting.

Re: Grey ones

[justinep.livejournal.com]

Raw broccoli is clearly much yummier than cooked broccoli.

On the whole I agree, although broccoli au gratin etc etc rock.

Do people only eat this cooked?

Yes.

I thought pineapple had good enzymes that help with digestion. Value judgements and dietary enzymes are probably going to be a confusing combination no matter what, though.

Heh. Indeed. I actually really want to reread the book that gave me part of the idea about potatoes soon, so I may get back to you on this one :)

I know raw green potatoes are pretty nasty but wouldn't want to eat them as they taste disgusting.

Once more going back to my heuristics about vegetables : I was under the impression that green potatoes were Extremely Bad For You and Verging On Poisonous. I cut off all green parts and if the whole potato is a bit on the green side I vacillate. If I'm cooking for other people I am much more careful as few people have my iron-clad stomach.

I need to do some research on this 'unhealthy potato' business. I will update you on my findings :)