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

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

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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.