Suggestions for using up raw potatoes

[DIMPLES1]

I was a bit pissed when I placed the veg order with the farmer for our Xmas veg & still have a quarter sack left to use.

I've already OD'd on leek & potato soup. There is some space in the freezer, but not huge amounts.

What would you make?
What'd be best to make & freeze?

 

[Corax]

I have no idea whether it's possible, but I've recently been taken with the idea of finding a good recipe for hash-browns that I can then bung in the freezer.

 

[Sweetpea]

Aww come on, they are spuds and you can't use them up?
Mash, roasties, baked, sauteed - loads of dinners before they start sprouting.
My MIL bakes potatoes and freezes them. I always thought it was a bit odd but I'm not sure whether that's simply because I think she is a bit .... Well anyway, if they are baked and frozen you can always mash them or slice and saute them later.

 

[butchersapron]

Lib-dem exhaust pipes?

 

[purenarcotic]

Potato dauphinoise, vegetable soup (you can use a potato to thicken it, in fact most soups you can add a potato to them before blending to thicken), potato wedges, shepherd's pie, cottage pie, fish pie, hash brown, roasties. You could make curries with them and freeze it.

I am amazed you cannot find enough things to put them with to use it all up.

 

[Epona]

Blimey, potatoes only stay good for 3 or 4 days in my flat - too warm and humid for them.

Potato curry.

Also leek & potato soup freezes really well which was a bit of a surprise find considering neither leeks nor potatoes do very well in the freezer! You may have had enough of that at the moment, but it will be fine for a couple of months by which time you might fancy some again.

 

[stuff_it]

If you keep them in a paper sack in the pantry or other dark cool place they will last months. That's why they were so popular in the first place, they keep ages in the right conditions. My mates rents used to keep a sack in a cool cupboard in the single glazed lean to conservatory and the sack would last all winter.

 

[teuchter]

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[purenarcotic]

Blimey, potatoes only stay good for 3 or 4 days in my flat - too warm and humid for them.

You can pick up from Poundland sacks for potatoes and onions - whack your tatties in there and they keep for ages, a good few weeks.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I was a bit pissed when I placed the veg order with the farmer for our Xmas veg & still have a quarter sack left to use.

I've already OD'd on leek & potato soup. There is some space in the freezer, but not huge amounts.

What would you make?
What'd be best to make & freeze?

Julienne them.

 

[Sweetpea]

Julienne* them.

*posh word for chop em up

 

[Sweetpea]

After the 'Julienne' bit, fry them and bring them round to mine. I haven't been able to find Chipsticks for years.

 

[Yu_Gi_Oh]

Could you cook and mash loads before portioning it off and freezing it?

 

[Detroit City]

I was a bit pissed when I placed the veg order with the farmer for our Xmas veg & still have a quarter sack left to use.

I've already OD'd on leek & potato soup. There is some space in the freezer, but not huge amounts.

What would you make?
What'd be best to make & freeze?

there is a toy gun you can buy that uses raw potatos for bullets

 

[dessiato]

Quick google gave these three sites:
http://www.lovepotatoes.co.uk/recipes/
http://southernfood.about.com/cs/potatorecipes/a/potatoes_2.htm
http://www.potatorecipes.net/

Many of the recipes are freezable.

But if you intend to freeze only par cook the dish so that it doesn't come out over cooked when finishing prior to serving. It is, in essence what the food producers do. Remember to adjust cooking time when you use the food though.

 

[Epona]

If you keep them in a paper sack in the pantry or other dark cool place they will last months. That's why they were so popular in the first place, they keep ages in the right conditions. My mates rents used to keep a sack in a cool cupboard in the single glazed lean to conservatory and the sack would last all winter.

In case that was in response to my post, that's all very well if you have somewhere cool to put them. They most certainly do not last months in my warm upstairs flat, they start to turn into brown liquid in less than a week. Mind you some veg fare even worse - I can keep carrots in a cupboard 2 days at best before they are suffering badly, I have to keep most of my veg in the fridge or it doesn't stand a chance. Mind you there are benefits, I've not had to put the heating on yet!

purenarcotic - you've never been in my flat and I must inform you that you are talking complete bollocks, it's not as if I haven't tried that, I'm not a fucking idiot. It is simply too bloody warm in here!

 

[crustychick]

what about making some potato gnocci? you can probably freeze it afterwards too, for use later...

 

[Pickman's model]

Turn them into alcohol

 

[xes]

get a spud gun and have some lols

 

[Pickman's model]

get a spud gun and have some lols

Make a little mortar to shoot them out of and change your lols into LOLs

 

[xes]

I like the cut of your jib

 

[Cid]

Fish cakes freeze very well, and have frozen most of the stuff purenarcotic's list successfully (not tried wedges, hash browns or roasties).

Where do you fit a pantry in your van stuff_it?

 

[elfman]

Has anyone suggested potato painting yet?

 

[ShiftyBagLady]

Potato cakes with mustard, cheese and spring onion. Or rosemary and garlic potato cakes, they're nice too.
Make a fish pie or cottage pie or something, they freeze well too.

 

[teuchter]

In case that was in response to my post, that's all very well if you have somewhere cool to put them. They most certainly do not last months in my warm upstairs flat, they start to turn into brown liquid in less than a week. Mind you some veg fare even worse - I can keep carrots in a cupboard 2 days at best before they are suffering badly, I have to keep most of my veg in the fridge or it doesn't stand a chance. Mind you there are benefits, I've not had to put the heating on yet!

purenarcotic - you've never been in my flat and I must inform you that you are talking complete bollocks, it's not as if I haven't tried that, I'm not a fucking idiot. It is simply too bloody warm in here!

Then obviously the solution is to move flat.

 

[pogofish]

Make a little mortar to shoot them out of and change your lols into LOLs

We have a useful "how to make a tattie cannon" thread here somewhere.

 

[sojourner]

Mash - it freezes really well and you can use portions for cullen skink as well

 

[sojourner]

get a spud gun and have some lols

I used to fucking love my spud gun. They got withdrawn didn't they? Cos we kept blinding other kids with them or something...

 

[xes]

I used to fucking love my spud gun. They got withdrawn didn't they? Cos we kept blinding other kids with them or something...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Spud-Colours-vary-that-shown/dp/B000H6W726

you can still get them

 

[xenon]

Chips.