"Cat(h)" wrote in message
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Well scrubbed, the skins are quite edible. For what it's worth, I
always eat the skin of my boiled spuds, even big main season ones.

I don't even peel potatoes to make mash, except at Christmas.

Mary

Cat(h)

"Cat(h)" writes

Alan Holmes wrote:
"Mary Fisher" wrote in message
. net...

"Broadback" wrote in message
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Can I compost all the small potatoes that I have this year, without them
sprouting up like weeds where I apply the compost? My wife refuses to
peel the marble sized ones, let alone the pea sizes! :-) Potatoes growing
where they were planted the previous year is pain enough without
exacerbating the problem.

Don't bother peeling them, boil them whole and serve with a bit of butter.
Delicious!

Hear, hear, or chould it be here, here?

Alan


I thought we'd established that... though I can't quite recall *what*
we'd established.

Hear, hear, as in 'this guy's talking sense, listen to him'
Also, it's 'bated breath' (abated, holding your breath) not 'baited
breath' which always makes me think of an open mouth with a sardine on
the tongue hoping to catch goodness knows what.
--
Kay

Mary Fisher wrote:
"Cat(h)" wrote in message
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Well scrubbed, the skins are quite edible. For what it's worth, I
always eat the skin of my boiled spuds, even big main season ones.

I don't even peel potatoes to make mash, except at Christmas.

Mary

I wouldn't get away with that... though I wouldn't mind it myself :-)

Cat(h)

K wrote:
Hear, hear, as in 'this guy's talking sense, listen to him'
Also, it's 'bated breath' (abated, holding your breath) not 'baited
breath' which always makes me think of an open mouth with a sardine on
the tongue hoping to catch goodness knows what.
--
Kay

Thank you for that. Hear hear is my only challenge, I knew not to put
an unfortunate sardine flavoured "i" in bated.
But because of you, I now have very odd images trotting in my brain...

Cat(h)

On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:39:52 +0100, "Mary Fisher"
wrote:


"Cat(h)" wrote in message
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Well scrubbed, the skins are quite edible. For what it's worth, I
always eat the skin of my boiled spuds, even big main season ones.

I don't even peel potatoes to make mash, except at Christmas.

You have mash for Christmas dinner?

Tony wrote:
You have mash for Christmas dinner?

She's foreign ;o)

Sacha typed


On 30/9/06 11:13, in article , "Broadback"
wrote:

Can I compost all the small potatoes that I have this year, without them
sprouting up like weeds where I apply the compost? My wife refuses to
peel the marble sized ones, let alone the pea sizes! :-) Potatoes
growing where they were planted the previous year is pain enough without
exacerbating the problem.

But those are the best kind! When they're the very early new potatoes
coming up tiny, they're called chats in Jersey. Don't even think of peeling
them. Roast them with rosemary and coarse salt. Wonderful!

Lazybones like me put them in the microwave in a closed container with a
little butter & seasoning.

Zap for a minute or so.

--
Helen D. Vecht:
Edgware.

Broadback typed


JennyC wrote:
"Broadback" wrote in message
...
Can I compost all the small potatoes that I have this year, without them
sprouting up like weeds where I apply the compost? My wife refuses
to peel
the marble sized ones, let alone the pea sizes! :-) Potatoes
growing where
they were planted the previous year is pain enough without exacerbating
the problem.

Fry or boil them in their skins !!
Jenny


Thanks all for your culinary tips, you live and learn, I thought (silly
me) that only "new" potatoes could be treated that way.

I don't think we've peeled any potatoes for years...
....or done any ironing.

--
Helen D. Vecht:
Edgware.

"Helen Deborah Vecht" wrote in message
...or done any ironing.

You do the ironing in the microwave? Bet that gets the laundry steaming :-)

On 2/10/06 17:46, in article , "K"
wrote:

"Cat(h)" writes

Alan Holmes wrote:
"Mary Fisher" wrote in message
. net...

"Broadback" wrote in message
...
Can I compost all the small potatoes that I have this year, without them
sprouting up like weeds where I apply the compost? My wife refuses to
peel the marble sized ones, let alone the pea sizes! :-) Potatoes growing
where they were planted the previous year is pain enough without
exacerbating the problem.

Don't bother peeling them, boil them whole and serve with a bit of butter.
Delicious!

Hear, hear, or chould it be here, here?

Alan


I thought we'd established that... though I can't quite recall *what*
we'd established.

Hear, hear, as in 'this guy's talking sense, listen to him'
Also, it's 'bated breath' (abated, holding your breath) not 'baited
breath' which always makes me think of an open mouth with a sardine on
the tongue hoping to catch goodness knows what.

The latter is one that always strikes a particularly strong visual emphasis
with me! A kipper hanging on the edge of the lip......eugh.

--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/

On 2/10/06 20:36, in article , "David
in Normandy" wrote:


"Helen Deborah Vecht" wrote in message
...or done any ironing.

You do the ironing in the microwave? Bet that gets the laundry steaming :-)

You can do some of the ironing on top of the AGA...

--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/

In article , Sacha
writes
The latter is one that always strikes a particularly strong visual emphasis
with me! A kipper hanging on the edge of the lip......eugh.

Its a mouthful of maggots that worries me.

--
regards andyw

"La Puce" wrote in message
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Tony wrote:
You have mash for Christmas dinner?

She's foreign ;o)

We don't eat many potatoes, it has to be a special occasion. On even more
special occasions we have mash. For the ultimate feast - Christmas Dinner -
we have mashed AND roast potatoes. It turns the meal into a feast :-)

Yes, I AM foreign - for five generations I'm pure English. Whatever that is.

But I married a man who had an Irish grandmother, one of our boys married a
Scot, another a Welsh girl, a daughter married a man with Jewish Russian
forebears, one grandson was born in Wales and another grandson has an
Angolan girl friend so the purity (!) is now lost.

HAHAHA!

Mary

"Helen Deborah Vecht" wrote in message
...

I don't think we've peeled any potatoes for years...
...or done any ironing.

I have never, ever, ironed a potato.

Mary

--
Helen D. Vecht:
Edgware.

"Mary Fisher" wrote in message
news:45222952$0$29547

I don't think we've peeled any potatoes for years...
...or done any ironing.

I have never, ever, ironed a potato.
Mary

I wonder if that is what waffles are?

David.