Prompt: Potatoes

[runpunkrun]

That's right, it's Potato Month here on gluten_free. Tell all your friends. If you need help, here's a gif of Sean Austin as Samwise Gamgee saying potatoes while emphasizing every syllable.

To fill this prompt, you can:

1. Slide into the comments of this post and share a link to a recipe, product, or resource and why you like it.
2. Write up a favorite recipe and post it to the comm.
3. Post a review of a related product or cookbook to the comm.
4. Try someone's recipe and reply to their post (or comment) with any changes you made and how it turned out.

Monthly prompts are only for inspiration and not a requirement. You can post whatever you like to the comm whenever you like as long as it meets the community guidelines.

Here's what's going on in the comments:

• Reuben Potatoes from panisdead
• Colcannon from harmonic_tabby
• vegan mashed potatoes from reeby10
• Potatoes Are the Perfect Vegetable—but You’re Eating Them Wrong, by Matt Reynolds in Wired from mific

Comments

Colcannon

[harmonic_tabby]

I've been cooking for over 40 years but just recently met Colcannon. No idea where it was hiding but I've been feeding it to Himself for months now with great results. Himself approved!

The basic description is mashed potatoes with cabbage but it's slightly more complicated. And proportions are quite flexible. Boil some cubed potatoes until cooked through and fairly soft. Drain and let sit for a few minutes while prepping the remaining ingredients. Toss butter into the pot to melt, add diced onion and chopped cabbage to saute. When both are cooked to your liking, add back the drained potatoes and start mashing them into the onion/cabbage.

You can change the ratios to suit your taste buds. Half and half potato and cabbage, just a hint of cabbage with lots of onion, just wave a scallion at the pan and then use it for garnish, whatever floats your boat. I find it works best with the cabbage a fairly fine chop (like for a slaw) because it's difficult to mash the potatoes if the cabbage clogs the masher. It goes together quickly and I don't cook the cabbage/onion too long since I'm perfectly willing to eat both raw, although raw doesn't go well with the potatoes.

Doing an internet search for colcannon will get you a wikipedia page with interesting history and hundreds of recipes. The first recipe I tried used a stick of butter (quarter pound) with the potatoes and cabbage so that's what I default to now. Substitutions would certainly work if you wanted to use olive oil instead of butter, any red or yellow potato should be fine and same with onion, scallion, shallot, or leek.