The Best Potatoes Ever to Be Eaten

According to my Irish British Husband

I love Matt, my hilariously witty Irish English husband who takes potatoes very seriously. Just like I couldn’t believe he had never tried sushi until he met me. He couldn’t believe that I only ate potatoes once a year on Thanksgiving, French fries not withstanding. I came from a rice eating household and potatoes in any form were not on the menu. Obviously this all changed when I moved to England and realized that potatoes were part of the social fabric over there. Every Sunday there are the revered roast potatoes. They love their mashed potatoes. They love chips, which is what they call fries. They devour jacket potatoes for lunch and somehow don’t fall asleep at their desks. The Brits will even put chips in their sandwiches, aka a Chip Butty. So whenever Matt sees a food video on something he thinks he or I would like to eat, he lovingly sends it along. This week is was Marco Pierre White’s perfect boiled potatoes drowned in a 'vulgar’ amount of butter.

Whenever I make a boiled potato, I think of Mr. Collins in Pride and Prejudice. In my head these are the potatoes he was complimenting, as he backhandedly enquired into the family’s financial status and whether they could afford a cook. Now don’t get me wrong, these potatoes took a lot more time and effort than a normal boiled potato, but my God were they worth it. Matt and both kids claimed them to be the BEST POTATOES THEY HAD EVER EATEN. This is a huge claim from a British Irish person.

So I watched the grainy video over and over scribbling down notes and went forth on these boiled potatoes drowned in butter.

This is another one of those posts I make where I scratch my head that it didn’t go viral. But I have a feeling they will become a cult classic. Kind of like The Big Lebowski.

This feeds 4-6

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