Quite few of us has been talking about it this year and now its finally reach the papers..
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2074024/Its-Christ-mush-dinner-The-potatoes-distintegrate-reach-dinner-table.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2074024/Its-Christ-mush-dinner-The-potatoes-distintegrate-reach-dinner-table.html)
..and as we suspected..weather is to blame..
At last I have some evidence to show my OH that indicates it's not my poor growing skills!
Actually we did get into an argument. The first time we used them was to make a potato salad and the OH boiled them to a puree. I get a bit irked at the loss of home grown veg but smiled and got some more out of the sack which promptly got boiled to a mush again. Words were had - words which I had to eat when I tried later in the week and made more mush!!
It's been worse than normal.... the Charlotte are holding up well... and the Anya of course :)
Steam them and all will be well.
As for buying them from a supermarket NEVER. :o
I bring my spuds to the boil and then turn the heat off. Leave an extra 10 mins or so and then mash well. I have got an electric hob which of course keep hot so I don't know if it would work with gas. Perhaps if the gas can be lowed so the water does not boil.
I too was horrified at the loss of my lovely home grown Picasso.
my maris piper & wilja have been really good but my mates maris bard went to mush
& he is only 100 yards away so ma be its down to the variety ???
Not had a problem with Nicola and only just starting PFA but they seem ok
its down to high sugars as well as variety, mal fromearlybird couriers
No mushies, but sprouties............... already! :(
Coldest and darkest part I can store them in the house and never seen them go this early (variety Cara)!
(http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t87/ninnyscrops/Sproutingpotatoes.jpg)
Ninnyscrops
Well, I have used up my own crops now anyway so it will be market bought ones for Xmas dinner. That dinner in the newspaper articles looked perfectly insipid! The spuddies the roasting tin looked more-ish though! I will try the parboiling method this year, I don't do roast spuds very often. I am going to serve Xmas duck with Brussels Sprouts with apple and bacon, honey glazed carrots, spiced sauteed pumpkin and roast and duchess potatoes. Yummy! And the best part is that you can get it mostly prepared the day before and actually sit your backside down a bit on Christmas day!
So I'm not going mad after all!! Even my suggested explanation sounds sensible>
Disintregating Potatoes
« on: August 28, 2011, 20:39:43 »
Quote from: antipodes on December 15, 2011, 15:23:45
actually sit your backside down a bit on Christmas day!
;D In my wishes!
Ninnyscops