Charlotte potatoes

[Colin_M]

My husband had just found a way of rescuing these truly dreadful potatoes and turning them into something really tasty.

He whacked them with a rolling pin, until they were partly broken up

Hi Primrose, yes a lot of restaurants that used to serve a slice of lamb with a snippet of blackcurrant "jus" are now also offering servings of "crushed new potatoes". Must be all the rage

After I'd had a couple of failures with our Charlottes, I tried par-boiling them, dicing whilst they could still handle it, then roasting them (similar to your OH's). As you found, the end result is pretty good.

[Geoff]

My Charlottes that looked normal, long and yellow, cooked as normal today. Impressed the visitors anyway with lamb from the farm ½ mile away and French Beans, Peas, Calabrese, Broad Beans and Courgettes all harvested after they arrived and decided to stay for dinner.

[glallotments]

I noticed the courgettes slipped in there - have you many then?

[Geoff]

I said 12 plants were too many then I damaged the roots on one planting them out so had to sow two spares. Of course it recovered and the spares grew - Romanesco are very prolific. Is there any chance of a mail order business?