Side Dishes
Spud Sunday: Simple Spuds
Bay leaves, a really simple but very worthwhile addition to roast potatoes (& baked potatoes too, for that matter)
Spud Sunday: Meet The Peppers
Roasted potatoes with a bit of middle eastern flavour, adapted from Yotam Ottolenghi’s recipe for batata harra
Spud Sunday: Those Other Potatoes
Sweet potatoes finally get a look in on The Daily Spud, thanks to a lime-seasoned potato and sweet potato mash, as spotted in Catherine Fulvio’s new book, Catherine’s Family Kitchen
Spud Sunday: Vive La Spud
Antoine Augustin Parmentier, he who popularised the potato in France, also lends his name to these herby potatoes parmentier, with roasted potato cubes and plenty of fresh herbs
The TaytoRiCo Challenge
TaytoRiCo, where potatoes, rice & coconut meet. Realised here as a thin and crispy potato galette topped with coconut rice and whatever else takes your fancy.
Spud Sunday: Time For Tatties
Turnips and potatoes, or should I say neeps and tatties, are mashed together here to make clapshot for a Scottish Burn’s Night supper
Spud Sunday: Roasties Revisited
Roast potatoes are an essential part of Irish Christmas dinner, but which potatoes make the best roasties? 5 different types of potato later, we have a winner…
Spud Sunday: Star Of The Seaweed
Dillisk or dulse, a wonderfully savoury seaweed found on the shores of the North Atlantic, goes down a treat with spuds, a fact ably demonstrated by this dillisk-seasoned garlicky potato gratin.






