The Guardian's Twenty best potato recipes

[Pepper Pig Profile]

Shepherd’s pie? I know it has potatoes in it but I’d hardly rate it as a potato dish. Does that mean the hake and mash I’m doing for our tea, can be described as a potato dish?

I've been thinking about this - (it takes longer these days) ! When I was a child in the fifties we always had shepherd's pie on Mondays to use up the remains of the Sunday roast. I reckon it was a quarter meat to three quarters potato so that really would classify it as a potato dish. It certainly is a dish that has been gentrified!

I'd have corned beef hash in my top twenty.

[Sakkarin Profile]

I usually buy diced, tinned tomatoes - already chopped and not messy at all

I get your point, although "diced" infers a process involving precision knife skills, whereas the texture of canned chopped tomatoes suggests they've been attacked with a lawnmower...

[Badger's Mate Profile]

"diced" infers a process involving precision knife skills

Not in this house