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  1. Sounds yummy!! A great way to use up leftover ham too.

  2. Here’s a cheap spud recipe which serves 4. I know it sounds pure dodge but trust me, it’s awesome.
    -Preheat oven to around 200 C
    -Boil potatoes
    -Roughly mash, adding some wholegrain mustard, and any other spices you fancy
    -Get a deepish casserole dish
    -Empty 2 tins of beans into bottom of casserole dish (I sometimes add chili flakes
    -Open a tin of corned beef, and break/crumble this up with your hands over the beans (you can discard any fat that’s around the outside)
    -Put your roughed up spuds over the top
    -Put in oven for about 25 minutes, or until beans are bubbling up around the edge. If desired, put grated cheese on top at the 15 – 20 minute mark
    -Enjoy!

  3. I usually steam Golden Wonders or Kerr Pinks in their jackets, and eat them with yogurt. Healthy and delicious.

    Leftover spuds can be peeled, sliced and fried in olive oil, with an egg and a tomato. Not quite so healthy, but better than tinned corn beef!

  4. I had a tasty and quick dish with leftover spuds recently. I baked loads of potatoes in their jackets to go with a stew and had a few left over. The internet told me to scoop out the cooked spuds, slice them up and heat them in a pan with cream, garlic and black pepper. It was like a very quick, easy and lazy version of potato gratin. Yay!

  5. Make potato bread by kneading mashed leftovers with flour. Add bacon, sausage, cheese whatever you have, brush with beaten egg and fry with olive oil. Serve with melted butter on top or poached eggs

  6. Quick, cheap egg and potato dinner: fry a chopped onion, add some leftover potatoes, sliced. Break an egg in the middle and fry it.
    Home made potato wedges: cut into wedges, add some oil, salt and pepper and toss to cover. Spread on a single layer on a baking sheet. Cook in the oven for 30mn at 200C
    Bacon and potato pan cake: fry bacon and onion, add some roughly mashed potatoes, press well in the pan so it sticks together. Fry gently and invert on a plate. Put back in the pan and fry the other side
    Potato salad with sliced spring onion and French dressing made with wholegrain mustard and olive oil
    Grate potatoes, press them well to extract the moisture. Fry in a pan with olive oil, pressing them well to make a potato straw cake
    Egg nests: spread mashed potatoes in a dish, make a whole, break an egg, bake in the oven until the egg is cooked through
    Add some cream, beaten egg, cheese to mashed potatoes, bake. Also delicious with added mashed carrots or sweede or parsnip
    Snow peas and baby potatoes strir fry (parboil the potatoes first). Add soya sauce
    Slice potatoes very thinly, add some thinly sliced sping onions. Spread in a dish. Add a cup of stock. Cook in the oven

    Shall I go on???

  7. Do I have any interesting spud ideas? I have a blog full of them at http://www.thedailyspud.com ! 🙂