Rainbow potato mash.

[tiachica]

Mhmmm... couldn't resist to take a picture.

Home-grown potatoe mash and not a food colouring in sight. Honestly!

[Alison]

Just can't get my head around spuds that aren't white fleshed, don't know why as in other veggies I like to experiment with different colours but the sight of your mash makes me feel a bit queasy for some reason Which varieties did you grow by the way?

[tiachica]

Hehe, I have made rainbow chips too! They were even better!

I grew Highland Burgundy Red with a fantastic harvest.
And Congo, even if they didn't have just as many spuds. Still good.

[Jeanied]

How fab, Tiachia - even better when the potatoes keep their colour after cooking! All my exciting ones went grey in the pot!

[tiachica]

Hi Jeanie,

I steamed them. I didn't dare boil them!

Even the chips, I steamed them first and then deep-fried.

I think that's what helped them retain their colour.

[zebedee]

Mhmmm... couldn't resist to take a picture.

Home-grown potatoe mash and not a food colouring in sight. Honestly!

Was that some of the Salad Blue potatoes there? I am growing some of them and never have before!

[Mikey]

A few years ago I grew white beetroot instead of red, they didn't bleed, but its a weird in built mechanism that tells you its all wrong, even though they tasted fab. One day we did indeed have beetroot mash OH didn't realise what they were, and mistook them for potatoes (don't ask!).

[SueA]

I bet kids would like to eat coloured mash but I'm another one who feels a bit queasy if it's not white/cream! I'm not keen either on the potatoes that are purple/blue & have a blue/ring inside on the cream flesh, they just look like they're going off to me. Can't eat blue cheese either as it just looks like mould.
Mikey, what did the mash taste like? Beetroot?

[Alison]

Can't eat blue cheese either as it just looks like mould.

That's cos blue cheese is mould - lovely it is too

[SueA]

I was persuaded to try a small piece of 'Smelly Apeth' blue cheese at the weekend Alison & at first I thought it wasn't too bad but all afternoon I had a horrible aftertaste of it & at night I felt a bit nauseous! I think a lot of it is 'in my head' though because of the appearance of it , like Tiachica's blue mash it just doesn't feel right when I'm eating it!

[Florence Fennel]

I can't get on with blue cheese either Sue, but I wouldn't mind a taste of the blue mash.

[Alison]

I was persuaded to try a small piece of 'Smelly Apeth' blue cheese at the weekend Alison & at first I thought it wasn't too bad but all afternoon I had a horrible aftertaste of it & at night I felt a bit nauseous! I think a lot of it is 'in my head' though because of the appearance of it , like Tiachica's blue mash it just doesn't feel right when I'm eating it!

I was born not far from Stilton so cheese should be blue to me

[womble]

Mhmmm... couldn't resist to take a picture.

Home-grown potatoe mash and not a food colouring in sight. Honestly!

I'm growing a black potato, someone on here sent me. Interesting to try it as a mash, me and my DD can't wait.

BTW I like the look of your ham.

[Hilary B]

I don't eat mash, a hangover reaction from school dinners (somehow cottage pie doesn't count as mash, and clapshot is nice too...)
The colours wouldn't bother me, just the mashedness....

[di]

That would have been great for when DD went through her fussy phaze...I'd give her mashed potato in an icecream cone...she nearly always got to the end before sussing it wasn't icecream.
If I want pink mash I just cook it with a bit of beetroot.
Never liked the thought of the black spuds...they look blighted.