The Charlotte potatoes are ready for lifting, oh how I love the smell of fresh potatoes from the soil. You can’t beat it. I adore the taste of Charlotte, they’re a good size salad potato and you can do pretty much anything with them. The seed potatoes had a pretty hot and dry start during the spring heat wave, a lot of watering had to be done which, I shan’t (is that a real word?) lie, was a total boring chore. They also dodged a late frost too thanks to a covering of cardboard, but I have to say I’m pretty pleased with the resulting tubers – even though the plants are much smaller than previous years.
I think I will make a nice minted potato salad today. Yum!
They look lovely. Minted potato salad sounds like the start of summer to me.
Mmmm, yum. I’ve only accidentally dug up some tiny potatoes whilst weeding but spent a very happy hour yesterday reading Nigel Slater’s recipes for new potatoes in Tender. I liked the sound of Charlottes with creme fraiche and dill, or – a real diet buster – crushed potatoes with cream, garlic and thyme. I’m sure however you cook them, they’ll be utterly delicious!
Creme fraiche and dill……cream, garlic and thyme…….oh my…..!!! YUMMERS!
I thought that might get your taste buds going! I had some (shop bought) Charlottes yesterday cooked, crushed slightly (allows the spud to absorb the flavours), flavoured with a drizzle of olive oil, a squeeze of lemon, sea salt, and cracked black pepper; leftovers refried to go with salmon fishcakes for supper. Delish!
New potatoes are just scrummy. Sadly I had to dig mine up quickly because I was hit by potato blight, but at least it gave me a topic for a blog post :-))
Cool, we dug our first potatoes ever yesterday. Don’t have much to compare them with yield wise, but they tasted lovely!
They look good! I’ve not lifted any of my Charlottes yet just a few first early Vales Emerald. xx
They look great. Where did you buy your seed potatoes from? I bought some from Unwins and had mixed results with them.