The phrase "a few potatoes" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a small quantity of potatoes, typically in a context related to cooking, shopping, or discussing food.
Example: "For the recipe, you will need a few potatoes, some onions, and a pinch of salt."
Alternatives: "a couple of potatoes" or "some potatoes".
"Nothing much," she says, "just a few potatoes".
Good-quality skirt steak needs nothing more in the way of accessories than a few potatoes and some powerfully concentrated slow-roasted tomatoes.
It began with a few potatoes planted in the corner of a stony field, and turned into one of the "greatest works of art created in Scotland".
I made Oliver's chowder this fall, feeling my way through her bracingly vague instructions: "You cut up some bacon, sauté it, add some onion, some parsnips, a few potatoes, and some water, followed by milk and cream".
Then they will use extensive screening and DNA analysis to identify a few potatoes that appear to have all the desired traits, and those will be tested in the field.
In reality this family, whose children are living on a tin of beans and a few potatoes a day while the parents go without food for days at a time, have little chance of finding out.
"You want to do business, you need to buy a few potato sacks".
Drop a few potato slices at a time into the oil and fry until the edges begin to brown, 3 to 4 minutes, then turn the slices and brown the other side, 1 to 2 minutes.
If you order a chicken sandwich, you're likely to get some brisket on the side, a few potato pancakes and a piece of whitefish for good luck, even if you plead, "Frances, I can't eat that much".
Have a large portion of their daily chowder; neither glutinous nor creamy, it consists of a light broth fragrant with great marine ingredients and a few potato cubes.
Except, occasionally when the moon was waxing gibbous and I was in a particularly extravagant mood in those instances, I would add a few potato chips.
