We fight over some Pink Fir Apple potatoes to soak up the juices.
His response was swift: "The fir apple potatoes were dug up on the allotment.
The other day I whacked the fork into the ground and out came these wrinkly pink fir apple potatoes - they laughed like drains.
A query: when the previously disinterred pink fir apple potatoes were being chopped up at the allotment, they were removed from a clear plastic punnet of the sort in which posh potatoes are sold at, say, W******e.
Lunch Have a meeting at home over lunch, so roast a butterflied leg of lamb, along with a tin of sliced pink fir apple potatoes, yellow courgettes, cherry tomatoes, leeks and black olives.
Serves 4 For the fish sauce pollock bones 300g, chopped kombu (from large supermarkets) 25g double cream 200g pink fir apple potatoes 500g pollock 4 x 100g pieces lemon juice sea salt For the crumb breadcrumbs 100g parmesan 100g, grated To make the fish sauce, place the pollock bones into a pressure cooker, cover with water and add the kombu.
"These are a variety called pink fir apple potatoes, which are just sensational, look how nutty and knobbly they look.
Hargreaves says that there are great sales in heritage potato ranges, such as the Pink Fir Apple, a relative of the first potatoes brought over from South America by Walter Raleigh.
And a special mention must go to pink fir apple, that curious, long, knobbly potato – it may look as if it's permanently auditioning for the comedy vegetable slot on That's Life!, but it also has a superb flavour and a waxy, smooth texture.
We passed many local people working in fields of cabbages and potatoes among scattered stands of fir trees and rhododendrons.
