The best and first colcannons I ever had was at a re-enactment at Gettysburg. They formed them into patties and fried them. Heaven.
Did you ever try a fresh, just out of the ground potato? Think of a store bought tomato in December compared to the one you grow in your backyard in the summer.
For fresh potatoes I’d consider moving to Ireland! (but my kidlet lives in Scotland.)
Our fresh out of the ground redskins are so delicious.
“For fresh potatoes I’d consider moving to Ireland! ”
no need! And you don’t even need to move to Idaho :-) we live in East Tennessee and have had nice crops of potatoes the last two years. They grow fairly easily and store well for the winter. Actually have noticed my homegrown potatoes are much firmer than the store-bought ones. There’s just something different about them I can’t quite describe, even after being in the basement for months now.
We have grown russets, blue potatoes, red and yellow waxy potatoes, we probably done seven varieties at all.
Fried Colcannon patties sound amazing! I am going to have to give that a try.