Darina Allen: Dishes using potatoes can bring a meal from zero to hero

Super nutritious, cheap, super versatile and so, so tasty — make potatoes your superfood

Rustic Roasties with Aioli (Garlic Mayo)

A couple of weeks ago the World Potato Congress was held in Dublin hosted by the Irish Potato Federation. It was the first to be held in Ireland, despite our long, complicated and tragic relationship with the potato.

The congress heard an Irish Government report that there has been a 25% drop in the consumption of potatoes in Ireland over the past 10 years. I’m saddened but not surprised.  It is of course, partly due to the growing popularity of other foods, pasta, grains, rice, couscous and the perception that potatoes are fattening.