Hot Potato Cakes with Crème Fráiche and Smoked Salmon

TODAY is National Potato Day. I love potatoes, but not just any potatoes. The red-skinned Rooster is supposedly Ireland’s favourite potato, but not mine.

Give me Home Guard or British Queens any day. Later in the season I also seek out Sharps Express and Skerry Champions.

For those who like a waxy potato, fingerlings like Ratte and Pink Fir Apple make delicious potato salads. For flavour and texture, main crop Golden Wonders and Kerr’s Pinks are hard to beat.