/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>18850881
They grow literally anywhere*, are high yield and incredibly nutritious and calorie dense. They are also very easy to grow, store and don't require processing like grains, you can just clean em off an throw em in a pot. This made them quickly become a staple of peasant /lower class food across Europe. Even the poorest farmer could feed his family with a small potato plot and they could easily be prepared by chopping them up and throwing them into a stew, frying them in fat or oil or just roasting them on an open fire. In contrast, grains like wheat or rice require huge plots of land that were monopolized by the aristocracy and they are very labour intensive to process into something edible; grains must be reaped, threshed, milled and often baked before yielding something edible.

*not only do they grow in almost any soil quality, they don't even need to be grown in arable land or fields. There are instances in Ireland where people on marginal land would pack seaweed into the cracks between limestone boulders and grow potatoes in that.

>>18073076

>Country:
Ireland

>Appetizer:
Steamed Killary Fjord Mussels in a white wine and garlic sauce
>Soup:
Potato, leek and dilisk seaweed
>Main course:
Irish roast sirloin, served with mashed spuds, carrots, peas and gravy
>Second course:
Grilled Atlantic Salmon with a side of wild garlic and watercress salad
>Desert:
Apple tart
>Drink:
Pint of Guinness and a glass of Jameson