
Looks like I've created a dish then.
I'm ambivalent towards potatoes in general because I'm hugely fussy about how they are cooked. Or more accurately, that they are cooked to my taste and served at a temperature that makes them edible to me. There's two things I absolutely cannot stand pertaining to potato and that's if they are undercooked and/or if they are cold. There was even one memorable occasion when I was presented with raw potato in a hotel restaurant and that pleased me as much as you can imagine but that's another story altogether.
So salads with potato are pretty much a non-starter for me but new potatoes do get used but served hot and cooked for much longer than the fucking TV chefs and some recipe books say to cook them for. I've heard the cunts say shit like simmer for eight minutes. Eight fucking minutes?! It's a fucking subterranean vegetable tuber thing, not a fucking egg.
Mostly I'll eat them with fish, rolled in butter in the pot, maybe with some finely chopped parsley. Or, where they really hit the heights, with lamb chops/cutlets/steaks with broad beans and broccoli or asparagus and rolled in mint and butter rather than parsley. And there's a short period where you can partner up spring lamb, English asparagus and Jersey motherfucking Royal new potatoes. Holy shit, that's food of the Gods. It's only a short season for Jersey's and they are about three times the price of the regular ones but worth every penny.