NEVER Boil Your Potatoes Again — Try This Old IRISH Trick

My mother had no thermometer and no recipe. She had a pot, a fire, and five rules she never wrote down. I got them wrong myself for years. Came home from Castlebar at twenty-six and couldn't put a decent plate of potatoes on her table, in her own kitchen, with her watching. So if yours are coming out watery or gluey, you're in good company, and it's almost certainly the same two rules you're missing. Everything here I do on an ordinary cooker. None of it needs a fire. Tell me where your people cooked. Not just Ireland, anywhere. And tell me the one thing your mother or your grandmother did at that stove that you still do and still can't fully explain. I read every one of them, and half of what I know now came from somebody's comment about a kitchen four thousand miles from mine. Nana Bridie's Kitchen. Outside Ballycroy, County Mayo. Old Irish cooking, written down before it goes. #irishcooking #oldfashionedcooking #mashedpotatoes #irishrecipes #cookingtips