Wait a minute - England is not known for having delicious food but every potato dish you have mentioned sounds absolutely scrumptious! I could go home and fix nothing but potato dishes for a week!
>>>>FWIW, I like mashed potatoes, too. In fact, there's not too much you can do to a potato that I wouldn't like.
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>>>>Tamar
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>>>Potatoes marquise, duchess?
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>>Not sure what those are.
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>You whip up into the lightest, fluffiest, daintiest mash. Then in a piping bag and piped into a spiral cone, on a greased baking dish, then (in one of the variants at least) sprinkled with cheeses (or melted cheese painted on), then under the grill till they're brown/crusty/burnt on the outside shell - Yummy!
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>>>Have you tried them with fennel?
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>>I don't think I've ever had fennel. What does it taste like?
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>It has a sort of aniseedy taste.
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>Then there's Lyonaise:
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>raw potato sliced incredibly thin (as thin as you can), then laid in strata with, I think, onion slices, and baked with a cheesy (or bechemail?) sauce. Something similar is the base for Lancashire hotpot, when they go caramelised, sweet and crispy (but not with the Lyonaise-style sauce)
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