Afterthoughts & Addenda
Potatoes and Cost - I said in this video that potatoes are not really cost effective to grow. Potatoes are fairly cheap to buy. The total yield of potatoes from my little plot is probably less than 10kg. I could buy 10kg of potatoes for about £7; less than that if I shopped around. So the maximum amount of money I could have saved by growing these potatoes is less than the price of two cups of coffee in a high street coffee shop.
I spent about £4 on seed potatoes. I have rainwater storage, but that ran out, so I have also had to use metered water to water them. Probably only pennies for that though. I haven't even tried to cost my time and effort at all for planting, watering, weeding etc.
If you have the space to grow a large amount of potatoes (such that it becomes worthwhile to cut the seed potatoes into pieces to multiply them, and if you're buying the seed potatoes at wholesale prices), then it starts to be worth doing it with economy as the goal. That wasn't a reasonable goal at this scale - but freshly dug potatoes are supremely delicious, so it wasn't a waste growing them.

Your style of cooking is so natural, like you can tell you're comfortable in the kitchen and not afraid of the ingredients because you know what you're doing - it's so inspiring and makes these videos entertaining and informative. As viewers, we can feel confident in the dish you're showing us, and I feel like I've come to understand cooking in a more scientific/fundamental way watching you. And all of your dishes are so cute :D Thanks for another recipe to try!

In Australia and it’s winter so our garden is pretty bare. I’m enjoying living through your experiences during these colder months!

Boiled potatoes with just fresh butter is wonderful in itself.

You are always just such a delight. Hope you and Jenny are well and enjoying your summertime at Shrimp cottage

Hands down one of my favourite channels and your meal looked delicious

Thank you for the inspiration. I went to the farmer’s market this morning and cooked a version of this for dinner tonight. It was so delicious.

My friend used to cook a Hungarian dish that he called chicken paprikash, but it was stuffed into pancakes, covered in sauce with cheese on top, then baked much like yours. It was excellent, and I miss it dearly since I haven't had it in more than 15 years.

And as a bonus, he would cook the pancakes on an almost industrial scale, so there were plenty left over for dessert! I'm talking a stack of crepe thin pancakes around 10cm tall. We'd have pancakes for days.

Everything looks delicious! I don't think I've ever seen potatoes as perfect as those.

Broadbeans are my favorite vegatable. You should try “zeytinyagli bakla” . Young and tender broadbeans are cooked with their pods and seasoned with lemon garlic and dill.

I’ve just eaten my breakfast…..but I’m drooling over that meal. I just love fresh, fresh, fresh ingredients cooked simply.❤

Here's how much I like watching your video's- I don't like/can't tolerate some of the ingredients you use & would never make what you do but I'm very happy to watch your use of home grown ingredients in such a home-made way.

Wow, I've never heard of savory stuffed pancakes! It's like British enchiladas! ❤ 😊 Looks tasty!

I've only recently discovered the panoply of Chinese snacks made of dried/fried broad beans smothered in seasonings.  They're not only delicious, but you also get to enjoy the look on a friend's face when you toss them a package of "strange-taste horsebeans."

We had our first home-grown new potatoes this week too. You are so right that they are a world away from bought ones. This is the 2nd year I've grown them from wrinkly supermarket potatoes that had gone past themselves. They were in effect free

For the rest of my life I will remember with awe the taste of tomatoes straight from my Dad's garden over 20 years ago. Magic!

Looked really nice. Little disappointed in the filming though, there just seemed to be something missing. Have you considered introducing a small flickering light into your videos? I think they'd really benefit from the additional point of interest.

In India we learned “ the first for the dog, the last for the cow” but it may have been the other way round. We now no longer have either so we eat both the first and the last.

Just happened to be making dinner now and all of the sudden I'm wishing I was making pancakes. Also nothing better than freshly dug up potatoes.

Looks great! Interesting comment on growing potatoes at home not being cost effective, I had no idea. Would be nice if you could talk a bit more about which vegetables are cost effective to grow, you've caught my curiosity!