[Review] Rankin Irish Potato Slims (potato farls)

Farls meaning quadrant-shaped flatbreads and cakes, traditionally made by cutting a round into four pieces.
You will find Irish Soda Farls or Potato farls.
Personally I love potato farls because I am a fan of anything that is made with potatoes.
You eat them by putting them on the griddle with butter but I toast time.
They are similar to gnocchi but much softer so having melted cheddar cheese with them tastes amazing!!
The Rankin Irish Potato Slims are rectangular which fit the toaster nicely.
They tasted great toasted and topped with melted cheese and marmite butter.

[Review] M&S Marks and Spencers lighter Potato Salad

I love potatoes and carbs so tried M&S Marks and Spencers lighter Potato Salad which is basically potatoes in a yoghurt dressing.

If you are not on diet, I seriously prefer the creamy mayonnaise dressing or add some Smiths Bacon fries to make it better.

[Review] McCain Ready Baked Jacket Potatoes and McCain Smiles

(updated 15/2/2020)

As a foodie, I am always documenting what I eat and liked as a child so this time I got the McCain smiles which were fun as a child.

Decided to pair it with some chicken doughnut dippers from M&S for fun.

However the potato smiles were the most evil and alien looking potato faces in my life!!

It seems I got the same batch as Laura Basch as reported on The Sun dated 19th Dec 2020 because it is Feb now so it may well be the same batch.

The potato faces smelled good but I wasn't expecting them to be tasteless and dry and the quality doesn't seem to be as good as they used to.

Also tried McCain Ready Baked Jacket Potatoes in Nov 2019 where you microwave them for 5 minutes.

Inside the box:

I was a little disappointed with the potatoes because the texture was very starchy.

The potato collapsed like a sand castle when you put your fork in it.

[Review] Tesco 6 Potato Cakes

I love Irish potato cakes so decided to try Tescos for a change instead of Marks and Spencers.
It was hard selecting a pack as most of them had burnt blisters but got them anyway.

Compared to Marks and Spencers, the tesco potato cakes are rectangular and thinner.
When I took them out, they felt dry.
After toasting them, they were evidently dry and the lacked potato taste compared to Marks and Sparks whilst leaving a strange aftertaste with some bitterness.

Baby Charlotte potato salad by Marks and Spencers

This was a box of ready to eat potato salad which was mixed with salad onions and mayonnaise.
It was nice and creamy with crisp sweet onions but the potatoes could have been softer.

Baxters Stay Full Broccoli, Salmon and Watercress Soup

Tried the Broccoli, Salmon and Watercress soup by Baxters Stay Full range.

I was very impressed by this soup and found it very wholesome.

It is different from other soups because it is about 30% soup and the rest of the 70% are the filling ingredients such as Celery, Broccoli, Onions, Leeks, Peas, Edamame Beans, Potatoes, Watercress, Pinto Beans, Salmon, Pearl Barley and Crème Fraiche.

The only disappointment was the Salmon, I was expecting more Salmon and the pieces of salmon were tiny!It was about the size of a 9mm cube and smaller than a pea.

But anyway the taste was really nice.

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tiny piece of salmon

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I was also expecting to find some whole pieces of broccoli too but it was finely chopped.

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However there were lots of pulses.

 a piece of potato and salmon

Barley