Cover 10 peeled potatoes with salty boiling water and boil, covered with a lid, until ready. Filter the water, mash the potatoes with a wooden pestle, add 1 cup of hot milk, 2 tablespoons of butter and beat up until fluffy. Divide the mashed potatoes into 3 parts. Add an egg yolk to the first portion and stir thoroughly, add boiled, drained and grated spinach (200 grams) to the second portion or you can just add the squeezed spinach juice to that portion, color the third portion with a tomato paste (1-2 tablespoons). Put each portion in a salad bowl in the shape of a pyramid of 3 colors, garnish with lettuce leaves. Dress with 2 tablespoons of melted butter. You can serve the mashed potatoes with meat or separately.
POTATOES WITH BUTTER AND CHOPPED EGGS
Peel, boil and dice 8 potatoes. Set aside. Boil 4 eggs, chop and mix them with the potatoes. Melt 2 tablespoons of butter and dress the dish. You can also add cream. Top with chopped parsley or dill greens.
POTATOES WITH APPLES
Prepare mashed potatoes from 10 potatoes. Set aside. Boil and grate 10 sour apples. Add them to the potatoes and beat up. Melt 2 tablespoons of salted pork fat and fry 3 sliced onions and 500 grams of blood-pudding. Serve with the potato-apple mixture.
POTATOES WITH SOUR CREAM AND ONIONS
Peel, boil and dry 8 potatoes. Set aside. Slice 2 onions, mix with 1 cup of sour cream, add salt, pepper, sugar to taste, and leave the mixture for half an hour. Serve with the hot boiled potatoes.
MASHED POTATOES WITH ONIONS
Peel, boil 6 potatoes and 6 onions in a small amount of water. Filter the water, grate the onions and potatoes, add 1 cup of hot milk, 2-3 tablespoons of butter, 3 egg yolks and beat up. Dress with salt, pepper and ground nutmegs. Serve hot.
POTATOES WITH WHITE SAUCE AND ONIONS
Boil 6 potatoes with their skin on. Peel and cut them into wedges. Set aside. Make a thick sauce from a meat broth: slice 2 onions, fry them in butter, add 1 tablespoon of flour, 1 cup of the meat broth and bring to a boil. Pour the sauce over the potatoes, add salt, pepper to taste and boil for 10 minutes. Sprinkle with chopped parsley greens before serving.
MASHED POTATOES WITH LEGUMES
Sort, wash, soak and boil 300 grams of legumes (kidney beans, split peas, beans). Add 4 boiled potatoes, 1 cup of hot milk to the legumes while they are hot. Serve with fat, sprinkle with greens.
POTATOES WITH PORK FAT
Boil 5 potatoes with their skin on. Peel and cut them into pieces. Fry 1 chopped onion in oil. When it colors golden brown, add 100 grams of diced salted pork fat and fry stirring. Add 1 tablespoon of flour and 1 tablespoon of tomato paste. Add the potatoes to the sauce in 10-15 minutes and keep cooking for 10 minutes more.
POTATOES WITH OLIVES
Cut 5 peeled and washed potatoes into 4 parts. Soak the olives in warm water for 2 hours. Fry 1 chopped onion and 1 tablespoon of flour with chopped greens in oil separately. Add 1 tablespoon of tomato paste and some water. Stew the potatoes with the olives in this sauce.
SOUR POTATOES
Fry 1 chopped onion; add 1 tablespoon of flour, red ground pepper and 1 cup of boiling water. Add 5 peeled potatoes, cut into big pieces, to this mixture and boil for 20 minutes, add salt, 1 teaspoon of vinegar, 2 tablespoons of sour cream, chopped greens and bring to a boil.