Potato Hacking, Day 1 - First lessons, and hacking the hack into an Irish Peasant Diet

This morning's first lesson is to make sure pictures are in focus. The fuzzy pic above is three pounds of potatoes. The second lesson is to buy potatoes of about the same size, if possible. It would'vebeen fine to boil these uncut until the largest ones were done, but I wanted to trim the imperfections, and since I was cutting, I chopped them all to about the same size on the theory that