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Potatoes-Food of the gods.
Topic Started: Feb 3 2016, 11:21 AM (512 Views)
Durgan
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http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=48 All you wanted to know about potatoes.

"New potatoes and butter with salt," he said, "are the food of the gods."

Potato is one of the most popular throughout the world and the one that Americans consume more of pound for pound than any other. Currently, the main producers of potatoes include the Russian Federation, Poland, India, China and the United States.
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FuzzyO
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New potatoes, butter, salt and chopped parsley or dill. Now that's what's truly heavenly.
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Dana
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Another variation is with butter, garlic and rosemary.
Edited by Dana, Feb 3 2016, 11:33 AM.
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Darcie
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I love potatoes but they do not love me. I sometimes break down and have a baked potato with butter, chives and real bacon bits.
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I love potatoes.... any which way :) Last night was a baked one & Caesar salad.
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Trotsky
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I am FURIOUS with myself.
Monday night I bought, downstairs market, a nice lean bottom round roast to make cubes because of all the talk here about beef stew. I realized I had onions, celery, and carrots but no potatoes.
We checked 5 lbs of new potatoes: $1.99. I told Bob we could do better. He said, as he always does, "If we buy them it will be done." We did.
Tuesday morning we walked uptown 8 blocks North to the cheaper market and they had 5 lbs. for $.99.

I HATE when I overpay for anything. The only upside is that we had 4 bags full to carry back and an extra 5 pounds of potatoes would have been a killer.
<Can you imagine how crazy the stock market gets me?>
Edited by Trotsky, Feb 4 2016, 05:49 AM.
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Delphi51
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Wow, those are both good prices!
We are buying potatoes again - the ones we dug ourselves are gone or past their best before date.
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Durgan
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The last of my stored potatoes are used up. They were just starting to sprout. I had 105 pounds. They lasted five months almost to the day. I harvested on the 1 September. This year,2016, I will leave them in the ground until sometime in October.

http://www.durgan.org/2015/September%202015/1%20September%202015%20Potato%20Harvest/HTML/ 1 September 2015 Potato Harvest
The vegetation from my potatoes has died off, weather is dry, a perfect time to harvest.Obtained were 70 pounds of Pontiac Red, 15 pounds of Yukon gold, and 20 pounds of Superior. The Pontiac Red averaged 4.5 pounds per plant of excellent tubers. One plant was 9 pounds. I only need about 50 pounds for my Winter use so will give some to neighbors. They will be stored in my basement insulated cold room.
Edited by Durgan, Feb 5 2016, 05:39 AM.
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Nothing quite like potatoes pulled fresh out of the ground.
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We checked 5 lbs of new potatoes: $1.99. I told Bob we could do better. He said, as he always does, "If we buy them it will be done." We did.


and he is right Trotsky ! :) We could only wish for that price over here.
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Taewa (Māori potato) was, next to the kūmara, one of the most important root crops to Māori. There is some debate over its origins, it is known to come from the Americas, but there is discussion on whether Māori had taewa prior to European arrival or if Europeans introduced taewa to the various iwi during their travels. It is now widely accepted that Captain James Cook introduced taewa to New Zealand.

After their introduction, Māori adopted this new root crop and quickly started cultivating large amounts of taewa. They were easier to grow than kūmara because they could grow in cooler climates and produced higher yields, making them very appealing to Māori. This also made them a valuable resource as a food source and as currency in trading. There are accounts of several tonnes of taewa being stored awaiting the arrival European ships for trade. The taewa were traded for iron tools, which were useful for agriculture.

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Te toto o te tangata, he kai; te oranga o te tangata, he whenua.
Food supplies the blood of man, his welfare depends on the land.

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Taewa (Māori potato)

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From My garden

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Those blue potatoes look delicious. Do they retain their colour after cooking? I was surprised to learn there are hundreds of varieties of potatoes.
I like the fingerlings which are hard to find..
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Taewa are small potatoes ... the colour does change after boiling or steaming, they certainly aren't as blue looking cooked.
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My favourite is the Sieglinde. They have a thin skin and don't fall apart when boiling. A few years ago there was only one person selling them at the Farmers' Market, now several do.
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