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Potatoes-Food of the gods.
Topic Started: Feb 3 2016, 11:21 AM (513 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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Olive Oil
Feb 5 2016, 05:20 PM
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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The color fades a little but if not over cooked can be very colorful. I always bake mine. Russian blue are not a particularly good potatoe and production is not high. There color is the attraction. I don't grow them anymore.
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Trotsky
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The cross section cut looks like a lemon from Mars. The small insert looks like turnips.
Is the flavor much different from a "new" potato (formerly Long Island) or an Idaho (russet)?
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The baked flavour is sort of dry and maybe a bit mealy like a bit of grit. No particular taste that is appealing. I choose others for baking if they are available.

All potatoes originated in SA, around Peru and Chile. A potato has been adapted for every climate.
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Ginny will eat POTATOES?
I thought dogs were carnivores.
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They're omnivores. My dog would steal most of the tomatoes and peppers off the plants before I got a chance to harvest them. I remember once hearing an odd crunching sound coming from the kitchen, I hadn't finished unpacking the groceries and she was helping herself to the cauliflower. Winter evenings she and I used to share an orange.
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FuzzyO
Feb 6 2016, 02:12 AM
They're omnivores. My dog would steal most of the tomatoes and peppers off the plants before I got a chance to harvest them. I remember once hearing an odd crunching sound coming from the kitchen, I hadn't finished unpacking the groceries and she was helping herself to the cauliflower. Winter evenings she and I used to share an orange.
Montana is exactly the same Fuzzy. Just this morning as I started to peel a banana to put on my cereal she was right there. And cauliflower is one of her favourite veggies. I do not think I have found a fruit or veggie she does not like.

Many years ago our Lassie type Collie spent a week with relatives, and she cleared their plants of all the ripe tomatoes. oooh 02

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Our dog used to always accompany me when I went to the garden, she would eat carrots until she was full. One year an entire row or carrots was dug up one night by coyotes, then the deer came and ate the spaghetti squash and zucchini. I had to put a fence around the garden to keep the big animals out, but rabbits still tunneled their way under the fence. We actually found it quite entertaining to see who could outwit who, most times it ended in a draw, and we had some pretty well fed visitors. The only thing no animal would touch is potatoes, they are part of the nightshade family, so the leaves and stems are poisonous to some critters.
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I met a woman at the store buying yams for her dog. He is on a natural diet and I the yams supply the fibre and vitamins. There seems to be two camps about the new natural diets. One is strongly for it and the other is very much opposed.
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One evening I had left a couple of roasted sweet potatoes on top of the stove to cool before refrigerating them. One of the cats obliged the dog by knocking one to the floor for her. I know this because there was no way Becky, a cocker spaniel, could have reached it on her own.
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Olive Oil
Feb 6 2016, 05:03 AM
I met a woman at the store buying yams for her dog. He is on a natural diet and I the yams supply the fibre and vitamins. There seems to be two camps about the new natural diets. One is strongly for it and the other is very much opposed.
I have a dog who is very much opposed to eating sweet potatoes. He did like the speck of sauerkraut I let him have.
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My dog would devour his dish full of leftover beef stew. At the bottom, there were all the peas. Totally clean and still perfectly round.
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Feb 6 2016, 11:21 AM
My dog would devour his dish full of leftover beef stew. At the bottom, there were all the peas. Totally clean and still perfectly round.
That sounds very much like our old golden lab 'Lauchie' ... he was a barrel on short stubby legs. He used to lie under the pear trees and gorge himself on fallen fruit. He was very particular though and only picked the ripest fruit!
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