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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2009 18:53:31 GMT
Do you consider them indispensable?
How do you fix them?
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Post by gringalais on Feb 26, 2009 19:36:35 GMT
Indispensable, I'd say not for me. They're fine, but not my favorite food. Some ways I prepare them:
Mashed with either merquén (roasted chile powder they have here) or garlic
Potato salad with hard boiled eggs, green pepper, cilantro and mayo
Boiled, sliced then sautéed with olive oil, butter, tarragon, rosemary, black pepper and salt until they are golden
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Post by gyro on Feb 26, 2009 20:07:46 GMT
They're an underrrated vegetable.
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Post by bazfaz on Feb 26, 2009 20:13:34 GMT
I make corkscrew potatoes (cut in a ribbon and deep fried), roast potatoes and somtimes potato salad.
There are also a couple of delicious Turkish recipes but I'll need to feel better before I post them. Come to think of I probably did on TTR. Bixa should go and filch all the recipes I posted during my stint as a host.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 26, 2009 20:37:04 GMT
I love all kinds of potato salad, but only have it as treat food very occasionally.
Small new potatoes make great snacks -- steamed, left to cool, then sprinkled with vinegar & salt & pepper.
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Post by gringalais on Feb 26, 2009 20:42:59 GMT
I have another recipe for a potato salad of my mom's with sort of a herb-vinagrette dressing. I will have to look it up.
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Post by spindrift on Feb 26, 2009 21:24:49 GMT
Being half-Irish I love potatoes.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2009 21:49:32 GMT
I also love potatoes but perhaps I avoid them more than I should. There is some sort of stigma attached to "excessive" potato consumption compared to all of the other vegetables, but who is to say what "excessive" is? I don't see anybody criticizing the Asians for eating too much rice, for example.
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Post by Don Cuevas on Feb 26, 2009 21:54:47 GMT
Cottage fries, tortilla Española, proper French Fries: we love potatoes.
Cream of Potato Soup; French Potato Salad with a mustard vinaigrette, sometimes with cooked, fresh green beans.
Salade Niçoise with new potato salad as an important part.
But, they're not indispensable. I could live on bread, pasta, and to a lessser degree, rice, for my carbo intake. However, I'd miss potatoes.
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Post by gyro on Feb 27, 2009 6:14:23 GMT
"There is some sort of stigma attached to "excessive" potato consumption compared to all of the other vegetables"
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There is ? Or is this just another French pretention ?
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 27, 2009 6:22:07 GMT
There is! Fair or unfair, logical or not, potato consumption is frequently cast as the culprit in the more unfortunate, hickier manifestations of fatness.
"Potato-fed", "potato-face", "sack of potatoes", "meat & potatoes man" -- there are others, but those are some common things that are said which stigmatize "'excessive' potato consumption".
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Post by gyro on Feb 27, 2009 7:04:29 GMT
It's not a stigma that I've actually come across, in all honesty. Spud Features.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2009 7:34:21 GMT
"There is some sort of stigma attached to "excessive" potato consumption compared to all of the other vegetables" . . There is ? Or is this just another French pretention ? Actually, the French are absolute staunch defenders of the potato. I was talking about the Anglo world. Gyro, you need to get out more if you are unaware of such things. |
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Post by gyro on Feb 27, 2009 7:45:12 GMT
Or just not hang around with the sort of silly bigotted nutjobs you obviously do ........
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Post by hwinpp on Feb 27, 2009 7:46:30 GMT
There is! Fair or unfair, logical or not, potato consumption is frequently cast as the culprit in the more unfortunate, hickier manifestations of fatness. "Potato-fed", "potato-face", "sack of potatoes", "meat & potatoes man" -- there are others, but those are some common things that are said which stigmatize "'excessive' potato consumption". Couch potatoe! I like mine though. Whether as chips, crisps, mashed or roasted. |
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Post by tillystar on Mar 2, 2009 12:10:59 GMT
I love potatoes. Truely, deeply, madly.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2009 12:40:46 GMT
I am dismayed to know that the UN designated 2008 the International Year of the Potato! Think of all that I missed!
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Post by tillystar on Mar 2, 2009 12:55:13 GMT
You are joking? I completely missed this as well, I could have contributed so much by eating my own body wieght in chips and mash. How annoying.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2009 12:55:15 GMT
Did you not participate in the year 2008?
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Post by tillystar on Mar 2, 2009 13:58:18 GMT
I did, in my own small way. But I would have certainly tried harder if I had known about the significance of the year.
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Post by bazfaz on Mar 2, 2009 16:12:11 GMT
Has anybody any idea what the UN has designated this year to be? I hope it is not the Year of the Swede (though Northernbabe is very nice).
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Post by spindrift on Mar 2, 2009 18:59:05 GMT
I could eat potatoes all day every day. But then I'm Irish.
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Post by Don Cuevas on Mar 2, 2009 20:54:06 GMT
Now boiling potatoes to be smashed for lunch, with parsley and butter, s&p. The main course is some sliced pork loin with mushrooms in gravy, made a month ago and frozen. I am reheating the latter in the nuclear furnace.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 2, 2009 20:59:04 GMT
A few years ago I was on a strict diet and someone told me that I should avoid potatoes, because they don't give back enough in terms of fiber and nutrition to offset their calories. I guess I took that to heart. Someone disabuse me of this notion, please!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2009 21:14:54 GMT
I was trying to Google to find out what the vegetable of the year is for 2009 and absolutely the only thing I turned up was that 2004 was International Rice Year, and I guess we missed that, too.
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Post by BigIain on Mar 2, 2009 21:18:36 GMT
I guess that I have potato in various guises at least 4 times per week
Home made chips
roasted
mashed with lots of lovely butter
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Post by spindrift on Mar 2, 2009 22:55:02 GMT
Bixa - I have a book that tells me the exact composition of all foods...so if I can find it I'll post the details.Tomorrow.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2009 14:50:02 GMT
Like many people, I keep my potatoes under the sink. Since I probably don't eat them regularly enough, I had my seasonal surprise the other day when I went looking for some and encountered a forest of menacing sprouts reaching for me, some of them already 10 cm high.
Any ideas for keeping your potatoes under control as spring begins to arrive?
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Post by bazfaz on Mar 4, 2009 15:11:12 GMT
Buy smaller quantities. Possibly keep them in the fridge which discourages thoughts of spring in a potato.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2009 15:19:01 GMT
Have to disagree with the refrigeration of potatoes Baz. Refrigeration causes the potatoes to develop a sweet taste and to turn brown when fried. Better to buy in smaller quantities as you suggested. Or just brake off the sprouts or plant them.
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