Subject: Red potatoes for French fries
Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking
From: Bobo Bonobo® (CLASSACT at BRICK.NET)
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 18:26:13 -0700
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fried in peanut oil. Nice.
--Bryan
From: Omelet (omp_omelet at gmail.com)
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 03:36:35 -0500
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Bobo Bonobo® wrote:
> fried in peanut oil. Nice.
I'll bet! :-)
Reds are my #1 favorite spud followed by Yukon golds.
Y'all can keep Idahos. :-p They taste like dirt compared to the other two!
YMMV and all that of course.
From: kilikini (kilikini1 at NOSPAMhotmail.com)
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 06:43:26 -0400
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Omelet wrote:
> I'll bet! :-)
>
> Reds are my #1 favorite spud followed by Yukon golds.
>
> Y'all can keep Idahos. :-p They taste like dirt compared to the other
> two!
>
> YMMV and all that of course.
I love those two kinds best as well. BTW, have you noticed the price of potatoes lately? What is going on?
From: Bobo Bonobo® (CLASSACT at BRICK.NET)
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 03:50:35 -0700
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kilikini wrote:
> I love those two kinds best as well. BTW, have you noticed the price of
> potatoes lately? What is going on?
I haven't noticed the regular price being higher, but I have noticed that they haven't been going on sale much.
From: Omelet (omp_omelet at gmail.com)
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 06:26:42 -0500
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kilikini wrote:
> I love those two kinds best as well. BTW, have you noticed the price of
> potatoes lately? What is going on?
Hm, I'll have to look. I've not bought any for a month or so.
Everything is going up due to fuel costs I imagine. It all has to be brought in by truck, and that costs gas.
Fortunately, spuds are easy to grow. I've got a couple of 25 gallon pots that I'm fixin' to experiment with some reds.
Leave a few red potatoes in a cool, dry dark spot and they start to sprout. Stick 'em in a pot of sandy soil and go from there. :-)
From: kilikini (kilikini1 at NOSPAMhotmail.com)
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 08:21:08 -0400
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Omelet wrote:
> Stick 'em in a pot of sandy soil and go from there. :-)
Heck, I live in Florida. Sandy soil is something I can EASILY get my hands on. :~)
From: elaine (elaineg at ca.inter.net)
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 08:27:40 -0400
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I've never liked sweet potatoes, but last week I had some sweet potatoe fries dusted with a spice - coriander or cumin, I think Yesterday I bought one sweet potatoe to see if I could duplicate the recipe. They were really good!
From: Omelet (omp_omelet at gmail.com)
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 09:19:00 -0500
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elaine wrote:
> I've never liked sweet potatoes, but last week I had some sweet potatoe
> fries dusted with a spice - coriander or cumin, I think Yesterday I bought
> one sweet potatoe to see if I could duplicate the recipe. They were really
> good!
Mmmm... Yam fries are our favorite way to eat them too. ;-d
That and pan fried yam patties.
From: Omelet (omp_omelet at gmail.com)
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 09:17:51 -0500
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kilikini wrote:
> Heck, I live in Florida. Sandy soil is something I can EASILY get my hands
> on. :~)
I'm not sure how long the growing period is, but I can stick them in the greenhouse when it freezes if I have to. Your growing season is longer than mine. It might still be early enough. :-)
Stacked old tires make good potato beds too.
You can get LOTS of potatoes off of a single plant!
From: kilikini (kilikini1 at NOSPAMhotmail.com)
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 11:09:34 -0400
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Omelet wrote:
> I'm not sure how long the growing period is, but I can stick them in
> the greenhouse when it freezes if I have to. Your growing season is
> longer than mine. It might still be early enough. :-)
>
> Stacked old tires make good potato beds too.
>
> You can get LOTS of potatoes off of a single plant!
Thanks, I may try that! (Of course you know I'll need to get back to you for advice. <g>)
From: Omelet (omp_omelet at gmail.com)
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 10:34:34 -0500
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kilikini wrote:
> Thanks, I may try that! (Of course you know I'll need to get back to you
> for advice. <g>)
The gardening lists have more experience... but I don't mind. :-)
We can learn together.
I've not tried growing spuds since I was in high school, but I still remember how much fun it was!
From: Steve Wertz (swertz at cluemail.compost)
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 14:35:52 GMT
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Bobo Bonobo® wrote:
> fried in peanut oil. Nice.
They make excellent potato chips, too. These are some of my
favorite chips:
http://www.terrachips.com/products/terra-red-bliss.php [archive.org]
But expensive.