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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on April 20, 2013, 06:22:29 PM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/115724981
Oh my.
rocktivity (36,527 posts) Sat Apr 20, 2013, 04:11 PM
I've just been gifted with a collection of small potatoes
after which a photograph of small potatoes
Like these, about a third of them red. Too small to peel, obviously. I suppose I could cut them in two or three put them in a baking pan. Any other ideas?
Me, unusable junk like that, I'd just toss out into one of the vegetable gardens or flower gardens here, to rot and decay giving the soil additional nutrients.
LeftofObama (2,219 posts) Sat Apr 20, 2013, 04:26 PM
1. Here's a recipe for roasted (red) potatoes, but I'm sure it would work with plain and red mixed. Just cut them in half. You could double or even triple the recipe. I've made them before and they are excellent.
1 lb. potatoes
2 TBSP Diced Onion
2 TBSP Butter (melted)
1 TBSP Honey
1 tsp Dry Mustard
A pinch of salt and a pinch of pepper.
1. Preheat oven to 375. Lightly coat an 11x7 lined baking dish.
2. Place potatoes in a single layer and top with onion.
3. In a small bowl combine melted butter, honey, dry mustard, salt, and pepper. Drizzle over potatoes and onion.
4. Bake 45-60 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Ugly butts in:
Warpy (68,407 posts) Sat Apr 20, 2013, 04:33 PM
2. You can do all sorts of things with them
including roasting them whole and tossing them with butter and fresh parsley, cutting them in half and frying them, boiling them and using them halved or quartered in potato salad, or boiling and smashing them, skins and all, with heavy cream and chives.
pinto (97,474 posts) Sat Apr 20, 2013, 05:05 PM
3. Soak, shred fine, brown a bit in butter and make simple potato pancakes.
More of a lunch or dinner side would be my take.
(ed to add) Or just boil 'em all, slice, add toppings and plate.
madinmaryland (52,630 posts) Sat Apr 20, 2013, 05:59 PM
4. Potato Salad!! Just call me tater salad!!
It's that time of year!
Potato salad is "seasonal food" over in Maryland?
Odd; one can find it on the shelves of the grocery stores all year around, around here.
bif (15,297 posts) Sat Apr 20, 2013, 06:56 PM
6. Here's what I'd do...
Cut them in two. Toss with olive oil and a little salt, garlic powder and rosemary. Put on a baking and bake for about 45 minutes at 375°.
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Id wash them, and then nuke 'em.
once softened in the microwave, slather them with butter, sour cream, cheese and bacon.
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/115724981
Oh my.
Me, unusable junk like that, I'd just toss out into one of the vegetable gardens or flower gardens here, to rot and decay giving the soil additional nutrients.
Ugly butts in:
Potato salad is "seasonal food" over in Maryland?
Odd; one can find it on the shelves of the grocery stores all year around, around here.
FRANK, one does not throw out food of any kind, you know half the world is starving. You know people over seas would kill for the the potatoes you with no thought just throw to the wind.
Now, how your eating these things will help them is something my parents could not tell me.
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Now, how your eating these things will help them is something my parents could not tell me.
I've wondered the same thing in the past --
Mom :"think of all the starving children !"
Son : "indeed. By eating this food, I am helping to ensure they keep starving, mommy."
Mom :"Norman Bates ! You go to your room this instant !"
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I love small taters. Especially the red ones. I got 5lbs of them in the tater bin right now. Wash them real good, cut them into some chunks leaving the skin on, boil a little bit, slather them with butter and eat away!!!! :drool: :drool:
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Target practice!
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Target practice!
:lol: :lol: :lol:
H5!
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I love small taters. Especially the red ones. I got 5lbs of them in the tater bin right now. Wash them real good, cut them into some chunks leaving the skin on, boil a little bit, slather them with butter and eat away!!!! :drool: :drool:
Ditto--except I like them pan-fried in butter.
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Ditto--except I like them pan-fried in butter.
Right on, Delmar!!!! :cheersmate: :cheersmate:
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There's dozens of things you can make with new potatoes. And as long as they are scrubbed clean, you don't have to peel them. Just cut out any bad spots. I've never frozen them raw before, but I bet if they were blanched in boiling water and then dried, they would freeze well. Just throw what you needed into a stew or whatever.
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See how we easily come up with solutions and the primitives can't. :loser:
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cooked in a pot with green beans and bacon drippings.
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New potatoes are the best! I don't peel any potatoes, just wash em.
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See how we easily come up with solutions and the primitives can't. :loser:
Potatoes have got to be the easiest food to work with. How somebody can't come up with ways to use them is a mystery to me.
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Why do they always have to use the latest, trendy terms for everything? :hammer: "Smashed" potato...Skin on or off, mashed by hand orwith a mixer, they were all known as mashed potatoes until recently. Always reminds me of the middle class housewives trying to be Martha Stewart back in the '90's and ironing their cheap discount sheets before putting them in the 'linen closet'. :panic:
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Potatoes have got to be the easiest food to work with. How somebody can't come up with ways to use them is a mystery to me.
I didn't want to give the impression I'm anti-small potatoes.
But remember where I'm at, in the breadbasket of America.
I got only one stomach, and tomato and cucumber seasons are even worse.
If this one stomach can't handle it, no matter what it is, it goes out to recycle itself as nutrients for the soil.
Last summer, I fertilized one of the flower gardens pretty well, with a pick-up truck load of.....watermelons.
I got only one stomach, and these things don't keep forever.
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Ditto--except I like them pan-fried in butter.
That's how the misses fixes them, in a big, ol' skillet!!!! :drool:
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I have a hangnail. What should I do?.....just playing DUmmie this morning. :-)
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I didn't want to give the impression I'm anti-small potatoes.
But remember where I'm at, in the breadbasket of America.
I got only one stomach, and tomato and cucumber seasons are even worse.
If this one stomach can't handle it, no matter what it is, it goes out to recycle itself as nutrients for the soil.
Last summer, I fertilized one of the flower gardens pretty well, with a pick-up truck load of.....watermelons.
I got only one stomach, and these things don't keep forever.
Indeed. That is a different scenario though. You would use them as fertizer as you can't possibly eat them all, - whereas this primitive seems to genuinely not know what to do with them.
Its as if the primitive needs a specialized 'small potato pot' to boil them in - which is the first step to nearly every potato recipe known to man, save for making fries or a baked potato.
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I just toss them around in some olive oil, rosemary, pepper, garlic and paprika. Throw them in a roasting pan with some chicken that took a tumble in the same stuff and bake.
Duh hubby and the boy love it.
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Why do they always have to use the latest, trendy terms for everything?
Arrogance born of ignorance.
ETA:
I have a hangnail. What should I do?.....
Blame Bush! :tongue:
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Arrogance born of ignorance.
ETA:
Blame Bush! :tongue:
That's it. That's the ticket. If I hadn't worked all my life and had voted democrat instead of republican, I'd be on easy street now and not out there yesterday cutting firewood and breaking my beautiful fingernails.
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Growing up during WW2, Mom constantly reminded me at dinner time to clean my plate. "Think of those starving children in Europe", she would say.
I knew that cleaning my plate would hardly help those children in Europe, but it ingrained in me that, for whatever I had, I should be thankful.
Thank you Mom (RIP) for those small potatoes you fried with sausage!
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Bacon fat and a cast-iron skillet will make those taters yummy.
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Why do they always have to use the latest, trendy terms for everything? :hammer: "Smashed" potato...Skin on or off, mashed by hand orwith a mixer, they were all known as mashed potatoes until recently. Always reminds me of the middle class housewives trying to be Martha Stewart back in the '90's and ironing their cheap discount sheets before putting them in the 'linen closet'. :panic:
You said it. If it's not trendy terms, it's pretentious crap.
They're potatoes, not jewels from the rings of Saturn. Can't the DUmmy figure out what to do with some potatoes without getting advice from fellow DUmpmonkeys?
I like to make mashed potatoes with the skins on, mashed with butter and milk (sour cream, if I have it) using my old hand-held masher. Eat them with sausages, like marv, or with about anything.
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I guess this DUmmy doesn`t pay attention...have extra potatoes,you make spaghetti sauce.
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Bacon fat and a cast-iron skillet will make those taters yummy.
Yes. Yes, they would.
:-)
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See how we easily come up with solutions and the primitives can't. :loser:
Oh, I'm sure what's involved here isn't any search for use of the small potatoes.
One has to understand the psychology of the primitives.
The primitive was "gifted" the potatoes, and wants to boast to the other primitives about how he's such a remarkable person other people freely bestow presents upon him.
The primitive just wanted to brag about that, nothing more.
The primitives give themselves away, in so many ways.....
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cooked in a pot with green beans and bacon drippings.
Thank you most kindly for the idea to finish off my Sunday supper!
:cheersmate:
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Thank you most kindly for the idea to finish off my Sunday supper!
:cheersmate:
Glad to be of assistance. I remember my mom making them that way when I was growing up.