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someone dumps unwanted small potatoes on a primitive
« on: April 20, 2013, 06:22:29 PM »
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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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Re: someone dumps unwanted small potatoes on a primitive
« Reply #1 on: April 20, 2013, 06:25:53 PM »
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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Re: someone dumps unwanted small potatoes on a primitive
« Reply #2 on: April 20, 2013, 06:39:29 PM »
Quote from: franksolich on April 20, 2013, 06:22:29 PM
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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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Re: someone dumps unwanted small potatoes on a primitive
« Reply #3 on: April 20, 2013, 06:47:04 PM »
Quote from: vesta111 on April 20, 2013, 06:39:29 PM
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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Re: someone dumps unwanted small potatoes on a primitive
« Reply #4 on: April 20, 2013, 06:47:58 PM »
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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Re: someone dumps unwanted small potatoes on a primitive
« Reply #5 on: April 20, 2013, 07:00:51 PM »
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Re: someone dumps unwanted small potatoes on a primitive
« Reply #6 on: April 20, 2013, 07:39:15 PM »
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Re: someone dumps unwanted small potatoes on a primitive
« Reply #7 on: April 20, 2013, 08:11:33 PM »
Quote from: I_B_Perky on April 20, 2013, 06:47:58 PM
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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Re: someone dumps unwanted small potatoes on a primitive
« Reply #8 on: April 20, 2013, 09:46:32 PM »
Quote from: Delmar on April 20, 2013, 08:11:33 PM
Ditto--except I like them pan-fried in butter.

Right on, Delmar!!!!  :cheersmate: :cheersmate:
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Re: someone dumps unwanted small potatoes on a primitive
« Reply #9 on: April 20, 2013, 10:28:47 PM »
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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Re: someone dumps unwanted small potatoes on a primitive
« Reply #10 on: April 20, 2013, 11:15:57 PM »
See how we easily come up with solutions and the primitives can't.  :loser:
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Re: someone dumps unwanted small potatoes on a primitive
« Reply #11 on: April 21, 2013, 12:27:13 AM »
cooked in a pot with green beans and bacon drippings.

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Re: someone dumps unwanted small potatoes on a primitive
« Reply #12 on: April 21, 2013, 05:56:58 AM »
New potatoes are the best! I don't peel any potatoes, just wash em.
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Re: someone dumps unwanted small potatoes on a primitive
« Reply #13 on: April 21, 2013, 07:33:53 AM »
Quote from: Firekrakka on April 20, 2013, 11:15:57 PM
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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Re: someone dumps unwanted small potatoes on a primitive
« Reply #14 on: April 21, 2013, 07:37:41 AM »
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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Re: someone dumps unwanted small potatoes on a primitive
« Reply #15 on: April 21, 2013, 07:38:52 AM »
Quote from: miskie on April 21, 2013, 07:33:53 AM
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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Re: someone dumps unwanted small potatoes on a primitive
« Reply #16 on: April 21, 2013, 07:41:46 AM »
Quote from: Delmar on April 20, 2013, 08:11:33 PM
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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Re: someone dumps unwanted small potatoes on a primitive
« Reply #17 on: April 21, 2013, 08:07:23 AM »
I have a hangnail. What should I do?.....just playing DUmmie this morning. :-)
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Re: someone dumps unwanted small potatoes on a primitive
« Reply #18 on: April 21, 2013, 08:14:29 AM »
Quote from: franksolich on April 21, 2013, 07:38:52 AM
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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Re: someone dumps unwanted small potatoes on a primitive
« Reply #19 on: April 21, 2013, 08:24:29 AM »
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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Re: someone dumps unwanted small potatoes on a primitive
« Reply #20 on: April 21, 2013, 09:06:14 AM »
Quote from: jtyangel on April 21, 2013, 07:37:41 AM
Why do they always have to use the latest, trendy terms for everything?

Arrogance born of ignorance.

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Quote from: JohnnyReb on April 21, 2013, 08:07:23 AM
I have a hangnail. What should I do?.....

Blame Bush! :tongue:
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Re: someone dumps unwanted small potatoes on a primitive
« Reply #21 on: April 21, 2013, 09:26:15 AM »
Quote from: BlueStateSaint on April 21, 2013, 09:06:14 AM
Arrogance born of ignorance.

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Re: someone dumps unwanted small potatoes on a primitive
« Reply #22 on: April 21, 2013, 10:10:53 AM »
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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Re: someone dumps unwanted small potatoes on a primitive
« Reply #23 on: April 21, 2013, 11:53:34 AM »
Bacon fat and a cast-iron skillet will make those taters yummy.
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Re: someone dumps unwanted small potatoes on a primitive
« Reply #24 on: April 21, 2013, 01:12:47 PM »
Quote from: jtyangel on April 21, 2013, 07:37:41 AM
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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