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Potatoes I've just made the tea and it has inspired me to write a review on potatoes. OK, so you are thinking that I am mad right! No, now give me a chance. We eat them all the time and yet we don't give them much thought. They are so versatile and can be used in the most amazing ways. ... Read review

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Spuds!

Advantages: You can do a million and one things with them
Disadvantages: Nothing!

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Cyprus New Potatoes - my personal favourite, as they are wonderful baked. They are usually in season from late winter to early spring and are really good scrubbed and boiled, but they are not ideal for mashing.

Desiree - distinctive because of the pink flesh but these are ideal for all types of cooking and are quite floury in texture.

Maris Piper - this is ideal for boiling or frying as it has a medium firm ...
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Roast potatoes - oh my they must be the yummiest way to have potatoes. Crispy and crunchy on the outside and soft and creamy in the middle. I know that some people just throw them into the deep fat fryer/chip pan, but I have to say that I am a traditionalist and I like them done in the oven. Though I do cook them with oil rather than dripping as is the tradition. For a lower fat version just brush them with olive oil rather than ... more

fairygirl12 08.07.2005 (26.08.2005)
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Spud U Like

Advantages: Easy to grow, Fun for Little 'uns, Tasty
Disadvantages: Require a lot of water, prone to bugs and diseases

...wondered why farmers regularly plant potatoes on their land? Well, potatoes are ideal for breaking up heavy soil, and in areas where you have a heavy clay based soil, they are ideal for breaking apart the soil into a more manageable tilth. They are also a very enjoyable and rewarding plant to grow, and good fun for the little ones. To start with, Potatoes are perennials. Each plant will grow quite large, with an average spread of 60cm, and the same ...
...and 4 cm wide. Generally, potatoes have a white or pinkish red skin with white flesh. However, there are also yellow fleshed varieties, and more surprisingly, blue fleshed varieties! These types of potato are often used in salads. Potatoes are great, as you can use them cooked, raw, and they store well for later use too. If you want to grow your own potatoes, bear in mind that they do not like hot temperatures. They are generally a cool season crop, ...

SnowiestElf 04.01.2006 · Read full review
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A Chip off the Old Spud

Advantages: Fashionable Accessory & Thieved
Disadvantages: None

...almost 94kg (207.2 lbs) of potatoes are consumed per person in the UK, and it is farmed on an estimated 19,500,000 hectares around the world. For this reason, it is not surprisingthat it is the world's fourth most important food crop.You may not have noticed, but 2008 has been declared by the UN to be the International Year of the Potato, to glorify its historical importance to mankind; "revive public awareness of the relationship that exists between ...
...Frenchman planted an acre of potatoes in the countryside and ensured that it was guarded visibly and heavily but only during the daytime. This allowed peasants to believe that the amount of protection was proportional to the worth of the crop, and so during the night they stole the plants and soon not only were they fashionable, they were also popularly growing all over the country.The potato was also the first food to have ever been grown in space, ...

mhshah 04.12.2008 · Read full review
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Hot Potatoz

Advantages: EASY TO GROW, VERY VERSITILE, LOTS OF DELICIOUS THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH THEM!
Disadvantages: NEED A BIT OF CARE AND ATTENTION AND LOTS OF WATER!

...will them to or not! Potatoes were always a big part of our staple diet while we were growing up. My dad was a Scotsman who adored potatoes and liked nothing better than to grow his own, in either our or a neighbours' back garden. As children, we weren't that great at eating our tatties, and I remember once dad put food colouring in our mashed potato to get us to eat it. Green, blue and pink I think it was, a small round ice-cream scoop of each! ...
...for a bag of seed potatoes for next years potato harvest, and yes, you've guessed it, they're going to be Maris Pipers! As anyone who has run (or worked in) a chip shop will know, Maris Pipers are the potato of choice for the best quality chips. I spent some time working in a kebab shop while I was at university and would get daily lectures from Socrates, the Greek owner, on the best chipping potatoes, how best to peel them, and what a crime it was ...

phoenixgreen 16.11.2006 · Read full review
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Tatties but not for tea

Advantages: Old fashioned ideas work well
Disadvantages: None

...you have just boiled your potatoes in. Fire lighting ¨ Your dried potato peelings will help get a blazing fire going in no time at all. Moist tobacco ¨ A small piece of potato carried in your tobacco pouch will help prevent your tobacco from getting too dry. Rheumatism ¨ My mother-in-law swears that if you carry a potato in your pocket it prevents you from getting rheumatism. Over salting food ¨ If a stew or soup is too salty just add two ...
...Again using the water your potatoes were boiled in, sponge out the remaining dirt. Cleaning a Decanter ¨ Chop raw potato into tiny pieces and insert into the decanter with warm water. Shake well to remove wine stains. Carpet burn on a wool carpet ¨ Rub the burn immediately with half a raw potato. This will remove the surface singing only. The brown tips left may wash out but if not trim with fine nail scissors. Dyeing Leather ¨ Before applying ...

COOOEEE 05.03.2002 (11.08.2002) · Read full review
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Maybe Haggis Next.

Advantages: You can't beat a new tattie straight from the garden.
Disadvantages: Take up a lot of space.

...to some spud facts. Potatoes are grown from tubers, known as seed potatoes, which are simply selected potatoes from last years crop. You can save your own, or you can buy seed potatoes in the Garden Centres, or from mail order seed companies. It is unwise to use eating potatoes as seed, as potatoes frequently carry viruses (harmless to us, but damaging to the plant), and seed potatoes are grown specifically to be virus-free. They are tested, and ...
...many subsequent years. Seed potatoes need to be chitted, or sprouted, in advance of planting. If you’ve saved your own seed, you will have stored them in a cool but frost-free, dark place – traditionally this would have been under the bed next to the chanty, in the days when the bedroom was like a fridge and the plumbing was mostly external. Remove them from wherever you have hidden them about a month before planting time, and set them ...

Aspen 27.02.2001 · Read full review
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