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May 7

Desiree And Purple Potato Seeds and Organic Produce!

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I’ve been searching around where to find purple potatoes, all blue potatoes, and desiree potatoes online. I’ve found several sites selling seeds for each.

Desiree Potato Seeds:

http://www.groworganic.com/org-desiree-potato-lb.html

http://www.seedsavers.org/Details.aspx?itemNo=1490(OG)

Desiree Potatoes (Produce):

http://www.seedsofchange.com/garden_center/product_details.aspx?item_no=PS12505

http://www.potatogarden.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=PG&Product_Code=77DES&Category_Code=

All Blue Potato Seeds:

http://www.groworganic.com/organic-all-blue-potatoes-lb.html

http://www.seedsofchange.com/garden_center/product_details.aspx?item_no=PS12493

Purple Potatoes (Purple Majesty):

http://www.potatogarden.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?screen=PROD&Store_Code=PG&Product_Code=77MAJ&Category_Code=NSP

Purple Potatoes (Purple Peruvian Fingerling):

http://www.potatogarden.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=PG&Product_Code=77PPV&Category_Code=NSP

Purple Potatoes (Purple Viking):

http://www.potatogarden.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=PG&Product_Code=77PVK&Category_Code=NSP

 

All of these websites I full support and trust, check them out for great potatoes and seeds! thanks for stopping by!

Desiree Potato Potato Purple Potatoes

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Mar 31

Purple Potatoes, Good for Your Health?

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Purple, is personally my favorite color, closely followed by yellow. Now, purple may not only be a cool color, but also great for your health. According MSNBC, any sort of purple tinted potato can lower your blood pressure! Purple potatoes, can lower your diastolic blood pressure, and if cooked right, can make you lose weight! Now obviously deep fried purple potatoes won’t lower your blood pressure, or help you lose weight; That is anymore then your regular fries will, because it’s not only in the nutrients themselves, but the way you prepare them, try having some friends over and making baked purple potatoes, to surprise you guests. Use light cheese, and no butter, for a healthy meal!

 

Dargo Goldfield Potato Purple Congo Purple Potatoes

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Mar 9

Mom’s Famous Homemade Potato Soup Recipe

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This is my mothers famous homemade potato soup recipe, it’s the best potato soup recipe I’ve ever had, period.

Ingredients:

5+ Idaho Potatoes, Cut and Peeled into small/medium chunks.

1 Small Onion Chopped

Carrots, Sliced. (how many ever you want)

1 can, cream of celery soup.

1 8oz. Cream Cheese.

1 Cup of milk,

4 or 5 cans of chicken broth, enough to cover potatoes (My mom uses 2 cans of chicken broth, and 2 boxes of chicken broth.)

Cooking:

Boil the potatoes, onions, and carrots in the chicken broth until fork tender. Add salt and pepper for taste (my mom only adds pepper herself.)

Take out about 3/4 of broth, then add the cream cheese, and cream of celery soup to it, in another pot. Whisk until cream cheese has melted. Slowly ad the milk to this mixture, then slowly add this mixture to the potatoes, stirring it in, simmer until done.

Top with bacon and cheese and serve with corn bread (optional but recommended.)

Potato Potato Soup Potato Soup Recipes

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Mar 2

Potato of The Day: Pink Fir

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The Pink Fir, is much like the Purple Congo, and the Dargo Goldfield, being a very unusual looking potato, it has a mottled pinkish-yellow skin, and is a very strange shape, having knobby bulbs, and random enlargements here and there. It has a ton of knots. On a scale of  one to ten, one being extremely waxy, and ten being extremely doughy. The Pink Fir is a three, meaning it’s slightly waxy, but not too waxy and firm. This waxiness makes it good for chopping up in salads, and boiling, but not so good for making a baked potato sadly.

Here’s a picture of the pink fir:

A pretty ugly potato

Pink Fir Potato

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Mar 1

Potato of the Day: La Bonnotte

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This is a even more unique potato of the day, being one of the rarest potatoes in the WORLD. the La Bonnotte potato is a delicacy of it’s own, being the 5th most expensive food in the world, it’s worth anywhere from 200-700 USD a pound. The La Bonnotte has a very small window of harvesting, being only the first week of may. It is so tender, that they have to hand harvest it. It is required to be fertalized with sea algae and seaweed, giving it a nice salty taste. It can only be ate within 5 days of it being harvested, so it is normally flown to it’s destination, hours after harvesting. This variety of potato is only cultivated on Noirmoutier, an island off the coast of western France, and just 100 tons are produced every year, therefore making it one of the rarest foods on earth.

Check out my fourth post Potato of the Day: Pink Fir
Check out my second post :Potato of the Day: Dargo Goldfield

Rich people's spud

La Bonnotte Potato

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Feb 28

Potato of the Day: Dargo Goldfield

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The history of this potato is quite interesting, it was found by a man by the name of Ralph Barraclough. He found it INSIDE a Lyre bird that he found scratching on the ground, near a old gold field, his, the last part of the name.

The Dargo Goldfield has a pinkish purple tinted skin, with a multitude of layers on the inside. The first layer being a bleach white, the second being a mottled almost gemstone like mix of purple and white. The third layer has a white star burst ring, then in the direct center is a yellow star burst, it is probably one of the most beautiful potatoes I’ve ever seen

Check out my first post Potato of the Day: Purple Congo

And my third post: Potato of the Day: La Bonnotte

Here’s a picture of the spectacular potato:

A beautiful potato.

Dargo Goldfield Potato

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Feb 27

Potato of The Day: Purple Congo

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The Purple Congo, is a purple potato that originated in Peru,  It has a cylindrical, long shape with many deep eyes, which are also known as pits. It is black skinned with a bright purple flesh (or inside).
Purple Congo’s are high in antioxidants, and iron. They were used as dye for religious ceremonies in the Andes, by native tribes. It has a high resistance to degeneration, and is a very good potato over all, you can’t really find these in your local grocery store, so finding them will be hard, but the rewards will be amazing. Imagine if these potatoes existed and were known of in the old world. they would have made people millions, just from the purple dye.

Check out my second post: The Potato of the Day: Dargo Goldfield

Benefits of Potatos Potato Purple Congo

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Feb 26

Mashed Garlic Desiree Potatoes

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Ingredients

Serves: 6
  • 8 medium Desiree potatoes, cubed
  • 1 tablespoon crushed garlic
  • 100g margarine
  • 60ml single cream or milk
  • sea salt and crushed black pepper to taste

Preparation method

Prep: 5 mins | Cook: 25 mins

1.
Place the potatoes in a large pot, and pour in water. Bring to the boil, and cook for about 10 minutes, or until easily pierced with a fork.
2.
Drain the desiree potatoes, and add the garlic and butter. Mash until the butter is melted. Mix in the cream/milk along with the sea salt and crushed black pepper. Mash the potatoes until soft and creamy, you can use an electric mixer if prefer.

Desiree Potato Potato Potato Recipes

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Feb 26

Desiree Potatoes

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Desiree Potatoes are a red skinned potato that were artificially bred, in 1962 in the Netherlands. it has a Yellowish inside, or what is called flesh (gruesome right?) it is a favorite with allotment holders, because of it’s extreme resistance to drought, but it does not fair so well on large-scale, or organic growing, so this is more of a backyard project potato! It is slightly waxy but firm, and does good in any type of dish, I use it personally for crock pot cooking, and hearty soups! It’s most recent popularity is due to the British TV chef,  Delia Smith

Features of the Desiree:

The foliage of the potato plant, are a medium to dark green, with a bright purple color throughout it. Flowers on this plant happen to be red-violet fading to white. and the stems a beautiful purple color, which is a key highlight of this unique plant!

Desiree Potato Potato

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Feb 24

Red Hot French Fries

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This is my personal recipe for red hot french fries, I have my own fryer, and I use it a ton.

1 gallon plastic bag
2 teaspoons of tobasco sauce
3 teaspoons of cumin
3 teaspoon of cayenne pepper
5 large Potatoes (3″-6″)
1/2 teaspoon of Cinnamon
1 teaspoon of black pepper
2 teaspoons of salt
1 small or medium sized fryer
Oil necessary to fry with the fryer you have (each fryer requires a different amount)

First peel the potatoes and then slice them to about half inch wide rectangles, the length being that of the potatoes.
Second, open the plastic bag and pour in the tobasco sauce, cumin, cayenne pepper, cinnamon (for a slight sweet taste) black pepper and salt. Then seal the bag shut and shake it until everything is homogenized. Then, take the uncooked fries into the bag and shake until ALL fries are coated. finally just stick them in the fryer, take them out and enjoy!

Potato Potato Recipes

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