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!

 

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 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

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

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