When I was on the train this morning I heard a girl who is apparently a vegetarian caterer type telling someone on her phone that purple potatoes are finally in season. I was trying to hear what she was going to make with them but she got off the train.
I know you can use them to make any normal potato dish but am feeling uninspired and want to come up with something new and exciting and different.
Breakfast:
Biggest orange known to man
two hard-boiled eggs
(apparently I only wanted peelable foods?)
Lunch:
salad with chicken
oatmeal raisin cookie
Snack:
apple sauce
Dinner:
broiled scallops
string beans with almonds
brown rice
Lastly, a girl on 16 & Pregnant on MTV is named Sam. It's not me. Say it with me now: AMEN.
6 comments:
Maybe keeping it simple would showcase them nicely. Perhaps cut into eighths, toss with olive oil and salt and pepper in a casserole dish, and roast in the oven.
Include a dark green vegetable too for a striking combination of colors. Halved Brussels sprouts might work for that.
Honestly-I find they just get kinda black and icky looking, which is no fun. They'd likely be ok fried, but my experience baking them was lackluster. Cute, but meh.
Wow, really nice colour!! I bet my boyfriend would love them.. I don't think they exist here though..
roasting them is good, little olive oil and season to taste, we like ours with rosemary or dill sometimes....when I baked them I wrapped them in foil, but some butter, salt, and pepper in the foil with them, they do get very dark....my kids liked them roasted with brown sugar and a bit of honey, and you can bake them into crisps with some sea salt if cut thin and take as a snack, as twice baked potato they just looked ugly, but I've seen them used pureed and made into pretty pancakes with cheese added, or a dollop of sour cream or yogurt and fruit sort of like a crepe...couldn't hurt to try, good luck and report back what works for you please:)
Perhaps cut into eighths
On second thought, fourths might be nicer and could work if the potatoes are small. You could also roast halves with the cut side down.
The nice idea of baked crisps brings to mind also the commercially available purple potato chips. Frying chips could be difficult, but purple French fries could be fun and would be easier than fried chips.
The mention of a dollop of sour cream paints a nice picture of the dark purple with the white, a striking contrast one does not get with yellow potatoes.
Pureed purple potato soup would be pretty. If the color works out, swirl with the sour cream or yogurt.
Purple food can turn bluish under certain conditions, though.
Are Josh's parents having a seder? Bring the potatoes over there, steam slices and serve them for karpas.
I've never bought purple potatoes by themselves, but Trader Joe's sells bags of ''confetti potatoes'' which are those together with two other varieties, and they are great cut into chunks and cooked in a stew with tofu, lots of mushrooms, herbs and spices.
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