Potatoes

Where would we be without potatoes? Roast dinners wouldn't be half as nice, sausage and mash would just be a plate of sad looking sausages and teenagers everywhere would have to exist without that student staple of baked potato and cheese. Potatoes come in a wide range of varieties, but the two main types are earlies and maincrop. They're both panted at the same time, but earlies are harvested earlier than maincrops, which tend to be the ones stored over winter. I only started growing potatoes last year. I always thought they needed masses of room and my garden is tiny. But then I started talking to my nan (who is a genius gardener) and she told ...  Read the complete review

Potatoes are a realy easy vegetable to grow but unless you have a huge area you are never going to be able to avoid buying them in a supermarket completley. They need to be planted in early spring, my first attempt was last year and i used red potanic potato seeds brought from a garden center, potatoes will grow in almost any soil but not clay. Plant your potato seeds in the ground about 1 inch deep and about 1 foot apart from each other, you will neeed to water them thoroughly once a week, you will get a plant growing on the top of the soil which will flower, when this begins to flower you have got new baby potatoes under the ground ready to eat ...  Read the complete review

I love potatoes, mash being my favourite way of eating them. On a holiday in Peru my husband and I agreed that we didn't much like the food except for the yellow potato soup and mash which were delicious. The flavour made us think the cooks had added cheese but were assured it wasn't so. As someone who loves cheese in my potato mash this was ideal as there was flavour with no added calories. I was very pleased to read that the scientists have now developed a variety which can be grown in this country. They are called Phureja and I have bought them for a premium price in Sainsburys. They will still have to be a bit of a treat at the present price but if they become ...  Read the complete review

Hot Potatoz! I love a decent tattie bogle, or, as you perhaps may call them, a spud. Potato, spud, tattie, however you label them, they are infact one of the most versatile vegetables around. What’s more, they are easy to grow. Infact, they grow whether you 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, ...  Read the complete review

When John F. Kennedy visited Berlin in 1963, he said in German, “Ich bin ein Berliner” (I am a Berliner) which people liked a lot because a Berliner is not only an inhabitant of Berlin but also a kind of doughnut filled with jam. If the President of the US of A can confess being a food item, I can do the same, here is what I have to say: “Ich bin eine Kartoffel” (I am a potato). I love potatoes, I can eat them every day and I’d suffer if I had to live in a country with a potato-free cuisine. Let’s look at the different terms for this member of the nightshade family thus learning something about its history. The English term ‘potato’ comes from the Spanish word ...  Read the complete review