On 3/4/2011 8:57 AM, Janet wrote:
> In >,
> says...
>>
>> On 3/4/2011 8:16 AM, Janet wrote:
>>> In >,
>>> says...
>>>>
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>> I've seen all sorts of potatoes I don't understand. Fingerlings, for
>>> one.
>>> I
>>>> was looking for the fingerling mix but couldn't find it-
>>>
>>> I've never heard of fingerling potatoes so had to look them up
>>>
>>> http://www.veggiegardeningtips.com/fingerling-potatoes/
>>>
>>> Does anyone here grow them? Do they taste like other new potatoes, or
>>> are they more like sweetpotato?
>>>
>>> Janet (UK)
>>>
>> I don't know the situation in the UK but very small potatoes in the US,
>> white, red and fingerlings, are basically regular potato in taste.
>> Despite their relatively high cost they are great. I suspect they are
>> rather like the seasonal "new potatoes" I knew as a child in Britain.
>
> In my childhood, a seasonal delight was when the new potatoes arrived.
> Men used to cook them on the street (on a brazier), and sell them in a
> brown paper bag, salted, as a delicious hot snack. Nowadays supermarkets
> here sell new potatoes (egg shaped and pale yellow) imported all year
> round but they don't taste anywhere near as good as the ones we grow at
> home, just dug straight from the garden and rushed to the pot. We always
> have a celebratory meal which is just, a big plate of fresh new
> potatoes, boiled, buttered, salted.
> I
>> think they taste best boiled for a little less time than normal potatoes
>> but, IMHO, they can be nuked quite successfully if you are in a hurry.
>> You can also get small *blue* potatoes and they taste quite good but I
>> can't get around my initial distaste for the color.
>
> Me neither, I grew blue-skins one year out of curiosity but didn't
> bother again.
>
> Janet

I might mention that the flesh of those potatoes is really blue not just
the skins. I think they might be common enough in Peru but are often
available in Whole Foods here.

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