On Wed 23 Nov 2005 07:32:04p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Elaine
Parrish?

> Putting the white potatoes through the ricer is the way to go. I bet
> your potatoes are good. White potatoes fluff so good when baked, but
> when boiled and "whipped", they just flatten out. By you ricing them,
> they fluff a lot, don't they? I'm waaaay too lazy for that! <g>

Yes, they do turn out fluffy. I started using the ricer when the old-
fashioned potato masher just took too much strength. :-) Found that I
liked it better. Honestly, I think it's really less work.

>> > English Peas:

>> My aunt used to pour the contents of the can, w/juice, into a small
>> Pyrex dish, along with butter, salt and pepper, and baked them in the
>> oven 'til they were simmering.
>
> tee hee hee. I did that a time or two in my pre-microwave days. Too many
> pots, not enough burners.

Maybe that was her reason, I never thought about it. She would do the same
with cream style corn. I think maybe it was so she didn't have to watch
the pans so closely.

>> Do you ever make red potatoes (or new potatoes) in a white sauce with
>> string beans or shelly beans? My family used to make that fairly
>> often, too.
>>
>
> Yes. I love new potatoes in white sauce - especially with spring onions.
> My grandmother would always fix those after my grandfather would dig
> them up with me "helping"(and I use the term loosely!). Just recently,
> my dad, now 73, was talking about new potatoes in white sauce and he
> told me that the reason that they always made them with white sauce was
> because if they didn't, new potatoes would ...er, uh... <blush> give one
> grievous intestinal distress and, well, you know. So, there was a reason
> that they made that dish just that way.

Hmm... I never knew that. One of the potato salads I make uses new
potatoes, but they're mixed with a lot of other ingredients. Maybe that
helps, too.

> I like string beans, but I love shelly beans. About the only way I find
> them anymore is canned. Now and then, I can get them from a local farmer
> in season, but not so often.

My parents used to grow several different types of beans, pole beans,
shelly beans, and Kentucky Wonders. Most of the time she cooked them with
bacon or bits of ham.

--
Wayne Boatwright *¿*
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A chicken in every pot is a *LOT* of chicken!