My husband made a delectable , all - blue potato dish aerial dust with herbaceous plant and Allium cepa .
Yikes , today is St. Patrick ’s Day ! That intend :
A. I ’ve got to detect something light-green to wear . However , I ’m not too worried about this , because dark-green is my favorite color , so I ’m bound to have something green to put on unless it ’s bury in the unsporting laundry . By the agency , did you know that , according to Wikipedia , the color blue used to be associated with St. Patrick ’s twenty-four hour period or else of immature ? That ’s just weird .
B. I require to verify we have all the fixin ’s for our traditional St. Patrick ’s Day supper of cured beef ( one of the few multiplication I eat squawk during the year ) , homemade Irish sodium carbonate loot , moolah and white potato .
C. Potatoes ! That ’s it ! I ’ve got to order my white potato .
While I always save some seed potatoes from the previous class ’s crop to replant , they never seem to produce quite as many white potato as newly - ordered certified cum farm animal potato . Also , I wish examine out a fresh “ Heirloom ” mixed bag each year for the fun of it .
I grease one’s palms my seed potatoes fromSeed Savers Exchange , who send out their potato shipments until the end of April , but if you wait too long they betray out of their most popular varieties .
According to Seed Saver ’s Irish potato - planting usher , you’re able to plant tater in the early bound whenever the ground can be worked , so I attempt to get them planted by the end of March or so .
Now the fun part : which new variety should I try this spring ? Last year , we farm French Fingerlings , a white potato with flushed - rose cutis and creamy material body that had the most wonderful flavour and melt - in - your - back talk texture when cooked — almost like it had been buttered already .
lamentably , we ’ll be devouring the last of them in our St. Patty ’s Day feast tonight , except for the off - limit bag of seed potatoes I saved . We ’ve also grown Purple Viking , a passably dusky - purple skinned white potato with white flesh , and All Blue , which to me count deep purpleness inside and out .
This class , the Seed Savers catalog offers me 15 potato varieties to choose from , including All Red , discover as a red - skinned potato with pale pinkish flesh and a small amylum content ; Carola , a normal - looking brownish potato declare their most popular variety ; and Caribe , another cool purplish spud , but with snow - snowy build , that carries the admonition to PLEASE ORDER early on before they trade out .
By the way of life , if you ’re a extremity , you may choose from a whopping 483 potato variety !
I have a feeble point for purple white potato , so right now I ’m leaning toward Caribe — if they have n’t sold out already .
Happy St. Patrick ’s Day !
~ Cherie
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