petey
Senior Cook
I got a 10lb bag of eastern white potatoes on sale for 1.99
Anyone have any suggestions ? how to cook them......any good ideas?
Anyone have any suggestions ? how to cook them......any good ideas?
Katie E said:Okay, petey, you've already set the tone with your "chicken tar tar" thread. Are these real potatoes?
I've never heard of eastern white potatoes and I lived in the east for 30 years. Maybe someone else can help.
BreezyCooking said:Actually, there IS such a thing as "Eastern White Potatoes". Long Island potatoes were frequently called that, as were taters from New Jersey.
I'm assuming they're pale, thin-skinned potatoes. The type that many folks around here call "White Rose" potatoes. If so, you can boil & mash them; boil, slice & make home-fries from them; boil, slice & make potatoe salad. They're pretty much an all-purpose potato - what many recipes call a "waxy" potato.
BreezyCooking said:First off, let me give you what might sound like a dumb hint, but it certainly helps me out when I buy sacks of potatoes.
Since many recipes call for a certain "pound" of potatoes, rather than go to all the trouble of actually weighing potatoes, I've found that you can come real close to the number required by just roughly counting the taters in the bag & dividing by the bag pound. Granted, you have to adjust a little when you have tiny potatoes mixed in with gigundas - but you get the drift. It's always worked out really well for me.
Michelemarie said:I recently bought 10 lbs. of all-purpose potatoes for, I'm not kidding, 50 cents. I made a large pot of potato chowder in the crock pot and a large casserole of twice baked potato casserole. I have four large spuds left that I am saving to bake and top with all the fixins. Good luck!
amber said:It's not unusual to find inexpensive potatoes this time of year since eastern potatoes are harvested in the fall and they last quite a long time in cool and dark conditions.
petey, some suggestions are mashed, french fries, scalloped, potatoe pancakes, shepards pie, beef stew, chicken stew, roasted, and the list goes on and on.
Goodweed of the North said:How I love the humble spud. Unfortunately, I'm not willing to give up my toes or feet, or my eyes or kidneys for the flavor of that luscious tuber. There are just so many thing that can be done with potatoes. why do they have to be so full of starches and so lacking in nutrients?
Oh, Goodweed, that is so sad. It is true that folks with certain medical conditions can not tolerate white potatoes, like diabetics with kidney problems, but the rest of us do get measurable amounts of nutrients from potatoes. Especially phosophrus, iron and potassium, with potassium being the evil nutrient for kidney challenged people. There is 1.1 mg of iron in one small potato, which really is a decent amount of iron.