What would you say if someone served you purple mashed potatoes with your dinner?
Well, last night roasted garlic mashed purple potatoes topped with a chicken-stock, leek, and butter reduction accompanied breaded baked chicken and garlicky green beans on my husband's and my dinner plates. We both agreed that they were delish!
My husband Ryan and I ate purple mashed potatoes with our chicken and green beans for dinner last night.
I am calling them purple — when mashed they become a pastel purple. But because their color is more of an indigo, they are known in the gardening world as blue potatoes. Although I cannot remember specifically which kind I purchased, I looked some up online and concluded that they were either All Blue or Adirondack Blue, both of which can be oblong and have a purplish-blue flesh and skin.
In addition to blue potatoes, I planted Russian Reds and some variety of small gold potatoes. I think I harvested two of the golds (that's it!) and several of the reds, but the blues were the majority of my harvest. I guess we will be having more purple potatoes for dinner in the coming weeks.
This photo was taken in midsummer. It is a blossom
from one of the blue potato plants. Notice that
even the blossom is a pale purplish blue.
from one of the blue potato plants. Notice that
even the blossom is a pale purplish blue.
What potato varieties have you grown? Any good growing tips? Recipe ideas?
— Kristy L. Rustay, Marketing Manager
2 comments:
I love purple potatoes! I've only seen them twice in my life. Your photo being the second.
Yes, once cut, they were almost too beautiful to cook! I have seen small blue potatoes sold at a grocery store in with a mix of small red, gold, and blue potatoes. But, until I grew and cooked these, I had never seen anything like them before. I really didn't notice a difference in taste, just in the amazing color.
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