"Let them grow a bit bigger."
Small is beautiful and absolutely delicious. So we steamed them on top of the range. The month of May and the range is lit and I am still chain sawing logs for hot water, cooking and heat from the radiators.
Sunday, 10 May 2015
First Early Potatoes From The Poly-tunnel.
"Let them grow a bit bigger."
Small is beautiful and absolutely delicious. So we steamed them on top of the range. The month of May and the range is lit and I am still chain sawing logs for hot water, cooking and heat from the radiators.
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Nothing like the taste of your own potatoes. Yum. The first bite as your teeth go through the skin of the potato is divine, with lashings of butter. I feel a Homer Simpson moment coming on (drool from lips).
ReplyDeleteHi Sol. I rubbing the skin off a new potato with my finger nail. They are delicious when they are steamed and the butter melts on them. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteHow did you cook the snails Dave, delicious with garlic butter?
ReplyDeleteWhen did you plant your potatoes? ours are still not large enough they got set back by the frost, we resorted to buying some new potatoes imported from Italy as I'm now very fed up with last years spuds.
I believe you can eat the common European garden snail Anne. Didn't you once say that you owned a snail farm?
DeleteWe planted our new potatoess about 12 weeks a go. Even the minute ones are edible if you steam them. The one's outside aren't doing so well. The straw became very wet and heavy and they didn't like it. I removed the straw the other day and they are starting to recover.
Thanks!
Yes, we did have a snail farm when we lived in Wales, I still have a soft spot for them, they get removed and put in a place where they can't do damage. Slugs on the other hand are fair game, they eat our plants we wage war.
DeleteThey are a nuisance this year aren't they? I throw them into the hedgerows for the birds.
DeleteThanks for visiting my blog Dave.
ReplyDeleteYour potato photo brought back such memories.
As a child I lived in Lincolnshire - always good for potatoes - and we had a large garden. My dad always grew some early potatoes and the very first lot would always be picked in the early evening, put in a bucket, hot water poured over them and then dad would stir them with the copper stick and rinse them until they were clean. We would have them for supper smothered in good butter. Memories, memories.
Hi Weaver. Thanks for your childhood memories from your Lincolnshire days. I remember visiting West Cork in the sixties and early seventies. Every farmer grew a field of vegetables; potatoes, cabbages, onions, carrots, Cow cabbages and Mangels for the cattle and the horse. Wonderful memories. Thanks!
DeleteHave to agree with Sol's comment about a Homer Simpson moment when it comes to new potatoes Dave. Weather here has also been absolute pants, I think the combination of a few days of constant rain and strong winds may have done the only mature tree, a glorious Acer, to much damage for it to recover!
ReplyDeleteFootball I don't follow I'm afraid, far too girlie for moi but the result of the general election certainly did feel like a kick in me bollocks!
Hi John. It's been terrible weather here also. I think new potatoes and strawberries are superb. Not together though.
DeleteThe general election result was terrible. Anybody but the Tories.
Thanks for making me laugh.
porch pictures up for you Dave! lol it is a work in progress. Will be shopping the house for items to soften it all.
ReplyDeleteWill pop over to your blog and have a look at your new bungalow Sol. We watch all the renovation programmes on television. Sounds like you're having fun.
DeleteYum! Nothing nicer than freshly dug home grown spuds Dave :o)
ReplyDeleteYes CT you can't beat freshly home grown spuds.
DeleteThose taters look good dave! Nothing like the first harvest!
ReplyDeleteYes Kev they tasted really good. I love new potatoes early in the summer before it gets too hot and you don't want to eat them.
DeleteI always want to eat them!
DeleteWe always seem to make enough food for an army Kev. We end up cooking too many potatoes especially on a really hot summer day.
DeleteI love new tatties with lashings of butter. :-) Beautiful day up here in Tipp today Dave.
ReplyDeleteHi Deb. I love peeling them with my thumb nail to show their freshness. Beautiful day down here in West Cork too. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteThose potatoes look very tasty......makes me regret that we didn't get any into the ground this year.
ReplyDeleteYou can still plant lots of other kinds of vegetables Vera. Swedes the size of tennis balls are delicious. Thanks!
DeleteTootled over here from Kev's at An English Homestead, I have yet to get potatoes to grow for me. Thinking next spring I will try again. :O) Going to plant earlier than I have tried in the past. Now sweet potatoes we can grow here.
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