by jra » Wed May 25, 2016 7:39 am
luddite wrote:I read in the newspaper today that eating potatoes for four or more times per week increased the risk of high blood pressure by 11%.
That makes my blood boil ,I'm going to stop ...
Reading newspapers.
I'm not a great fan of potatoes personally. They need a bit of sexing up, just like pasta and noodles.
Chips and fries are alright with some salt. Decent bonfire ash baked potatoes are quite nice with an appropriate sauce.
I used to harvest the bastards when I was a teenager and those were nice to eat, rather than the bland supermarket jobbies.
We called them teddies. The farmer went down with a single furrow plough and afterwards people picked them up and also dug out the remaining potatoes, lobbing the ones that had green on them.
I used to live next door to a farm and did this for free. But in return, my dad, mother and I used to get ridiculously cheap home and caught produce from the farmer, including tomatoes (a red heaven, even grown on the vine tomatoes in a supermarket aren't nearly as good), truly free range eggs, radishes, carrots, swedes, cauliflowers, sweetcorn, lettuces, cabbages, rasperries, strawberries, loganberries, you name it. Also, the odd pigeon, rabbit and pheasant.
[quote="luddite"]I read in the newspaper today that eating potatoes for four or more times per week increased the risk of high blood pressure by 11%.
That makes my blood boil ,I'm going to stop ...
Reading newspapers. :grrrrr:[/quote]
I'm not a great fan of potatoes personally. They need a bit of sexing up, just like pasta and noodles.
Chips and fries are alright with some salt. Decent bonfire ash baked potatoes are quite nice with an appropriate sauce.
I used to harvest the bastards when I was a teenager and those were nice to eat, rather than the bland supermarket jobbies.
We called them teddies. The farmer went down with a single furrow plough and afterwards people picked them up and also dug out the remaining potatoes, lobbing the ones that had green on them.
I used to live next door to a farm and did this for free. But in return, my dad, mother and I used to get ridiculously cheap home and caught produce from the farmer, including tomatoes (a red heaven, even grown on the vine tomatoes in a supermarket aren't nearly as good), truly free range eggs, radishes, carrots, swedes, cauliflowers, sweetcorn, lettuces, cabbages, rasperries, strawberries, loganberries, you name it. Also, the odd pigeon, rabbit and pheasant.