🥔🍠🥔Welcome to Potato Lover’s Month🥔🍠🥔

Most of us eat potatoes in some form or another, either fried, chipped, roasted, mashed, boiled or baked. So, this is the month to look at the versatility of the potato.

The month was started in 1987 when Governor Booth Gardner wanted to help to highlight their versatility and importance to our diet. 

Whilst they are an important part of our diet thanks to the essential nutrients and being low in fat and calories, they are high in carbohydrates and should be eaten in moderation, especially as chips or roasties.  

There are also sweet potatoes, which chip, roast and boil. They are nice, but sugars are higher than the bog standard ones.

This month encourages people not only to try different potato recipes but also to support local farmers. Living where I do, I know what goes on when they grow potatoes and the amount of work put into it. 
I once went potato harvesting on the back of a potato harvester, but never again. I had to get off the harvester, as I felt terrible. 

You can do a lot with potatoes; they can be eaten with or without skins on, but are better for you with the skins on.  They can be made into all of what I mentioned above, together with potato bread, potato cake, crisps, wedges, and potato skins, to name a few. 
There are many varieties of potatoes, and generally, they are grown for a specific purpose; some will chip and roast, some will boil, etc. The best are small new ones straight from the garden. Generally, the varieties are available at different times of the year. Some varieties you won't see in the shops, but they are available for home growing, either in a large tub or in the garden.
We grow a variety called Pink Fir Apple, which is a main crop, harvested later in the year, but is lovely boiled or with salads.

Potato bread

Pink Fir Apple potatoes, some are more weird than those !

Potato cakes

To celebrate this month, you could try some different varieties and recipes, swap recipes with friends, or go visit a local farm and actually see how the potatoes are grown. 

Whatever you do, enjoy it, and post all things potato-related.
Let us know if you do anything different with potatoes, and let us have the recipe.