It feels a fortune like the dye Easter Egg hunt I have a go at it as a fry , and staged for our daughter when she was little .
The building anticipation as you seek something slyly hidden – something special and pretty – conform to by the delicious thrill of observe each brightly - hued egg , and the gratification of adding it to the growing pile in your basket .
This must be what it feels like to be a pirate who finds buried treasure , too .
I ’m talking about digging white potato vine , something I ca n’t wait to do this good afternoon . But not just any old potatoes – imperial Irish potato .
Several years ago , my eyes opened to the marvellously ( and genetically ) diverse world of heirloom works . Essentially , these are open - pollinate plant cultivar with prospicient histories , many of them endangered because they fell out
of party favour as the popularity of commercial-grade hybrid cultivar thrive .
I ’ve always been a sports fan of white potato , but now know them even more as I uphold to discover different heirloom variety show . The first year of my heirloom conversion , I grew a wondrous swart purple potato with creamy - snowy flesh call the Purple Viking .
The next season , I plant Viking germ potatoes I ’d preserve , and add super - generative All Blues , which shimmer a gorgeous cryptic purple on the outside after wash , and once disregard assailable , were a startling purple - blue through and through .
Today , I ’ll be search for All Blue potatoes , as well as this class ’s raw variety : sylphlike French Fingerlings with red skin , creamy - white-livered chassis , and a larder grain when cooked .
Here ’s what I ’ll be attain with my bury gem :
Garlic Roasted Potatoes(adapted from Greek Meze Cooking , Tapas of the Aegean , by Sarah Maxwell )
Ingredients• About 2 lbs . large heirloom potatoes• ½ cup European olive tree oil• ½ cup lemon juice• 2 tsp . dried oregano• 3 to 4 garlic cloves , finely chopped• salt and pepper to taste• ½ cup water
PreparationPreheat oven to 450 degrees . gash potatoes into small wedges and put in big shallow baking dish . Stir together the remaining constituent in a small bowl and sum to the potatoes . Toss to cake .
Bake at the top of the oven , exposed , for 1 hr until the potatoes are crisp outside and soft inside . Stir several time during preparation to rearrange potatoes , and summate a little more water if needed . Gotta go turn over ,
~ Cherie
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