On 6/21/2014 1:12 PM, Janet wrote:
> In article >,
> says...
>>
>> There is a restaurant in a hotel near us. The restaurant has had it's ups and downs.
> Got a new chef, manager recently. We decided to give it a try for a
> little birthday dinner. I had the duck breast, and it was wonderful.
> The best thing was the vegetable served with it. It was tiny, tender
> Brussels sprouts and teeny-tiny potatoes. I have never seen potatoes
> that small, they were about 1 inch across.
>
> Don't they sell those in US supermarkets?
>
> In UK they are called (and sold as) "new potatoes", the first of the
> season's crop, very tender and delicious.
>
> Janet UK
>
The do sell "new potatoes" here in the US. The OP didn't mention if
they were red-skinned. The ones I buy are.
There is sometimes the problem of *any* smallish red potato (not tiny as
described) sometimes also being sold as "new potatoes". Sure, they're
still small, but not as teeny tiny as he described. They'd probably
work just fine anyway. They were cut before being cooked with the tiny
brussels sprouts. You could always cut the slightly larger "new"
potatoes smaller and probably replicate the dish.
Jill