On 6/21/2014 1:27 PM, dalep wrote:
> On Saturday, June 21, 2014 11:12:29 AM UTC-6, Janet wrote:
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>>> There is a restaurant in a hotel near us. The restaurant has had it's ups and downs.
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>> Got a new chef, manager recently. We decided to give it a try for a
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>> little birthday dinner. I had the duck breast, and it was wonderful.
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>> The best thing was the vegetable served with it. It was tiny, tender
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>> Brussels sprouts and teeny-tiny potatoes. I have never seen potatoes
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>> that small, they were about 1 inch across.
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>> Don't they sell those in US supermarkets?
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>> In UK they are called (and sold as) "new potatoes", the first of the
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>> season's crop, very tender and delicious.
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>> Janet UK
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> Our "new potatoes" are usually two inches across. I did a little research and apparently our Trader Joe's sells tine potatoes. We just got Trader Joe's, so i will check it out. The potatoes at the restaurant were no more than one inch across. And yes, they were very tender and delicious.
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> DaleP
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Were they small thin-skinned red potatoes? I buy them for next to
nothing from a local farm stand.
You can buy all sorts of tiny potatoes. I won't buy the silly
"fingerlings" which are *way* overpriced. Takes twice as many potatoes
to serve 2 people and the cost is ridiculous. They're still just
potatoes.
Jill