|
Posted to rec.food.cooking
|
|
|
Best side ever
On 21/06/2014 11:35 AM, jmcquown wrote:
> On 6/21/2014 1:27 PM, dalep wrote:
>> On Saturday, June 21, 2014 11:12:29 AM UTC-6, 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
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> DaleP
>>
> 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. 
>
Yebbut!! They are delicious!!!! Worth it for special occasions!
Graham
|