Listen up potato heads

OK, here we go:

So here's the allotment home grown potatoes with the Warwickshire dirt still on them.  Really looking forward to boiling those up and serving them with a bit of butter and mint.

Well spotted, there is s tinge of green in that front one.  Will have to see how deep that goes into the potato before making the decision to cook or ditch it.

Did you know that potatoes contain arsenic ?  It comes out during the boiling process, rather like the deadly toxin naturally present in red kidney beans.  Tinned ones are always pre cooked, but a recipe for disaster is to just put soaked but uncooked beans into a slow cooker.  The slow cooker doesn't bring them to a high enough temperature to remove the toxin.

That's why it is not recommended you use water from potatoes to make your gravy, use the water from the green veggies instead, it will have vitamins in.  Also, an old trick to make green veg look really green, used to be to drop a teaspoon of bicarb in the water.  Makes em lovely and green, but instantly destroys the vitamins in the food.

So if you didn't know already, you know now !

 

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Yikes... I didn't know about any of these poisons... When I microwave potatoes, I guess, I'm de-poisoning them... Cuz I ain't sick yet... At least, I don't think I am... (Perhaps sick in the head!)... Bought some beautiful red/purple "new potatoes" from the local Greenmarket the other day, Keith... You would love these little babies...