Sunday, October 19, 2008

Blue potatoes

If you have been following Darren's blog lately, you'll know that he has been photographing potato harvest. One night this week he came home with a gift one of the farmers had given him. Blue potatoes. For Sunday dinner today we tried them out.
















The blue potato with skin.
















The blue potato peeled.
















Mashed blue potatoes. Darren, Kevin and I weren't hesitant to try it but Ethan was. He thought it looked like frosting and frosting with gravy or butter did not sound very appetizing to him. He finally tried it and the potatoes were gone by the end of dinner. They tasted just like white mashed potatoes. Purple potatoes with brown gravy doesn't look very pretty, however.

12 comments:

Delene said...

That is very interesting! I would wonder about the color. I had white mashed potatoes today. Where do they market blue potatoes?

Susan said...

Idaho?

Carl and Pat said...

Looks like a great Halloween dish to me!!!

Tracie said...

I have never heard of that before. Ethan's right though....it looks like frosting!

Carrie said...

LOVE IT! How fun!!!! I gotta get me some of those.

Mary Ann said...

That is awesome.....how fun!

Rose said...

I've never heard of that. Perfect for Halloween.

Becca Queen of Chaos said...

Wow, that's cool!

Slade said...

We planted purple carrots this spring. They really did turn out purple. Very funny about the potatoes. I had never heard of those.

Thomas said...

Wow, I want to try those mashed potatos. Next time I'm in Idaho, I'm stopp'n in for some. -Maile

Amelia said...

do they taste the exact same as regular ones????

marie said...

Wow! I think they look really pretty! Although I can see how the brown gravy would kind-of change that:).