The Plan:
Day 1: Cheesy scalloped potatoes (no ham), Apple and orange slices
Day 2: Beet soup in acorn squash bowls
Day 3: Homemade pizza
Day 4: Grilled steak, Roasted root vegetables with maple glaze (parsnips, carrots, sweet potatoes)
Day 5: Baked potato bar with sour cream, salsa, shredded cheese
Day 6: Kielbasa and vegetable hash
Day 7: Mushroom and wild rice soup with potatoes
Pantry Shuffle:
Out of Storage: (preserved when in season and coming out of my root cellar, freezer, canned, or dehydrated stash)
- Green peppers (diced and frozen in fall)
- Beets
- Apples
- Garlic
- Acorn squash
- Homemade broth (frozen)
- Steak from Mastadon Valley Farm meat share
- Potatoes
- Parsnips
- Carrots
- Sweet potatoes
Into Storage:
- Nothing this week!
Notes: Potato week
Every year for a week in February it is time to celebrate the potato. This year’s potato week runs from the 4th to the 14th. The celebration could not have come at a better time. I have a lot of potatoes in storage and a few of them are starting to sprout which means I have to use them up now! So I’m going potato heavy this week. I’ll be adding the potatoes into just about every meal. From soups and hash to baked and roasted, they are going to be cooked in every fashion.
Here are a few things you may not know about the potato:
- A potato is a tuber not a root
- Sweet potatoes are actually not potatoes
- Potatoes are the first food ever grown in space
- Potatoes are environmentally friendly because they don’t require as many resources or fertilizers to grow
- Green potatoes indicate the potato contains solanine, which is toxic. Do not eat green potatoes!
- A potato contains more potassium than a banana
- Potatoes are gluten free
- If your potatoes grow sprouts you can plant them in your garden to grow more potatoes
Let’s celebrate the potato this week!
