I made a potate

[sabotabby]

Awhile ago I had some potatoes and let them go too long and they sprouted, so I planted them, and they grew new potatoes, which for some reason surprised me a great deal.

I got overly frustrated with life this morning and took my frustrations out by weeding rather than murdering an elected official, and dug up some of the potatoes while I was at it:



Then I roasted them with some tofu and mushrooms and fried up some kale and look:





Anyway, delicious. The potatoes were the one thing in my garden that was an unmitigated success this year, and they were kind of an accident.

Comments

[contrarywise]

Congrats, that's very cool! We also had some accidental potatoes this year, in that we tossed out some small potatoes that had started to sprout and turn green, but some non-human animal decided that the trash was not the place for the potatoes, and so they removed them and deposited them by our back porch. By the time we noticed them, they were growing happily under the leaves so we've left them to do their thing.

[sabotabby]

Some animal decided to eat many of the potatoes, but not all. I don't know that I will end up with more potatoes than I originally put in (I think I put in about 8 and have gotten five large ones and a bunch of little ones so far) but they are tougher than I thought.

[minoanmiss]

Potatoes are good that way.

[sabotabby]

Love potatoes. Unfortunately they're one of those things that I like eating and don't like cooking.

[minoanmiss]

Oh that's interesting. I find them really easy to cook. What don't you like about cooking them? (I am always here for cooking discussions. Or I could STFU.)

[sabotabby]

I'm not sure what it is exactly? I just find they take longer than most vegetables and don't go in everything, so I need to do more planning. And washing.

[minoanmiss]

They do take longer to cook than most vegetables. It's their internal density. You can either start them first (when I'm cooking multiple veggies I add each at a different time anyway) or cut them smaller (but that risks disintegration).

[sabotabby]

Yeah. I just like being able to dump everything in the pot because I'm massively lazy.

[minoanmiss]

Laziness inspires efficiency. ;)

I sound all Organized but really when I'm cooking vegetables together I just start by cutting up the longest cooking/the onions and throw that in the pot, then cut up the next and throw it in, and so on. The time it takes to cut up each one gives the ones in the pan a staggered head start. This might not work so well with someone who is faster at chopping than I am.

[sabotabby]

Me too. But I'm easily distracted.

[symbioid]

Woot! Nice tato job! (Now I want potatoes LOL)

[sabotabby]

There's a potato surplus apparently. It's your duty to eat them.

[broken_record]

My last potatoes sprouted too. I should have done this! Kale tastes good.

[sabotabby]

I thought it'd be much harder than it turned out to be.

[armiphlage]

Awesome accident!

[sabotabby]

It was!

[mallorys_camera]

I had great fun with my own potato patch this year. It was like digging up buried treasure! 😀

[sabotabby]

I've never done them before. And mine never flowered, so I had no idea that some were ready.

[springheel_jack]

we had the same experience this year with our taters.

[sabotabby]

Were they tasty? Mine were tasty.

[rdi]

Hooray for accidental potatoes!

[sabotabby]

I still have some left. Must plan another potato-based thing.

[ltmurnau]

I couldn't grow anything but poppies and garlic in my garden this year because the deer have completely overrun the neighbourhood. But I have some window boxes on railings where they can't go (until they learn stairs) and the beans were done, so I planted some sweet potato sprouts from some that had tried to grow out of the drawer. They're doing fine, and even if I do not have tubers (the miniature vegetable harvest each year is a laff riot) there will be nice leafy vines.

[sabotabby]

On the plus side, you get deer. Which I would squee mightily over.

[ltmurnau]

You can squee if you like, but the deer around here are the kind that like to catch and keep eye contact with you while they void their bowels on your lawn....

[sabotabby]

Haha. I know they're probably not as exciting up close. But they're so beautiful.