Purple and Orange Frites
Saturday – the perfect day for fries. I was poking around the kitchen wondering what to wrestle together for dinner and I noticed I had a few purple potatoes left over from a few weeks back that I had ordered from Farmer Rick at Ecologic Farms, as well as two good sized yams from god knows where or when I got them, they last forever! I wondered to myself, “has anyone ever made purple and orange fries before?” Well, I do not remember ever seeing them on a menu or in one of my zillion cookbooks… but thought I would give them a go.. how could any type of french fry be bad? What I pulled together is not rocket science but it sure is tasty! Preheat your oven to 375.Peel 2 large yams and about 4 small to medium purple potatoes, then cut them up into nice thin slices, any shape you like. Get a large bowl and toss some oil into your frites, just enough to coat them. Next, add whatever spices you like. I went with this spicy hot smoked paprika, salt and pepper and some dried oregano. Bake your orange and purple frites until crispy. This should take anywhere from 35 minutes to an hour, depending on how thick you cut them. Just take them out when they reach your desired crispiness. Make up some homemade mayo to dip or be lazy and use good ole” Hellmans. Read More
Zucchinis and Purple Potatoes!
I would like to come up with a cool name for these cute little zukes featured above.. but I believe that they are simply called round zucchinis. Ahhh….shucks, I can”t help myself.. they will now forever be called the rocket ball zukes.. there! I picked up these rocket ball zukes at the St. Mary”s farmers market – from Ann Slaters Organics. The St. Mary”s farmers market is open on Saturday mornings, right beside the Canadian tire on Water Street. I also scored these completely weird and wonderful PURPLE potatoes. I believe these to be quite hard to find. I have been spying them in gourmet foodie magazines lately and have been itching to try them. Sean kept saying “weirrrrrd“, and I kept assuring him that they are not weird, just an old variety that fell out of favour with the general public. All around they were tasty, but I think I would do something interesting with them next time to show off their colour – like a potatoe salad. Read More
