Added too much salt to your dish? Don’t sweat it—throw a small chunk of raw potato into your creation and let it absorb all the excess salt right out. Leave the potato in the dish for 10 minutes.
Can you ever have too much mashed potatoes? Probably not, but since we aren’t one to assume, here’s a scalable formula that helps you figure out how to make mashed potatoes for a party of one all the way up to a table of 12.
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Get fancy with added garlic, herbs, and cheese at your own discretion. This formula is based on one serving. Multiply the potatoes, milk, and cream by the number of people you want to serve to scale up.
Freshly dug potatoes are nothing like those bought from the store. Unfortunately, the only way that you can get to experience them is by growing the potatoes at your home and to experience the tasty potatoes fresh from the garden. Growing potatoes in containers comes with several advantages. Protecting the potatoes from critters, which really love them, is much easier when they are in the containers. In addition, the last thing you will need to worry about is weeds since the containers are able to ensure that the weeds do not attack your crops. And in any case, this can be quite a fun project to undertake at home together with your kids.
Whether you are growing your potatoes in containers, pots or bags, the advice is the same. First, you will need to put about 7 inches of the best quality compost manure in your containers. Multipurpose compost is a great alternative that can be used as well. For best results, it is essential that you consider mix your compost with well rotted homemade compost/ farmyard manure and/ or sharp sand. The mixture should be 50/50. The benefit of ensuring your mix contains organic material is that it becomes much easier to water your potatoes throughout the whole season. The good thing with the organic material is that they contain highly valuable plant food that can boost the growth of your crop. Chicken manure pellets also works great too.
How to peel potatoes really quickly. This simple trick show you a speedy way to peel your potatoes without using a peeler. Great if you’ve got a lot of potatoes to peel. You need to boil the potatoes, but you could try parboiling them and then putting them in the oven if you want roast potatoes, or cutting them for chips.
