I know potatoes are a noble root. Their hearty nature has saved nations from starvation and their profit margin has helped build business empires. But I just made a decision that when I left home as young man with a taste for the bizarre, that I would never follow the daily ritual of eating another friggin spud. It worked until I married Mrs. Potato head.  My wife loves, no L-O-V-E-S, potatoes. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack time or just about any time is a good time for potatoes. I do not share this love of spud, but to keep my wife happy and avoid expensive legal fees, I do begrudgingly, eat the occasional potato.

I wish I had a shot of when I stupidly said to The Chef that I didn’t like potatoes because it was a look of sadness, bewilderment and disgust all at the same time.

As I mentioned in my last post it’s starch week at the institut.

Potatoes….. Potato

I never realized that there were about 2 dozen ways to serve potatoes. This day we are doing karma sutra type things to potatoes. I suppose I should explain before I start getting email. You think you are most creative individual with let’s say an act. In this case it’s a potato. You boil em, bake me, fry em and you put stuff either in them or on them. I thus came the food orgy known as poutine. Fries with gravy and cheese curds. I thought this was the highest level of potatoism that anyone could get. Then came potato day.

Couple of Ways to Spice Up Your Potato Life

Even More Ways to Skin a Potato

My Contribution to Potato Day.

Now I feel like Bubba from Forest Gump, there is one more style of potato I will speak about briefly because to speak any longer a curse or a potato blithe would fall across the nation. Had to give it some drama, it’s a potato, just a potato.

Here a description of very famous potatoes – do not speak these words unless amongst friends.

Robuchon potatoes are the creme de la creme of potatoes. There are many recipes on the net claiming to be the correct recipe. But I was there and a saw what happened and saw what happened with the milk and the butter (oh the butter). But I am forbidden to tell the tale of Robuchon Potatoes.

But if you want so good cheap entertainment here are a couple of entertaining videos that contain half of the truth. And Robuchon is acting nicely in both videos because apparently if you messed up his potatoes, you would be “shunned” as the “Chef du Purée”. No that’s not a typo, it’s a position with Robuchon’s restaurant.