'The United Nations have officially declared the year 2008 the International Year of the Potato in order to “increase awareness of the importance of the potato as a food in developing nations”
Take a look at this five facts about potatoes:
- a potato has only between 70 to 100 calories
- a potato is about 80 % water- a potato has potassium, vitamin C, iron, and fiber, protein, carbohydrates, calcium, and magnesium
- the potato was the first vegetable to be grown in space in 1995
- There are about 5,000 potato varieties in the world
Can you believe all these??
These are all new to me. Never knew so much in a potato beside the fact it taste great in anyway you cook them. Boil, stew, bake, deep fry juz to name a few.
My fav way is baking them and below are 2 different ways of making them. Baked Potato and chicken pie and extra cripsy potatoes.
Baked Potato and Chicken Pie, a recipe learned during Secondary School days. How i miss those days....
Extra Cripsy Potatoes, it really came up cripsy!!
