You can't deny it. You can even make vodka out of it!
Discuss what is the best singular staple food.
There's a potato for every occasion. Breakfast? Hash browns. Lunch? Fries. Dinner? Baked potato. Having a party? Potato chips. Wife divorced you and took the kids? Vodka.
Truly the most versatile tuber.
Breakfast: home fries
Lunch: latka, potato soup, chips
Dinner: mashed potatoes, scalloped potatoes, salt potatoes
Divoreced: even more vodka
Truly the utilitarian spud
I wish I could figure out how to make it savory enough, bad scalloped potatoes are undercooked, watery, and flavorless, and I desire to avoid this
I haven’t done enough for a recipe, but so far, slicing potato thinly and layering with milk cheese and seasoning hasn’t produced the exact result as restaurants, for example
So without knowing more I could only give general advice, but the serious eats article has a lot of useful stuff that might help you narrow it down.
My version uses nutritional yeast and cashews for the sauce, but a small bit of cinnamon with the paprika really helps.
this is a pretty good start, but add in shredded cheddar and finely chopped broccoli. works with russet or yukon potatoes
Peru to Eastern Europe: "ah you think the potato is your friend, but you merely adopted it. I was born to it, molded by it, I did not see cereals till I was colonized and by then it only made me gassy!"
Hermano, you must be out of the loop.
Back in the 1930s the Soviets managed to invent the in vitro fertilization and out-of-body human fetus development method by implanting the egg inside of a potato.
The resulting children born from these were named The Belarussians.
You'd need a way to convert the starches into sugars first.
I found a few forum threads where someone got as far as realizing that, declared maybe they'll try, and never came back. But no mentions of completed bean beers.
I thought potatoes were mostly starch, how does vodka work if that's the case?
they put enzymes in it, either from grains or on their own. same way you'd do for beans.
if its shit it can always be distilled unrecognizable into vodka too!
Nutritious, easy to grow, versatile as an ingredient, they truly are the greatest single food.
If anything, they have less bias because they know the subject matter so well.
- You can also do that with any other grain and get a better drink.
- You cannot live off just vodka
I'm sure a pol will object to both these points but you'll be wrong.
You can also do that with any other grain and get a better drink.
Lies.
You cannot live off just vodka
You can file a complaint with my father.
I’m sure a pol will object to both these points but you’ll be wrong.
Boo me all you want. I'm sinking on this ship knowing I'm correct.
You can also do that with any other grain and get a better drink
Yeah unless you wanna mix something
We can thank Quechua scientists for giving us some of the best agricultural technology out there. I don't have links, but its pretty interesting to read about some of the agricultural labs that were built in the andes ages ago to make this delicious monstrosity:
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No. Jackfruit is the real superfood. First comes the fruit. Obviously, it is super-sweet, and not stinky like it's sibling fruit they sell in South-East Asia. You want papad? Sweet, salty, get them all. Pickled raw jackfruit? Simply the best. Want to eat something that tastes like potato, but granier? Jackfruit seeds at your service.
You want dosa? Jackfruit with urad dal and dosa rice would like to have a word with you - again, sweet or plain, that's up to you. Are you craving sweet stuff? Steamed jackfruit cakes. Want something more texturey? Coconut flake and jaggery dumpling, with jackfruit as the cover. Want some other alternative sweet dish? Jackfruit custard and kheer exists.
Did I forget something? Ah, yes. Freeze it, and you end up with ice-cream. Jackfruit is also used to make experimental kevlar substitute, and can stop bullets. Vegan leather comes from jackfruit. Jackfruit also secretes natural latex of a certain kind. Just be careful enough, and you could have a makeshift, sweet-tasting condom. Ignore the last one, I just made that up.
i'm happy to see your enthusiasm for jackfruit. i find its nutritional value lacking, especially since in the west it's mostly used as a meat substitute, but has very little protein in it. guess i should give it another try.
Interestingly, the cuisine local to our region is such that the lack of proteins in Jackfruit is supplemented by other veggies, especially lentils, beans and wild mangoes. And obviously, lots of fish (which is not vegan, but they don't need to mind this, the above vegan substitutes will do just fine).
people eat Jackfruit seeds in Tulu Nadu
ripe jackfruit is also nearly impossible to find in the west, it's the best fruit there is
Sounds really amazing, but can it satiate my Polishnes (alcoholerino)? Oh and does it have a Korean Pop Song?
Thought not B)
Potato gang stay winning
But fr sounds real interesting, I'll read up on it.
It probably does not grow in Poland, as it requires tropical and subtropical climates, but it is truly an amazing exotic fruit. It is the most superior vegan food, after coconut.
And you know what, Jackfruit has wine, because it is truly the most exotic fruit worthy for champagne socialists🍷
And there's a really cool song too. Btw, raw jackfruit has a meaty texture, making it superior to soy substitutes.
Comprehensive list of GOAT agricultural products:
- potatoes
- corn
- cabbage
- soybeans
Once a species gets these it's game over for everybody else. Honestly OP and should be nerfed.
Wheat might get on this list too.
If I was stuck on an island and I had one crop to choose it'd either be sweet potato or amaranth. Probably amaranth if I'm being honest because under the right conditions it will spread like wildfire and you get (pseudo)grains out of it along with spinach-except-better, but amaranth is not as well known in the west these days. At some points in human history there's archaeological evidence that amaranth family crops were of major importance though.
But sweet potato is right up there too. It also spreads like a weed and requires virtually no intervention under the right conditions. Shit, you can even try drowning sweet potato and it'll be like "Alright, bet" and it'll continue to grow. Tuber+greens is a winning combination.
Reject monocropping, return to Mayan mountain terrace farming with a different potato species on every level for 800 vertical feet
There isn't many things more amazing than new potatoes in early summer. Unpeeled, with butter and salt. Maybe some spring onion or garlic on top.
New potatoes are so crazy good. Makes normal potatoes seem like an unfortunate byproduct in comparison
fresh/ripe potatoes are slightly sweet, but not in the cloying way that sweet potatoes are
Also depends very much of the breed. I find NZ kumara to have a better balance than American breeds.
