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  • Alain Maréchal
    Full Member
    • Dec 2010
    • 1286

    #46
    Originally posted by Flosshilde View Post
    Have a look at this, & eat your words
    http://www.amazon.co.uk/In-Praise-Po...9&sr=1-1-spell
    Not a chance - everybody is frantically trying to find elaborate ways of making a basically unappetising tuber interesting, whereas there are so many plants that are much more interesting, and need little disguise, just simple preparation.



    all having a wonderful time aren't they?
    Last edited by Alain Maréchal; 20-02-13, 23:27. Reason: citation of evidence

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    • Ferretfancy
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 3487

      #47
      Originally posted by Alain Maréchal View Post
      Not a chance - everybody is frantically trying to find elaborate ways of making a basically unappetising tuber interesting, whereas there are so many plants that are much more interesting, and need little disguise, just simple preparation.
      No! No! There's nothing nicer than well minted Jersey Royals with a generous dollop of butter!

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      • MrGongGong
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 18357

        #48
        Pink fir apples
        The "jersey royal" marketing ploy doesn't fool me
        try growing International Kidney oh look they are the same but without the hype and mileage

        Great range of Vegetable & Flower Plants, Vegetable & Flower Seeds, Potatoes, Gardening Equipment, Compost, Fertiliser & Lawns. 100% satisfaction guarantee Buy Online

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        • Alain Maréchal
          Full Member
          • Dec 2010
          • 1286

          #49
          Originally posted by Ferretfancy View Post
          No! No! There's nothing nicer than well minted Jersey Royals with a generous dollop of butter!
          In other words you're suggesting that the potatoes have to be disguised with herbs and fat!

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          • Nick Armstrong
            Host
            • Nov 2010
            • 26523

            #50
            Originally posted by Alain Maréchal View Post
            In other words you're suggesting that the potatoes have to be disguised with herbs and fat!
            Don't you ever cook anything using fat or oil, or with seasoning or herbs?!
            "...the isle is full of noises,
            Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
            Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
            Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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            • Alain Maréchal
              Full Member
              • Dec 2010
              • 1286

              #51
              Originally posted by Caliban View Post
              Don't you ever cook anything using fat or oil, or with seasoning or herbs?!
              Indeed I do, but only to enhance the flavour, not to create flavour that is not inherent in the original vegetable. (inherent in - can I say that or is it tautologous ?)

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              • teamsaint
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 25195

                #52
                Does deep fat frying not enhance the flavour of a raw potato?
                I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                • Nick Armstrong
                  Host
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 26523

                  #53
                  Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
                  Does deep fat frying not enhance the flavour of a raw potato?
                  I wouldn't bother, teams. M Maréchal clearly has a palate so attuned only to the admittedly delicious complexities of Madame Maréchale's Parisian sauces, that the simple and innocent taste of the humble 'pomme de terre' does not register with him.

                  Il fait comprendre et non pas condamner !

                  "...the isle is full of noises,
                  Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                  Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                  Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                  • Flosshilde
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 7988

                    #54
                    Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                    I wouldn't bother, teams. M Maréchal clearly has a palate so attuned only to the admittedly delicious complexities of Madame Maréchale's Parisian sauces, that the simple and innocent taste of the humble 'pomme de terre' does not register with him.

                    Il fait comprendre et non pas condamner !

                    One wonders what other simple pleasures he spurns, his palate sated by Parisian sophistication.

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                    • Alain Maréchal
                      Full Member
                      • Dec 2010
                      • 1286

                      #55
                      Nothing highly attuned about my palate, I assure you, and now I've given up work I do most of the cooking. Fortunately I can use the excuse of weight reduction to banish earth apples!

                      I recall once in my faltering german confusing erd apfel with pferd apfel, to much amusement (but then as the expression has it, the german sense of humour is no laughing matter).

                      Il faut comprendre et non pas condamner - perhaps a good motto for these boards, but it's hard to break the habit of a lifetime!

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                      • amateur51

                        #56
                        As a child, one of my delights was to go out with my father when he was lifting the first row of early new potatoes. They always seemed to appear like magic under his fork and I loved the smell of the earth & watching the wriggling worms too.

                        Back inside, scrubbed and boiled and then slathered in butter, what a treat these potatoes were. Truly, even now their unique flavour provide my madelaine moment

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                        • vinteuil
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 12793

                          #57
                          Originally posted by amateur51 View Post

                          Back inside, scrubbed and boiled and then slathered in butter....:
                          ... curious notions of child care, them Welsh. Were the NSPCC called?

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                          • amateur51

                            #58
                            Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                            ... curious notions of child care, them Welsh. Were the NSPCC called?
                            I wondering which Herbert would take that phrase 'out of context' as our politicians are fond of saying

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                            • Nick Armstrong
                              Host
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 26523

                              #59
                              Originally posted by Alain Maréchal View Post
                              Il faut comprendre et non pas condamner - perhaps a good motto for these boards, but it's hard to break the habit of a lifetime!


                              A counsel of perfection, I readily concede!
                              "...the isle is full of noises,
                              Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                              Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                              Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                              • vinteuil
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 12793

                                #60
                                Originally posted by Caliban View Post


                                Il fait comprendre et non pas condamner !

                                ... I seldom condemn. Tho' I have been known to contemn...

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