67goingon50 is celebrating the potato this week.
These recipes for hot and cold dishes are made with any old standard garden-variety potato.
For many people concerned about good health, weight gain or high carb counts. potatoes are - if not forbidden - certainly limited.
Which is a shame because potatoes have their merits. They provide fibre, have plenty of vitamins and minerals just below the skin and no fat.
Potatoes also contain a type of fibre called resistant starch that feeds friendly gut bacteria and improves digestion. Potatoes that have been cooked and cooled have higher levels of resistant starch.
Summer is such a great season for potato lovers. Few buffet, BBQ or picnics will lack a potato dish. And while it may sound odd to offer a hot/warm potato dish in the sushine, scalloped potatoes or just plain baked potatoes are surprisingly popular. Even better for cook, you can get them ready in advance and forget about them until it's time for them to be cooked.
For carb-phobes, it will be easier to take a small portion or two without going back repeatedly for more.
Here are a few of the Blogger's favourite summer potato dishes
-- hot, warm and cold. Most of them are budget-friendly
vegetarian, make ahead, healthier, budget conscious
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| Spanish Potato Omelette with Spinach, Tomatoes & Peppers. Perfect taste of Spain that's as good as it looks. Simple home-made or bought-in Sun-blush tomatoes provide unexpected bursts of flavour. |
Vegetarian with vegan option; prep-ahead, budget friendly
All of the intense flavour of the original without excessive richness. Available in two skinny versions: one sprinkled with crumbled feta; the other, plain.
lower-fat, make ahead
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| Using milk instead of cream, this rich soft creamy wodge of potato slices melded together into glorious starchy creaminess. As good cold (and with less resistant starch) as hot. Great with meatloaf. |
easy-peasy, wallet-friendly
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The perfect baked potato - fluffy interior & crispy golden skin - is a thing of wonder. Cooking them is an art...get them just right with these tips. |
Easy-peasy no-knead bread, prep 24 hours ahead, Light wholemeal
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| Crusty pillowy bread that's a doddle to make is a welcome twist to a wallet friendly loaf. Unusual but wonderful; moist with lovely seasoning. |
Lower-fat, baked not fried, oven or air-fryer; easy, inexpensive
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| More-ish Vegan Indian-style 'chip butties': a few steps but easy-peasy; punchy flavours with knock-em-dead gorgeous coriander sauce |
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These recipe have been developed by B M Lee/ Bright Sun Enterprises. and
may not be reproduced without the author's written permission.
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