Lifestyles Ideas Management - About Potatoes

Just today, the coffee lady was talking about cooking in the kitchen and making potatoes meat patties that was so delicious that her elderly mum would love to eat them. She mentioned about putting a little of MSG in the mixture and I was sharing with her about the chicken essence (either cubes or granules) Maggi brand which we, Singapore love so much and we put them into every dishes we could think of.
There was once I was so crazy about potato that I cooked them every weekend, mashed potato, potato ball, potato patties, potatoes soup and best of all chilled potatoes salad.

This nutritious tasty tuber – now eaten all over the world and the main ingredient in over 406,000 recipes over the Internet – was first cultivated in the South American Andes mountains over 4,000 years ago. The potato consists of about 80 percent water and 20 percent starch. One medium size potato (about 150g) contains 100 calories if you boil it or bake it without fat. Website www.thehotpotato.com lists these nutrients in a medium size potato: 3g protein; 0g fat; 22g carbohydrates.
Apart from being fat and cholesterol-free, the potato is also high in vitamin C, potassium and a good source of vitamin B5 and dietary fiber. The sweet potato belongs in the same family as morning glories while the white potato belongs to the same group as tomatoes, tobacco, chilli pepper, egg plant and the petunia, according to www.geocities.com
Despite the popular notion, the majority of nutrients are not found in the skin, but in the potato itself. Nonetheless, leaving the skin on the potatoes retains all the nutrients and the fiber in the skin. It also makes potatoes easier to prepare according to www.potatoes.com.
This is the United Nations’ International Year of the Potato which will focus on the importance of the potato in providing food security and alleviating poverty.
The potato as a fashion accessory. Don’t laugh. France’s Louis XVI and his queen Marie Antoinette liked to wear potato blossoms. He in his buttonhole and she in her hair.