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"Skinning" Spuds not Peeling

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8 yrs ago

Saw this method and a friend says it works and is very, very quick.

Cut round and just through the skin at the centre of a potatoes very shallowly, put in saucepan pour over boiling water and allow to cook. Once cooked remove from pan, drain hot water into another pan, drop cooked spuds into iced water so cool enough to handle and "twist and   peel off skin. Can dump "peeled" spuds back into hot water and bring back to boil if needing them very hot for mashing etc.

Bit like skinning tomatoes and very easy, especially if like me hate peeling potatoes

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Seggie. Ta, Vivity. I'll try that. The other day, with nothing to do (well, nothing I wanted to do), I thought I'll peel the avocadoes by hand. Lovely (I hope) vitamins just under the skin and from now on, I'll keep doing this. Adore avocadoes, cheese and gherkins on grain bread.

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Abby
8 yrs ago

As I use my home grown potatoes, they are always fresh hence a good scrub leaves the tender skin on them which is quite deliscious.

I do cut off the eyes with which I make future potatoes.

As I don't eat anything white I no longer eat potatoes , but for the girls I will occasional bake potatoes in tneir jackets , which the girls eat skin and all...

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Abby
8 yrs ago

Sweet Potatoes are nice and not white ....

Totaly agree Abbs 

Abby I don't eat enough potatoes to even think of growing them but if wanting to make a Potatoe Salad for friends I find they look much nicer without the skins, so this is one easy way. 

Pete your self inflicted dietary restrictions must suit you but certainly wouldn't suit me, presume you don't eat Apples or Bananas ? Know what they say "an apple a day keeps the Dr. away" seems like a good idea to me.

I do eat organic apples Skins and all.. 

I had a sweet potato I had purchased from shop and gave to hubby to plant...he just dug them up.  You should see the size of two of them.   One of them weighed over a kg  LOL.

Think in all they weighed about 4kg.  I, like you Abby will eat with skins on as that is where the vitamins are just under the skin.  Just a quick scrub and then steam them.  I will eat with some grated low fat fetta cheese.   A meal in itself for me.

Also just went out into the garden and picked a huge bunch of beautiful kale.  The bugs so far have not attacked either.   Made  two kale, pies.  Just chopped the kale and washed and spun dry, threw in some chopped spring onions a bit of pepper, parsley, fetta cheese and a tasty cheese about an equal amount and two eggs.  You can also throw in some dill as well but i had none so it was not added.

Used short crust pastry baked blind for a few minutes and then put the filling in and covered with puff pastry, some milk wash on top and sprinkled over some sesame seeds.  Baked until nice and brown at around 180 degrees.

Vivety my diet is not "Self Inflcted" .. But my choice like every bodies ..

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Abby
8 yrs ago

Viv

How to peel potatos the fastest way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY6I71-bajo

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You can grow spuds in pots if you do not have space in the garden.

Radish

A humble potato makes you wonder how it could taste so much better home grown.

No Abby saw that one too dangerous, electricity and a hand drill so close to H2O not something I'd recommend doing. The Spanish Video I saw had them cooked as well as tissue paper thin skin removed so vitamins not removed. Prefer that way.

Has anyone tried candied sweet potatoes....yummy with roast lamb!

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