OK, just a quick note about potatoes. I know, potatoes? What’s interesting about them, anyhow? Well, in the US, I was accustomed to my Idaho Russets – kind of all-purpose potatoes, you know? Here there are MANY more choices…. and they’re all different taste and textures. Pretty cool. But I noticed something odd.
You know how when you keep potatoes just a bit past their prime, they’ll begin sprouting??
These are the sprouts I’m accustomed to seeing….. kind of pointy and long?
Hmmm… my potatoes here didn’t exactly look that way – they sprouted some alien-looking ball-shaped pods of some sort!
What the heck???
Freakishly round, I didn’t quite know what they were, afraid it was some weird Middle-Eastern mold spore or something…. but nah…. it was just a sprout!
My goodness…. weird looking, aren’t they?
Nope…. not some exotic mold spore, just a dang sprout. Funny-looking, though!
OK, crisis averted. I popped those puppies off, peeled, boiled, mashed and seasoned them and we ate them for supper… just another tiny view of my new Middle Eastern life, huh??
