Reveling in the Sweet Nostalgia of Potatoes

by Chef's Garden | Dec 13, 2022 | Food & Cooking

Mention a potato and people often begin reminiscing—about the mashed potatoes that Grandma used to make during the holidays or the hashed potatoes and eggs they made their children on chilly school mornings. “Potatoes,” Chef Jamie Simpson of the Culinary Vegetable...

Potato Salad

by Chef's Garden | May 12, 2020 | Food and Recipes

Given the nature of The Chef’s Garden, not all potatoes are created equal. Some grow long, some grow round, some are purple, and some are pink. Some are big, and some are small. All of them can go into this recipe.   Servings: 4 servings   INGREDIENTS   2...

Harvesting Potatoes: Our New Potatoes are Flavored with Excellence

by Chef's Garden | Jul 24, 2018 | Crop Harvesting

Before he can harvest his crop of new potatoes, grower Cruz Figueroa Lopez has to save a life. A few feet from where Cruz stands in a covered potato tunnel, a robin flaps frantically, entangled in a bit of twine. Cruz hustles over and finds the twine twisted around...

Insights into Potato Sizes – and the Beauty of Small Potatoes

by Chef's Garden | Nov 16, 2017 | Produce Education

“Be eating one potato, peeling a second, have a third in your fist, and your eye on a fourth.” (Irish proverb) Updated July 2019 When you envision large Idaho potatoes, incorporating four potatoes into one person’s meal is way too much eating. But, when you look at...

Potatoes, the Power Vegetable

by Chef's Garden | Aug 29, 2013 | Ingredient Spotlight

Farmer Lee Jones and Chef Sam Misiura say keep it simple with The Chef’s Garden’s fingerling potatoes. Farmer Lee Jones and Chef Sam Misiura say keep it simple with vast array of fingerling potatoes from The Chef’s Garden