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Old 11-30-21, 03:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Who can't use up a five-pound bag of potatoes before they go bad?
What, the potatoes? Or themselves?
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
There was a customer in Whole Foods yesterday who was off the scale, over 11 for sure.
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LesterOfPuppets I found a refurbishing project for you. Actually, though I ride by it frequently and never seen it move, it was humming when I walked up to it. I found a worker who said the starter motor was plugged in to keep it warm. I found out that it’s in use this time of year to move hopper cars around to be loaded with grain by a grain elevator. Despite looking like crap, the worker said it starts up and runs great and they’ll be operating it tomorrow.


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Get back to me after several years of cooking for your LSS and children.
Actually I don't eat a lot of white potatoes either. Maybe that's why I struggle to gain weight.
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Florida State is bowl-less? Sad.
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Originally Posted by genejockey
I used to work with an English woman who was very into motorcycles. She told me at one point, while still living over there, she owned some Kawasaki that was The Fastest production bike in the world at that time, and she was bombing down the freeway at 150 and realized, "If I keep this bike, I'm going to die." So she sold it. Over here, she and her husband got Harleys, which are much slower and thus less likely to kill you.
Probably one of those 3 cylinder 2 stroke Kawasakis. A friend had a Triumph Trident which was plenty fast. He showed me by pulling a wheelie down the alley one day. He came to the same realization as your English woman and sold that bike and bought a Moto Guzzi.
It's not that Harleys and Guzzis are slow, it's a different culture.
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Originally Posted by BillyD
Actually I don't eat a lot of white potatoes either. Maybe that's why I struggle to gain weight.
I mean, I like potatoes.... but the preparation of most good potatoes dishes involves loading them up with fats, and I just have no desire to do that very often. Last week, I made potatoes with Swedish meatballs one night and with Thanksgiving dinner another - I don't need to see potatoes on my plate for a couple more weeks.
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
10 being max
Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
over 11 for sure.

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Get back to me after several years of cooking for your LSS and children.
That should make it even easier.
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Florida State is bowl-less? Sad.
Not really.

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I mean, I like potatoes.... but the preparation of most good potatoes dishes involves loading them up with fats,
You can just bake them and put a little salad dressing on them. Easy and nutritious.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
You can just bake them and put a little salad dressing on them. Easy and nutritious.
Actually white potatoes are most nutritious only if you include the skin. I prefer sweet potatoes, much more nutritious.

Also, commercial salad dressings invariably contain unhealthy sugar.
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Money.
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Boring.
…and sex. We were getting so much we were too tired to work.
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We don't use 5 pounds of potatoes in two weeks.
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Originally Posted by BillyD
Actually white potatoes are most nutritious only if you include the skin. I prefer sweet potatoes, much more nutritious.

Also, commercial salad dressings invariably contain unhealthy sugar.
I make sweet potatoes often, cut into sticks, oiled and seasoned with chili powder, and convection roasted to crispitude. Best with ketchup spiked with habanero hot sauce.
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Originally Posted by BillyD
Actually white potatoes are most nutritious only if you include the skin. I prefer sweet potatoes, much more nutritious.

Also, commercial salad dressings invariably contain unhealthy sugar.
And you wonder why you can't gain weight.
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I just had a 1# baked potato w/ butter and sour cream. I have no problem gaining weight.
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Originally Posted by WhyFi
I mean, I like potatoes.... but the preparation of most good potatoes dishes involves loading them up with fats, and I just have no desire to do that very often. Last week, I made potatoes with Swedish meatballs one night and with Thanksgiving dinner another - I don't need to see potatoes on my plate for a couple more weeks.
Depends on your definition of "loading them up".
  • A couple pounds of boiling potatoes, washed and quartered, roasted at 400 degrees after tossing in EVOO with freshly chopped garlic and rosemary, salt and pepper. Most of the oil stays on the baking sheet, but the cut surfaces of the potato get brown and crispy and the insides get nice and soft.
  • the same potatoes, but peeled and quartered and boiled till just cooked through but not yet falling apart. Add 2 Tbsp of butter, salt, pepper, and freshly chopped parsley. That's 1 Tbsp butter per pound of potatoes.
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Originally Posted by genejockey
Depends on your definition of "loading them up".
  • A couple pounds of boiling potatoes, washed and quartered, roasted at 400 degrees after tossing in EVOO with freshly chopped garlic and rosemary, salt and pepper. Most of the oil stays on the baking sheet, but the cut surfaces of the potato get brown and crispy and the insides get nice and soft.
  • the same potatoes, but peeled and quartered and boiled till just cooked through but not yet falling apart. Add 2 Tbsp of butter, salt, pepper, and freshly chopped parsley. That's 1 Tbsp butter per pound of potatoes.
Like I said, "most." Roasting is probably the least fatty, but how frequently do you want to do that?

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Originally Posted by WhyFi
Like I said, "most." Roasting is probably the least fatty, but how frequently do you want to do that?

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How frequently do I want to DO that? Or how frequently do I want to EAT that?
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But, you know, you rode 187 miles last week and you're worried about a little fat?
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But, you know, you rode 187 miles last week and you're worried about a little fat?
It's not the calories so much as the heaviness.
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We simply spray a little olive oil on a sheet, cut the potatoes into cubes or fries, sprinkle with rosemary, some pepper, and very little salt, and then roast until soft. That or bake a potato. Neither are bad unless you load up the baked potato.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol

You can just bake them and put a little salad dressing on them. Easy and nutritious.
I eat mine plain. bake at 450f for an hour until the skin is crunchy.
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I eat mine plain. bake at 450f for an hour until the skin is crunchy.
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