Using a Bumper Crop of Potatoes

New potato recipes

Donna Brown
3 min readJul 11, 2024
Photo by Rodrigo dos Reis on Unsplash

If there’s one thing we have in abundance this year in our garden, it’s potatoes and nothing tastes better than potatoes freshly dug from the garden.

I don’t know if it’s the same throughout the world, but here in the Ozarks, we call freshly picked potatoes (especially the tiniest ones) are called new potatoes. These potatoes still have delicate skins eaten with flaky white centers.

One of our favorite ways to eat fresh new potatoes is to make green beans and new potatoes. The recipe is the first recipe in our previous article Enjoy Fresh Green Beans Every Week. Check it out if you haven’t already.

Another popular summer recipe using new potatoes that we love in our house is New Potato Salad. This recipe is made according to taste. Use a little or as much of any ingredient mentioned so there are no specific amounts of any one ingredient.

New Potato Salad

Ingredients

New potatoes with skins still intact and cut in bite-sized pieces

Diced Boiled eggs

Chopped onions

Chopped celery

Yellow mustard

Mayonnaise

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Donna Brown

Gardener, homesteader, chicken farmer, teacher, and Author of The Locket of the Saga, a fictional American Historical Family https://authorcygnetbrown.com