Potatoes!!!

With the costs of other staple foods such as wheat and rice skyrocketing, many people throughout the world are eating more potatoes, which have not seen the dramatic increases many foods have in the past year. The good news about potatoes is that they can grow almost anywhere, so they can be produced locally without concern for transportation costs. . Potatoes are one of the few foods crops that can be grown in the home garden. They can be grown in any sunny location, even on an apartment deck in a five gallon bucket filled with light soil or straw. This year we are planting lots of potatoes in our garden. The kids have helped me plant some already and will be helping me dig them up when they are ready to be eaten.
I can think of enough potato recipes that we could eat potatoes at every meal and not get tired of them because the dishes are so different- creamed with garlic butter, cold in potato salad, baked and topped with broccoli and cheese, with leeks in a soup, shredded and served with eggs for breakfast, cubed and fried and sprinkled with cheese, sliced and sprinkled with oil and dipped in ketchup, mashed with butter, roasted with carrots and rutabegas.....