Today for lunch i started boiling my beets in anticipation of my yummy salad. After 30 min i come to check on them and notice an odd thing. The water is still pretty clear, just tinged with purple/red. I knew it had been boiling so i couldn't figure out if they were just taking a long time or were botched. I poked one with a fork and instantly knew i didn't have beets boiling, but potatoes. But when i pulled out the fork it was covered in a purple mush....a purpley potato mush. i poked another...maybe it's just the one odd one...ALL OF THEM!!! what else do you do with overly boiled potatoes but turn them into mashed potatoes.
This actually brought back flashbacks to a time when my brother decided to make our family dinner. Chef Wholay (as he referred to himself) was making bbq ribs, mashed potatoes and salad. This was during the days when Heinz ketchup made the "fun" and probably highly toxic ketchups that were colored. Our favorite was the green one. To go on this theme Evan decided to dye the mashed potatoes blue and the salad thankfully was just salad, green and red (lettuce and tomatoes). Your brain doesn't know what to think when it takes a bite of green bbq ribs, or blue mashed potatoes. It says "this tastes great" but thinks, "oh god this is going to be nasty". These potatoes did the same thing. They taste exactly like potatoes, but have that crazy purple color. The color in the photo isn't as pronounced as it was orginially because i put in cream cheese (purple + white=light purple). But tell me what you think....would you have guessed it was a beet or would you have known it was a purple potatoe (ps: when did purple potatoes come around?! I only know of the red ones).
