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those don’t look like French fries!

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This time of year in eastern New Brunswick and elsewhere, the potato fields are flourishing and many are in bloom.

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I am so grateful for those potato fields. I love French fries, so much so that I limit my intake by making promises to myself and my son (something like: I promise to eat French fries only once per week for the next three months. I usually stick to these promises because I make them for a specific time.

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I love other potato products. I make great potato salad (potatoes, Miracle Whip, onions, bacon bits, mustard, green relish, pepper and basil). We also eat potato and leek soup regularly (a great hot-day supper). And, of course, potatoes are an ingredient in every stew I make through the winter.

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But although we love potatoes, do we ever appreciate their very pretty flowers? Like so many things, we fail to see their beauty unless we look.

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Copyright Jane Tims 2017

Written by jane tims

July 26, 2017 at 7:19 am

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  1. I love potatoes, too! (Especially oven-roasted baby potatoes.) If I’ve ever seen a potato field before I didn’t know what it was I was looking at. What pretty flowers!

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    Barbara Rodgers

    July 26, 2017 at 7:51 am

    • In New Brunswick potato fields are everywhere! McCains, famous for their fries, have their head office in Florenceville, New Brunswick.

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      jane tims

      July 26, 2017 at 10:43 am


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