Potato Sentence Examples

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  • Katie stared at the potato in her hand.

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  • Carmen picked up a potato and started pealing it.

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  • The tubers of Ipomaea Batatas are rich in starch and sugar, and, as the "sweet potato," form one of the most widely distributed foods in the warmer parts of the earth.

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  • The figures are those for 1905, but, though the absolute acreages Table -Areas of Cereal and Potato Crops in Great Britain and Ireland in 1905.

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  • Flax is almost of as much importance as wheat, and the potato is more cultivated than in any other part of Russia.

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  • The sweet potato and pea-nut crops have also become very valuable; on the other hand the Census of 1900 showed a decline in acreage and production of cotton.

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  • In the winter he had a fire by which at noon he warmed his coffee in a kettle; and as he sat on a log to eat his dinner the chickadees would sometimes come round and alight on his arm and peck at the potato in his fingers; and he said that he "liked to have the little fellers about him."

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  • She rinsed a potato and dropped it in the kettle.

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  • In Europe, potato starch is generally employed; in America, corn starch.

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  • Potato haulms, and club-rooted cabbage crops should, however, never be mixed with ordinary clean vegetable refuse, as they would be most likely to perpetuate the terrible diseases to which they are subject.

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  • Katie shrugged her shoulders and focused on cutting an eye from the potato in her hand.

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  • He casually spooned a bite of potato salad into his mouth and methodically chewed and swallowed it.

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  • Pythium, which causes the damping off of seedlings, reducing them to a putrid mass in a few hours, and Phytophthora, the agent of the potato disease.

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  • Rice is grown in such quantities as to procure for Formosa, in former days, the title of the " granary of China "; and the sweet potato, taro, millet, barley, wheat and maize are also cultivated.

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  • It may be prepared by the general methods, and occurs in fusel oil, especially in potato spirit.

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  • This in all probability arises from their salubrious climate, and the comparative sterility of their soil rendering them dependent upon the cultivation of the ground for the yam, the arum, and the sweet potato, their chief articles of food.

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  • She gouged an eye out of the potato she was holding.

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  • She threw the potato into a pan and eyed Carmen reflectively.

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  • Indian corn, quinoa, mandioca, possibly the potato, cotton and various fruits, including the strawberry, were already known to the aborigines, but with the conqueror came wheat, barley, oats, flax, many kinds of vegetables, apples, peaches, apricots, pears, grapes, figs, oranges and lemons, together with alfalfa and new grasses for the plains.

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  • Among tuberous vegetables the potato comes first.

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  • When the tuber of a potato begins to germinate the shoots which it puts out derive their food from the accumulated store of nutritive material which has been laid up in the cells of the tuber.

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  • They are effected chiefly by some alteration in the description of the root-crop, and perhaps by the introduction of the potato crop; by growing a different cereal, or it may be more than one cereal consecutively; by the growth of some other leguminous crop than clover, since " clover-sickness " may result if that crop is grown at too short intervals, or the intermixture of grass seeds with the clover, and perhaps by the extension by one or more years of the period allotted to this member of the rotation.

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  • It has various industries, including saw and planing mills, shipbuilding, glassworks and factories for wood-pulp, barrels and potato flour; and an active trade in exporting timber, ice, wood-pulp and granite, chiefly to Great Britain, and in importing from the same country coal and salt.

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  • Katie sighed and threw the last potato in the pan.

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  • It was about this time that the value of a mixture of lime and sulphate of copper (bouillie bordelaise), sprayed in solution upon the growing plants, came to be recognized as a check upon the ravages of potato disease.

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  • In 1846 came the Irish potato famine, and an enormous emigration began, followed by a very large German emigration from similar causes.

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  • She finished pealing the potato and threw it into the pan before continuing.

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  • He was holding court with Fred O'Connor in the parlor, a plate of potato chips and a tuna salad sandwich on his ample lap.

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  • He stirred his potato salad thoughtfully.

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  • Katie glanced up from the potato in her hand.

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  • The township of Saint Johnsbury was granted to Dr Jonathan Arnold (1741-1793)" and associates in 1786; in the same year a settlement was established and the place was named in honour of Jean Hector Saint John de Crevecoeur (1731-1813), who wrote Letters of an American Farmer (1782), a glowing description of America, which brought thither many immigrants, and who introduced potato planting into France.

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  • But why should not the New Englander try new adventures, and not lay so much stress on his grain, his potato and grass crop, and his orchards--raise other crops than these?

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  • The dredge often brings up large numbers of nodules formed upon sharks' teeth, the ear-bones of whales or turtles or small fragments of pumice or other volcanic ejecta, and all more or less incrusted with manganese oxide until the nodules vary in size from that of a potato to that of a man's head.

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  • The common potato (Solanum tuberosum), of which wild varieties are found, is not commonly used as a vegetable, but as a flavouring for soups and other dishes.

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  • The potato crop of the same year was grown on 19,422 acres and amounted to 2,420,668 bushels valued at $1,090,495; in 1909 the acreage was 21,000, and the crop was 2,730,000 bushels, valued at $1,747,000.

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  • In the Cronica de Peru of Pedro Ciega (Seville, 1553), as well as in other Spanish books of about the same date, the potato is mentioned under the name "battata" or "papa."

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  • Carl Sprengel, cited by Professor Edward Morren in his biographical sketch entitled Charles de l'Escluse, sa vie et ses oeuvres, states that the potato was introduced from Santa Fe into England by John Hawkins in 1563 (Garten Zeitung, 1805, p. 346).

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  • In 1585 or 1586, potato tubers were brought from what is now North Carolina to Ireland on the return of the colonists sent out by Sir Walter Raleigh, and were first cultivated on Sir Walter's estate near Cork.

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  • In cultivation the potato varies very greatly not only as to the season of its growth but also as to productiveness, the vigour and luxuriance of its foliage, the presence or relative absence of hairs, the form of the leaves, the size and colour of the flowers, &c. The tubers vary greatly in size, form and colour; gardeners divide them into rounded forms and long forms or "kidneys," and there are of course varieties intermediate in form.

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  • In this connexion it is very interesting to observe that Messrs Sutton of Reading find that the seedlings of many of the varieties of potato that occur spontaneously in different parts of America come quite true to type from seed.

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  • The potato thrives best in a rather light friable loam; and in thin sandy soils the produce, if not heavy, is generally of very good quality.

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  • It has also been noted that the sprouting of the eyes of the potato may be accelerated if, while still unripe, it is taken up and exposed for some weeks to the influence of a scorching sun.

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  • Potato Diseases There are few agricultural subjects of greater importance than the culture of the potato and the losses entailed by potato disease.

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  • As a rule, although there are a few exceptions, the disease occurs wherever the potato is grown.

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  • The letters A B show a vertical section through a fragment of a potato leaf, enlarged 1_00 diameters; A is the upper surface line, and B the lower; the lower surface of the leaf is shown at the top, A Fin.

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  • The lower surface of the potato leaf is furnished with numerous organs of transpiration or stomata, which are narrow orifices opening into the leaf and from which moisture is transpired in the form of vapour.

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  • The germinating spores are not only able to pierce the leaves and stems of the potato plant, and so gain an entry to its interior through the epidermis, but they are also able to pierce the skin of the tuber, especially in young examples.

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  • The earlier varieties of potato appear to escape the disease almost entirely, as they are usually ready to be lifted before it becomes troublesome; while certain of the later varieties are much less prone to it than the majority.

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  • Maule also tried the effect of grafting the potato on these two species and, though he succeeded, there is no record to show whether the product was any hardier than the parents.

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  • It is possible that the hybridizing of the potato with one or other of the wild types of tuberous Solanums may give rise to a variety which shall be immune, though unfortunately most are themselves liable to the attacks of the fungus, and one of the few crosses so made between the common potato and Solanum Maglia has exhibited the same undesirable trait.

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  • Wilting of the foliage followed by the discoloration of the stem and branches is characteristic of a disease of the potato known as "Blackleg."

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  • The pieces of dried-up potato with the spores of Nectria upon them are a source of infection in the succeeding year, and care should be taken that diseased tubers are not planted.

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  • Among the more important productions, the potato, oca (Oxalis tuberosa), quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa) and some coarse grasses characterize the puna region, while barley, an exotic, is widely grown for fodder.

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  • The potato crop, which forms the staple food of the people, is great; the Saaz district is celebrated for hops, and the flax is also of a good quality.

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  • Among the vegetables grown the potato is the most important; in 1907 there were 70,000 acres in potatoes, yielding 8,400,000 bushels, valued at $6,216,000.

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  • Between 1899 and 1907 the value of the potato crop more than doubled.

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  • They grew bananas, manioc, the sweet potato, the sugarcane, maize, sorghum, rice, millet, eleusine and other fruits and vegetables, as well as tobacco, but the constant state of fear in which they lived, either of their neighbours or of the Arabs, offered small inducement to industry.

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  • It is claimed in Colombia that a species of wild potato found on the paramos is the parent of the cultivated potato.

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  • The potato, which was the sole food of at least half the people of an overcrowded island, failed, and a famine of unprecedented proportions was obviously imminent.

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  • The potato crop is large, 26,724,000 bushels being raised in 1909 on 262,000 acres, a crop exceeded only in New York, Michigan and Maine.

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  • But the potato famine and the repeal of the Corn Laws, occurring almost simultaneously, caused an immediate and startling diminution in the number of smaller holdings.

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  • The fact that probably about 1,000,000 acres formerly under potatoes went out of cultivation owing to the potato disease in 1847 makes a comparison between the figures for crops in that year with present figures somewhat fallacious.

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  • Unable to rise, the wretched people multiplied on their potato plots with perfect recklessness.

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  • The steady application of modern principles, by extend But no political cause swelled the population as much as the potato.

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  • Even with the modern system of storing in pits the potato does not last through the summer, and the " meal months " - June, July and August - always brought great hardship. The danger increased as the growing population pressed ever harder upon the available land.

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  • In 1845 the population had swelled to 8,295,061, the greater part of whom depended on the potato only.

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  • There is a considerable potato cultivation, which can be indefinitely extended when cheaper means of export are provided.

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  • In 1g06 the islanders passed through a period of distress owing to great mortality among the cattle and the almost total failure of the potato crop. The majority again refused, however, to desert the island, though offered allotments of land in Cape Colony.

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  • Of plants that furnish food for man the most important are rice, maize and millet, coffee, the coco-nut tree, sago-palm, the obi or native potato, the bread-fruit and the tamarind; with lemons, oranges, mangosteens, wild-plums, Spanish pepper, beans, melons and sugar-cane.

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  • Carmen gave the potato in her hand special attention, carefully weighing her next words.

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  • A little more exploring revealed that the cabinets were stocked with sufficient supplies of dry goods and the potato and onion bins were full.

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  • She completed peeling another potato and rinsed it before Claudette finally gave up on a response with an audible sigh.

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  • The main fear inducers seem to be the R.C. bishops many of whom are actively abetting the " potato famine " lie.

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  • I took my samples using 90mm Petri plates containing potato dextrose agar, the traditional medium for growing mold.

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  • Caroline and Gaby shared some interesting culinary experiences, including aloe vera flavored yogurt and potato and pumpkin ice cream.

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  • The potatoes were genetically modified to include a toxin - GNA lectin - found in snowdrops to make them resistant to potato aphids.

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  • Dr. Jennie L Brierley, from the Scottish Crop Research Institute, whose interests include the epidemiology of potato blackleg.

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  • Life cycle Potato late blight survives the winter in infected potato tubers.

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  • Do not compost potato tops they may carry potato blight.

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  • Sieve potato, soya flours and salt and then stir in the soya bran and oil.

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  • To serve, arrange the potato rounds on a plate and top with the cooked chard.

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  • R Davis, Stoke on Trent I am writing to congratulate you on the best ever potato chips in the whole wide world ever.

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  • Here, mom is using the hand potato chipper that I knew so well!

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  • Large potato cod often hang out to the north and free swimming morays are common.

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  • To prevent condensation on windows, cut a potato in half, rub on window, buff up with dry cloth.

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  • My guest had the crispy duck leg confit with sweet potato and thyme terrine with vanilla jus, (£ 16.00 ).

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  • I see an opening for local, organic potato crisps, organic breakfast cereals.

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  • Choices include chicken, pork, sausage casserole and potato croquettes.

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  • There is thus an urgent need for durable resistant potato cultivars.

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  • Aphids were also a problem in early salad crops especially black bean, peach potato and lettuce currant aphid.

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  • Potato Sorting Back at the ranch, Val had more potatoes drying off on old shower curtains laid on the lawn.

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  • The increase in quantity of pesticides used in 1996 was attributed to increased use of sulphuric acid as a potato haulm desiccant.

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  • Just great lager and a simple range of snack meals (consisting mainly of cheese dishes, pickled sausages and potato dumplings ).

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  • In the UK, broad-leaved dock is a host for the potato eelworm, Ditylenchus destructor.

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  • But the grilled calves ' liver was very tender, artfully arranged with braised endive and a well smashed potato mash.

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  • This was vital for survival with the potato famine which affected the UK in the 1860s.

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  • There are concerns that young children are eating too much fatty junk food, and adopting " couch potato " lifestyles.

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  • Thus maintenance of top soil k fertility remains the key principle for potato manuring.

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  • Is a fidgety person less likely to become a couch potato than a less fidgety person less likely to become a couch potato than a less fidgety person?

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  • The evening food, savory fillings in pitta bread or baked potato with salad, is now available all day at weekends.

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  • Travis are noted fans of its potato fritters and Manic Street Preacher James Dean Bradfield is also a staunch supporter.

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  • The resistant genotypes produced will be used by potato breeders.

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  • Vigorous potato plants could be grown in our containment glasshouses.

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  • Cloning and characterization of a theta class glutathione transferase from the potato pathogen Phytophthora infestans.

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  • Or maybe swordfish loin wrapped in vine leaves with potato gnocchi, grapes and lemon butter?

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  • To Serve Cut a slice of hot sweet potato gratin on the plate.

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  • I eschewed any sense of, well, sense and went for some potato skins to start, and simple breaded haddock to follow.

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  • Scotland East 29 years - employe He was trapped in the rollers of a potato harvester whilst he trying to clear a blockage.

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  • I still make potato pie and potato hash like my Mom used to make!

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  • Infected potato haulms (foliage) may be composted in a good active heap.

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  • It basically turned a potato into a mushy mess that was completely inedible.

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  • We have also used the sensitive potato invertase mini-exon system to systematically mutate the sequence surrounding the branchpoint and the polypyrimidine tract.

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  • It was bulked out with crisp rosti potato with smoked bacon lardons.

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  • Then we moved on to a rack of lamb with puy lentils wrapped in cabbage and mashed potato with leek.

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  • Bring up to the boil, then reduce heat and leave to simmer until red lentils and sweet potato are very tender.

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  • I'd say you're sick of the lager lout, couch potato image that you've all been landed with.

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  • Every year, I bought a trailer load of rotted cow manure which I used mainly for the potato patch.

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  • Mash with a potato mash with a potato masher or hand mixer to combine.

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  • The tomatoes will break down and you can use a potato masher to assist this.

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  • Mash with a potato masher or hand mixer to combine.

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  • Brakes Healthier Choices Potato Salad contains diced, cooked potatoes and onions bound in a low fat mayonnaise with parsley.

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  • The traditional 16 ounce Cornish Pasty filled with locally produced Chuck Steak, potato, swede and onion was the diner's midday meal.

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  • An alternative is to cover the entire potato growing area with a thick mulch of old hay, or straw mixed with grass cuttings.

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  • Potato cyst nematode cysts are only 0.5 mm in diameter on average.

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  • Even traditional nursery rhymes were adapted to give a ' Potato Pete ' theme!

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  • Filet of Beef with a truffle potato timbale braised oxtail, confit of garlic, Cabernet Sauvignon sauce.

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  • Another popular dish is Irish soda bread and potato pancakes.

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  • Grate the cheese and then spread it out over the potato mixture along with the dried parsley.

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  • Dinner comes as feta bake, tuna pasta and potato salad and it is wonderful.

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  • The rest settled for cheese pasty, baked potato or had brought their own packed lunches.

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  • In Ghana, a tasty fried patty made from sweet potato and eggs is a top birthday snack.

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  • Then, a sweet potato or sugar-snap peas fit the bill.

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  • Dishes while we were there included a delicately spiced celeriac and chick pea soup and zesty grilled brill with roast fennel and potato.

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  • Do you reckon he can get us a couple of good potato peelers?

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  • All the controls were active comparisons, tho these included potato peelings and amniotic membrane as well as conventional treatments.

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  • We had my mother's great big iron pot to put potato peelings in.

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  • I highly recommend you find a snack wagon and try their " Rosti ", a fried potato and onion fritter.

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  • Sky already had the football product that the majority of couch potato fans wanted to watch.

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  • Bring a jacket potato wrapped in foil to cook in a bonfire.

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  • Madam continued with Roasted breast of duck with fondant potato and confit of red onion.

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  • Meanwhile boil enough potatoes to cover the top of the stew in mashed potato made with butter.

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  • A proper Potato fork has broad flat prongs to avoid damaging the tubers.

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  • Here she has many 19th century gadgets from the ice cream maker and lemon squeezer to a potato ricer and a floor washing donkey.

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  • In my opinion, shop bought potato salad is just not worthwhile.

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  • The nucleotide sequence of the infectious cloned DNA components of potato yellow mosaic virus.

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  • E. c. subsp. carotovora (Ecc ), however, causes soft rot of a wide range of plants, including potato.

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  • It is a bacterial soft rot which can cause a rapid reduction in the quality and market value of the potato crop.

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  • Moreover, they are basically potato encased in dough, good old-fashioned stodge - like chips, only healthier.

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  • There are some interesting experiments which can be done with growth regulators to investigate their effect on the growth of potato stolons.

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  • We tried some sweet potato on Babycake today but he didn't seem to like it very much.

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  • Another huge lunch appears, with fresh fruit juice, fried sweet potato, chicken and lots of different fruit and vegetables.

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  • The village mainly consists of simple shepherd houses, a few teahouses and walled yak and potato fields.

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  • For us time sharing meant togetherness, a chip was a piece of wood or fried potato.

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  • For example, Monsanto's approach to Colorado Beetle is to develop potato plants that produce bacterial toxins which kill the beetles.

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  • The one who thinks the way to present a baked potato is to ` smash ` it with his fat little trotter.

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  • Brakes Healthier Choices Potato Salad costs £ 4.95 for a 2kg resealable plastic tub.

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  • Perhaps mix normal and sweet potato, or add in some mashed turnip or swede as well.

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  • Caroline and Gaby shared some interesting culinary experiences, including aloe Vera flavored yogurt and potato and pumpkin ice cream.

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  • Lay the slices of tail meat over the potato salad, garnish with one of the claws and drizzle the vinaigrette over the lobster.

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  • Place the potato salad on a plate or bowl, retaining some of the lime vinaigrette.

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  • Dozens of production lines turn out Birds Eye brand foods ranging from frozen peas to potato waffles to beef burgers.

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  • For a tasty treat, serve with spicy potato wedges or fried chips.

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  • The main activities include potato and buckwheat cultivation, and raising yaks for wool, meat, manure and transport.

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  • Severe as were the losses in flocks and herds from these imported diseases, they were eclipsed by the ravages of the mysterious potato blight, which, first appearing in 1845, pervaded the whole of Europe, and in Ireland especially proved the precursor of famine and pestilence.

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  • In the autumn of 1845 the failure of the potato crop in Ireland threatened a famine, and convinced Sir Robert Peel that all restrictions on the importation of food must be at once suspended.

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  • The mycelium from the germinating sporangia or zoospores soon finds its way into the tissues of the potato leaf by the organs of transpiration, and the process of growth already described is repeated -over and over again till the entire potato leaf, or indeed the whole plant, is reduced to putridity.

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  • We are quite solid inside our bodies, and have no need to eat, any more than does a potato.

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  • Pierre asked as he munched the last of the potato.

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  • Dark Red Norland potatoes the most popular redskin potato in the US were evaluated.

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  • I think you cant beat a good roast potato !

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  • The sea bass and scallops served with roasted sweet potato and salsa verde is also a winner.

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  • Make sausage sandwiches or add to hot potato salads !

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  • I chose the larger version of what was also on the starter list smoked salmon on a bed of potato with rocket.

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  • E. c. subsp. carotovora (Ecc), however, causes soft rot of a wide range of plants, including potato.

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  • Dill is traditionally added to any dish with a white sauce, from potato salad to sour cream fresh vegetable dip.

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  • Sudden splurges of activity after long periods as a couch potato are better than nothing but far from ideal.

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  • Smoked salmon with potato & dill waffle & game in season are other surefire hits.

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  • They may raid new potato crops, dig up carrots and damage sweet corn.

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  • Roasted sweet potato and butternut squash are also in demand, either as stand alone ingredients or in vegetable mixes.

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  • We tried some sweet potato on Babycake today but he did n't seem to like it very much.

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  • Cajun - mixed with our unique blend of traditional Cajun herbs & spices, mashed potato to provide a tangy flavor.

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  • Viral induced gene silencing has been demonstrated for the characterization of gene function in diploid and tetraploid potato.

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  • For example, Monsanto 's approach to Colorado Beetle is to develop potato plants that produce bacterial toxins which kill the beetles.

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  • This is one of the most important viruses in UK potato production transmitted by aphids.

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  • Partially characterized the sesquiterpene cyclase of potato tubers treated with arachidonic acid.

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  • Effects of plastic film covers on dry-matter production and early tuber yield in potato crops.

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  • Mrs Maureen Darling of the Scottish Agricultural Science Agency, whose interests include viral pathogens of potato and potato wart disease.

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  • In the Mendoza bag there are the seeds or berries of what appears to be a small potato plant with a whitish flower.

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  • Serve them with chips, baked beans, potato salad, and any other fixings that you choose.

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  • For example, your steak, carrot, and mashed potato dinner can simply be inserted into a food processor, with a bit of water added for softness, and voila!

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  • The temptation to "load up" on potato chips and toilet paper can be extreme because of the price, but use caution by reading on.

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  • You see, most companies that stock potato chips, soda pop, or cookies use district representatives to come into the store, check stocks, order, and merchandise product.

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  • The turkey and potato recipes features turkey, potatoes, rice, oatmeal, veggies, fruits and Omega 3 and 6 acids.

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  • Biodegradable garbage bags and other plastic bags produced today are also made up of vegetable starches, such as corn or potato that don't give off harmful chemicals as they break down.

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  • Imagine that you've just eaten a typical dinner of roast beef, a baked potato with margarine, and green beans.

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  • These strips were pulled through another recycled item, old potato burlap sacking.

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  • The material was cut into strips and then hooked through a potato sack and tied.

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  • Help design a new Higglytown Hero by dragging and dropping objects onto a Higgly - it's like a digital potato head!

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  • To see oxidation in action, cut an apple or a potato and watch as it turns brown.

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  • Have a side helping of potato salad mixed with homemade mayonnaise.

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  • Your potato bread looks more like a brick than the big airy loaf you expected.

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  • When something tasty, warm, and delicious is desired, a creamy potato soup recipe comes to mind.

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  • Potato soup is also rich in vitamins and protein.

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  • One medium potato provides a good amount of magnesium, potassium, fiber, vitamin C, iron, and niacin.

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  • In a creamy potato soup recipe, it is the blending of potatoes with milk.

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  • While other kinds of potato soup may have a milk base, the creamy part of the recipe is usually because of ricing the potatoes or beating them until their consistency is more like mashed potatoes than cubed.

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  • However, if you are going to cook the potatoes to a consistency that is similar to mashed, creamy potato soup can really handle any kind of potato.

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  • Also, potato soup can be garnished with a dollop of sour cream, shredded cheese, parsley, or croutons--the choice is yours.

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  • Add the potato pieces, bacon, bay leaves, celery seed, and whipping cream.

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  • This tasty fish will go great with your standard outdoor fare, like potato salad.

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  • Potato Salad - Would it be Fourth of July without potato salad?

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  • Then the chef takes a few sheets of the pre-made puff pastry and cuts them into 3-inch squares and places a few tablespoons of the sweet potato mixture in one corner of the pastry, folding the pastry over to form a filled triangle.

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  • I also came up with a Steak and Mashed Potato Dinner, Sunburger and much more.

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  • Finish a good southern meal with pound cake, peach cobbler, sweet potato pie, or caramel cake.

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  • For dessert, I would suggest a sweet potato pie or even a cheesecake.

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  • Sweet potato pie is another variation on the traditional candied yams.

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  • The Toy Story cartridge has all the usual suspects from Woody and Buzz to Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head.

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  • It is made from potato starch, tapioca flour, leavening agents (calcium lactate, calcium carbonate, and citric acid) and a gum derived from cottonseed.

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  • Dishes such as chili, macaroni and cheese and potato salad require some preparation on your part.

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  • There are a many ways to incorporate beans into your diet and your favorite recipes, whether you use them as a topping for a baked potato or a main ingredient in a salad.

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  • Make vegan sushi by wrapping avocados, carrots, cooked sweet potato, and other plant-based fillings with sushi rice in a nori sheet.

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  • They may be happy to provide potato salad, homemade dinner rolls, or barbequed pulled pork in lieu of a gift.

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  • The fattening starches such as corn, wheat, potato or tapioca used to hold dry kibble together could also be contributing to the epidemic of obesity and other health issues in our dogs and cats.

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  • This implies that for some people, one Greyhound is never enough, just as one potato chip will never satisfy.

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  • Dog food varieties include a Sweet Potato & Venison Formula, Lamb Meal & Brown Rice Formula, Sweet Potato & Fish Formula, and Potato & Duck Formula in dry and canned food.

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  • The Potato & Duck formula is available in small kibbles for small dogs.

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  • Sweet potato treats for dogs are a growing trend in the pet food industry.

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  • Here's a sample of sweet potato treats for dogs that are widely available in pet supply stores and online.

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  • Beefeaters Sweet Potato Chips - The manufacturer claims these chips are a healthier alternative to traditional rawhide chews, and that they are also low in sodium, fat and calories.

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  • Sweet Potato & Chicken Wrap Dog Treats - Not all sweet potato treats are completely vegetarian.

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  • These treats list chicken and sweet potato as the main ingredients.

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  • If you're worried about the ingredients in commercially produced sweet potato treats, try making your own treats at home.

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  • False Heath (Fabiana) - F. imbricata is a pretty shrub of the Potato family, but so much resembling a Heath that it might well be mistaken for one.

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  • These beetles plague members of the potato family, including eggplant, tomato, peppers, and potatoes.

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  • Adult Colorado potato beetles are oval and about half the size of your thumbnail.

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  • Hand picking is the gardener's best defense against Colorado potato beetles.

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  • Nearly all plant material can be added to a compost pile, including leaves, grass clippings, carrot and potato peels, and more.

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  • Potatoes - plant the herb catnip to ward off various potato beetles.

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  • Using a potato masher, mash the strawberries in a bowl after the stems and leaves are removed.

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  • Eating a diet of organic desserts and organic potato chips isn't going to do much good for you or your baby.

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  • If you add conventionally grown potato peels, for example, you will also be adding the chemicals that they contain.

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  • Just remember the snacks can be purchased as bottled soda, potato chip bags and fruit in the dining areas of most of the hotels.

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  • The inclusion of Mr. Potato Head as the game's guide is an added bonus.

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  • In the "Hidden Village in the Leaves-Gate" stage, you can see Hinata Hyuuga hiding behind a tree, and nearby, Chouji Akimichi can be seen eating potato chips and doing replacement techniques.

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  • Play popular Hasbro games like Battleship, Boggle, Connect Four, Sorry, Sorry Sliders, and Yahtzee, all hosted by Mr. Potato Head.

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  • You can spend time and effort concocting chicken, ham, potato salad, hors d'oeuvres, pie and what-nots.

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  • For example, the fleshy stem (tuber) of the potato plant is nutritious; however, its roots, sprouts, and vines are poisonous.

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  • By feeding a toddler a piece of boneless chicken, some green peas, a few cooked carrots, and a bit of potato instead of a can of chicken stew, parents can identify exactly what foods the child is eating and in what quantities.

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  • Sharp-edged foods such as peanuts, tacos, and potato chips should be avoided.

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  • There are other starch based thickeners available to cooks like cornstarch, arrowroot, or potato starch and even rice flour, but generally all kitchens will have flour and butter and these are the best ingredients to use to make a roux.

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  • One day before your dinner, you could take a sweet potato puff recipe and pipe it into a tray of mini muffin tins.

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  • Baked potatoes are all well and good, but for real flavor baked sweet potato recipes make a great change of pace.

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  • The flesh of the sweet potato can be found in a variety of colors including white, yellow, orange, and purple.

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  • No matter what color your sweet potato happens to be, you can use it in any of the sweet potato recipes that you have.

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  • At this point, your options for baked sweet potato recipes can range from serving them just with butter, topping them with butter and brown sugar, or making twice baked sweet potatoes.

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  • Mix the removed potato meat with the cream cheese mixture.

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  • The largest group of immigrants documented at NARA are the over 600,000 who arrived at New York during the Irish Potato Famine.

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  • In some cases, like the Irish Potato Famine, immigration records can help you understand why your ancestors left their home countries.

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  • A pregnant Britney Spears was seen eating Wendy's chili, a baked potato, and a chicken sandwich.

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  • Just like those darned Lay's potato chips, once you start buying Beach Bunny Swimwear, you just can't stop.

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  • The Mr. Potato head toys have been popular for several generations of children.

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  • A large plastic head that resembles a potato has holes where your child can insert a variety of facial features.

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  • A child that has trouble sitting still will probably not be interested in a Mr. Potato Head for very long.

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  • After Mr. Potato Head saves them they become part of the family.

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  • Over that time some of the original toys have been sold in yard sales, but Woody, Buzz Lightyear, Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head, Jessie and Bullseye, Rex, Slinky, the Army Men, Hamm and the aliens are still together.

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  • For people who eat "Frankenfat" products, like the infamous Olestra potato chips, it means vital vitamins attach to fat -- that is then rushed through the system and into the toilet, creating a deficiency situation.

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  • Other ingredients include potato starch, gelatin, and silicon dioxide.

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  • That means forgoing the couch potato position you are so comfortable with!

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  • Gluten Free Mama offers a number of gluten free baking mixes, including a pie crust mix that employs rice flour, tapioca flour, coconut flour, and potato starch.

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  • Many classic candied sweet potato recipes call for marshmallows, brown sugar, butter or margarine, and spices.

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  • For a low fat potato option, try making your own potato salad.

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  • Flour substitutes such as potato starch flour, cornmeal, and sorghum flour keep well when kept in an airtight jar in a cool, dark place.

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  • You can also try a delicious topping for your favorite sweet potato recipe by cutting butter into a mixture of brown sugar and rice flour.

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  • This Jules brand flour consists of a blend between tapioca starch, potato starch, corn starch, corn flour, white rice flour, and xanthan gum.

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  • If you use a heavier flour like brown rice flour, you may also want to add a lighter weight flour such as tapioca flour or potato starch.

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  • The CD Kitchen recipe uses a combination of rice flours and potato starch for a lighter biscuit with a milder flavor.

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  • If your child is a couch potato or video game addict, set rules.

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  • This hilarious picnic game involves hopping in a burlap potato sack.

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  • You can purchase potato sacksat the S&S Worldwide website.

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  • They pass a potato to each other while music plays.

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  • When the music stops, the person holding the potato yells, "Hot potato!," and is out.

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  • He even builds a mashed potato statue of where he had the encounter.

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  • You can find coupons for everything from shampoo and toothpaste to potato chips and barbecue sauce.

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  • From potato soup to meat loaf, there is something here sure to please even the pickiest eater.

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  • The ballerina flat, in either Blueberry Glam Fruit or Sweet Potato, comes in a tweed fabric with a white faux leather patched fruit design and matching embroidery.

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  • For younger children, let them draw or trace a simple shape onto the potato and cut it out for them.

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  • Cut the potato in half and let each child draw a simple design with the pencil on the flesh of the potato.

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  • Cut away the potato that is outside the lines for a cleaner stamp.

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  • Holding onto the outside of the potato, place the stamp in the paint, then stamp on paper, fabric, or whatever you like.

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  • Served as a snack or as a side dish, sweet potato fries are easy to make and taste delicious.

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  • Slice the sweet potato into approximately eight long strips by cutting it lengthwise.

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  • Place the potato slices in a single layer on a baking sheet.

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  • Bake approximately ten more minutes until the sweet potato fries are tender.

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  • If you are currently a couch potato you can't just get up and run a marathon.

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  • You may eat one baked potato with butter for dinner.

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  • Brush the potato skins with olive oil and bake for about 10 minutes or until somewhat crisp.

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  • French fries, potato salad and chili all are heavy in fat and calories.

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  • This group includes most of the pre-packaged snack foods like potato chips and crackers, as well as sugar treats like candy and cookies.

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  • Another tip is instead of eating french fries, consider a baked potato, lowfat yogurt, or a salad with lowfat dressing.

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  • If that doesn't convince you, listen to some of these recipes; southwestern potato skins, blackberry iced tea with cinnamon and ginger, cookies and cream milkshake, barbecue chicken pizza, and many more.

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  • Your reward at the end of the day can be a baked potato with butter.

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  • Skip the sour cream and butter on a baked potato, try salsa for a delicious low calorie change.

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  • For example, instead of eating a twenty piece chicken nuggets and large fries, you could have something else with actual nutritional content, such as a grilled chicken breast and baked potato.

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  • Log every bite of food that goes into your mouth, even if it is just a finger full of frosting, a sip of non-diet coke or a handful of potato chips.

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  • Alongside these favorite munchies, sneak in some julienned rutabaga or bell peppers, 'roses' made of red cabbage, or diced raw sweet potato.

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  • Have a bit of Mom's homemade potato salad as long as you keep your portions in check.

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  • This main dish meat can be paired with an energy-boosting baked potato and hearty black beans and salsa.

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  • For something different, use the black beans and salsa for a potato topper.

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  • Replace French fries or baked potato with a side of fruit, like crunchy apples.

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  • Though apples do contain some carbohydrates, they are much healthier than greasy fried foods or a baked potato loaded with fattening toppings.

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  • Foods like donuts, candy, ice cream, potato chips, and sodas are full of calories, but contain very little nutritional value.

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  • For example, you would not eat broiled chicken with a baked potato.

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  • Snack Foods - Snack cakes, potato chips, and sodas all contain fat and contribute to weight gain and, thus, a variety of diet-related illnesses.

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  • A serving can also include a small potato or a whole cup of leafy greens.

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  • These potato pancakes work well alone or served with a side of turkey bacon or sausage.

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  • These athletic suits come in a wide variety of colors, materials and styles, so everyone from the marathon runner to the couch potato who only watches marathons on television can find a suit for them.

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  • You are going to use a normal, ordinary potato as your "steel wool" or scouring pad.

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  • You will want to cut an end off of the potato to expose the meat.

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  • Use the cut potato and rub the cleanser around the pan.

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  • You will notice that the potato will begin to get slick and when this happens remove that end and continue using it as before.

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  • Rinse the skillet out and add more cleanser and begin scrubbing with the potato again.

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  • Southern sweet potato soufflé is a delicacy not limited to south of the Mason-Dixon line.

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  • Before learning how to make your own sweet potato soufflé, here's a little background.

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  • Unlike traditional soufflés made with plenty of eggs, sweet potato soufflé in the South isn't made with eggs, but with a fluffy combination of mashed sweet potatoes, butter and other ingredients.

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  • Southern sweet potato soufflé is based on a vegetable beloved in the south - the sweet potato or yam.

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  • In fact every time the term yam is used in advertising or on labels such as those on canned foods, the words 'sweet potato' must be located nearby to avoid confusion.

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  • Sweet potatoes offer twice the daily allowance of vitamin A, averaging about 8,000 milligrams per potato.

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  • And while a sweet potato soufflé won't exactly qualify as health food, sweet potatoes on their own offer great health benefits.

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  • Southern sweet potato casserole or soufflé recipes are a long-standing tradition.

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  • Gradually, the traditional recipe for southern sweet potato casseroles, soufflés or mashes emerged, with a dish based entirely on the quality and quantity of the sweet potatoes.

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  • Sweet potato soufflé is fairly easy to make.

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  • The simplest southern sweet potato soufflé can be made in about an hour.

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  • Dozens of sweet potato recipes help you enjoy this nutritious vegetable in a variety of ways, from soufflés to baked recipes.

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  • All Recipes provides another sweet potato soufflé recipe that's a bit lighter on the butter.

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  • Dishes such as potato salad, macaroni salad and cole slaw are standard favorites.

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  • Poodle Hat features "Couch Potato", Weird Al's take on Eminem's hit "Lose Yourself" and "Angry White Boy Polka", a medley of hard rock songs reimagined as polka tunes.

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  • For example, Pringles used a play on words of Devo's Whip It to promote their potato chips.

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  • There was also a dance the accompanied the song, which was a takeoff on the popular Mashed Potato dance of the time.

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  • The Monster Mash borrowed the foot steps from the Mashed Potato but added lurching, "monster arms" to the mix.

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  • For example, blueberry jam is perfect for a party in honor of someone from Maine, while potato chips are great for an Idaho resident's party.

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  • A similar game idea is to play "Hot Potato" with a movie-related object.

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  • Everyone has heard of the classic Hot Potato game.

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  • A party isn't complete without some yummy side dishes like potato salad, slaw, baked beans, and a congealed salad or two.

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  • Hot Potato - Play some summer time tunes, and use a beach ball.

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  • This game is played just like "Hot Potato."

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  • You typically can't go wrong with serving some sort of potato, even if you stick to a baked white or sweet potato.

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  • You may be happy to learn that acne isn't caused by eating chocolate or potato chips, and it is not a result of failing to wash your face.

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  • Other classic remedies include tea bags, cucumber, rose water and potato juice.

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  • Potato can be very effective, but you must combine it with a moisturizer, as it can also be drying.

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  • Wendy's provides both a baked potato and salad bar.

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  • You can also substitute sweet potato fries with any burger or sandwich order.

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  • The restaurant operates its own bakery, so treats like rosemary potato bread or pecan pie are sure to be freshly made on the premises.

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  • Each steak dinner is paired with a dinner salad, choice of potato and vegetable of the day.

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  • Vegetarians will go for fried potato curry, spiced garbanzo beans, spinach with homemade cheese and eggplant with peas and potatoes.

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  • From the sweet potato casserole to the fried catfish and cornbread, the taste buds go crazy when eating the delicious meals prepared at this restaurant.

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  • Although constantly changing, the menu has offered past delicacies such as sautéed beef tenderloin with potato galette and wild mushrooms or venison circled with wild huckleberries and accompanied by white braised pears.

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  • They also make a potato, and rosemary pizza, served without tomatoes.

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  • All entrees are served with a daily vegetable and choice of either risotto or potato.

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  • Specialties include sauerbraten, wienerschnitzel, bratwurst, knockwurst and the potato pancake dinner.

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  • Lunch offerings include interesting salads such as pan-fried meatballs with mesclun greens and fried chicken-cutlet salad, as well as finger-tip slice steak sandwich and potato, and homemade macaroni and cheese.

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  • For the main course, consider the beef short ribs with a fingerling potato salad or the chef's seasonal house made pasta.

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  • For dessert, treat yourself to the sweet potato cheesecake.

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  • The homemade gorgonzola potato chips and hand-cut onion rings alone are worth a trip to this cliff-top spot.

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  • A vegetarian plate consists of potato pancakes, vegetables and kraut.

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  • Complementary sides are served with the meal, such as fresh vegetables and potato.

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  • Appetizers include deviled eggs, smoked chicken wings, potato skins and baby greens salad.

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  • Guests can also choose from sides such as macaroni and cheese, green chile polenta, potato salad and mashed potatoes.

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  • In addition to brats the menu offers burgers, sandwiches, hot dogs, potato salad, sauerkraut and soda or beer to wash it all down.

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  • Fried fish, potato salad, seasoned rice, candied yams, and greens---this is the kind of fare that will fill you up and leave you yearning for more.

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  • Goulash, kuchen varieties, potato pancakes, brats and knockwurst round out the German-themed menu.

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  • Sample the eatery's famous sauerbraten, which is made from a not-so-secret recipe of fresh cubed beef, gingersnaps, gravy and fluffy potato dumplings.

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  • The sandwich platter also included cookies, potato chips and disposable dinnerware.

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  • All main dishes come with warm bread, salad, vegetable and potato or rice.

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  • Burgers are made from beef, turkey or vegetables and can be ordered in combination with a cold soda and your choice of regular, sweet potato, cajun or garlic fries.

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  • Katie smiled knowingly and picked up another potato.

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  • Katie snorted and grabbed a potato.

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  • Katie sighed as she began pealing the potato.

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  • Cynthia picked up another potato and eviscerated an eye.

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  • It wasn't as if he was around much when he was in town, so an empty place at the table just meant an extra potato.

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  • Fred said he was too mind-stuffed with all these goings-on to eat a bite of supper, but when Cynthia supplied cold chicken and potato salad, he ate two helpings, just out of politeness.

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  • Using instant potatoes she managed to make a passable potato salad and opened a can of baked beans.

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  • Rye is the staple crop, though buckwheat, flax, green crops and the potato are cultivated in considerable quantities.

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  • It is noteworthy, however, that Ireland year by year places less reliance upon the potato crop. In 1888 the area of potatoes in Ireland was 804,566 acres, but it continuously contracted each year, until in 1905 it was only 616,755 acres, or 187,811 acres less than 17 years previously.

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  • A similar comparison for the several sections of Great Britain, as set forth in Table VI., shows that to England belong about 95% of the wheat area, over 80% of the barley area, over 60% of the oats area, and over 70% of the potato area, and these proportions do not vary much from year to year.

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  • The white potato, known as " batata inglez " (English potato), is grown in elevated localities, but it deteriorates so greatly after the first planting that fresh imported seed is necessary every second or third year.

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  • Farther inland, where the rains are more plentiful, is the native home of the potato.

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  • The chief source was the bounty-fed potato, and the industry was an agricultural one worked on cooperative principles.

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  • The people came to subsist almost entirely on potatoes and herrings; and in 1846, when the potato blight began its ravages, nearly universal destitution ensued - embracing, over the islands generally, 70% of the inhabitants.

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  • The various sclerotia, if kept moist, give rise to the fructifications of the fungi concerned, much as a potato tuber does to a potato plant, and in the same way the reserve materials are consumed.

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  • Peronosporaceae are a group of endophytic parasites - about ioo species - of great importance as comprising the agents of "damping off" disease (Pythium), vine-mildew (Plasmopara), potato disease (Phytophthora), onion-mildew (Peronospora).

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  • The potato is largely cultivated, not merely for food, but for distillation into spirits.

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  • The bad harvest and the potato disease drove him to the repeal of the Corn Laws, and at a meeting in Manchester on 2nd July 1846 Cobden moved and Bright seconded a motion dissolving the league.

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  • The potato crop in 1907 was 13,398,000 bushels, valued at $9,647,000, and the sugar beet, first introduced during the last decade of the 19th century, gave promise of becoming one of the most important crops.

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  • He was mayor of Youghal in 1588-89, and is said to have first cultivated the potato here.

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  • In 1852 he produced "Girls Sewing," "Man Spreading Manure"; 1853, "The Reapers"; 1854, "Church at Greville"; 1855 - the year of the International Exhibition, at which he received a medal of second class - "Peasant Grafting a Tree"; 1857, "The Gleaners"; 1859, "The Angelus," "The Woodcutter and Death"; 1860, "Sheep Shearing"; 1861, "Woman Shearing Sheep," "Woman Feeding Child"; 1862, "Potato Planters," "Winter and the Crows"; 1863, "Man with Hoe," "Woman Carding"; 1864, "Shepherds and Flock, Peasants Bringing Home a Calf Born in the Fields"; 1869, "Knitting Lesson"; 1870, "Buttermaking"; 1871, "November - recollection of Gruchy."

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  • Even a plant like the potato, so largely cultivated and so perfectly hardy, has not established itself in a wild state in any part of Europe.

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  • It is generally conceded that the potato originated in southern Chile, as it is found growing wild in Chiloe and neighbouring islands and on the adjacent mainland.

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  • The potato although successfully cultivated in Persia since about 1780, has not yet found favor, and the same may be said of the tomato, asparagus celery and others.

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  • Tubers are also sometimes formed on aerial branches, as in some Aroids, Begonias, &c. The production of small green tubers on the haulm, in the axils of the leaves of the potato, is not very unfrequent, and affords an interesting proof of the true morphological nature of the underground shoots and tubers.

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  • The potato tuber consists mainly of a mass of cells filled with starch and encircled by a thin corky rind.

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  • The chief value of the potato as an article of diet consists in the starch it contains, and to a less extent in the potash and other salts.

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  • Letheby gives the following as the average composition of the potato - a result which approximates closely to the average of nineteen analyses cited in How Crops Grow from Grouven.

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  • Where, as in some parts of northern Germany, the potato is grown for the purpose of manufacturing spirit great attention is necessarily paid to the quantitative analysis of the starchy and saccharine matters, which are found to vary much in particular varieties, irrespective of the conditions under which they are grown.

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  • The plant is mentioned under the name Papus orbiculatus in the first edition of the Catalogus of the same author, published in 1596, and again in the second edition, which was dedicated to Sir Walter Raleigh (1599) It is, however, in the Herbal that we find the first description of the potato, accompanied by a woodcut sufficiently correct to leave no doubt whatever as to the identity of the plant.

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  • The "common potatoes" of which Gerard speaks are the tubers of Ipomoea Batatas, the sweet potato, which nowadays would not in Great Britain be spoken of as common.

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  • Previous to this (in 1629) Parkinson, the friend and associate of Johnson, had published his Paradisus, in which (p. 517) he gives an indifferent figure of the potato under the name of Papas seu Battatas Virginianorum, and adds details as to the method of cooking the tubers which seem to indicate that they were still luxuries.

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  • The cultivation of the potato in England made but little progress, even though it was strongly urged by the Royal.

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  • When the haulm of the potato has grown to about 6 in.

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  • It is known in South America in the home of the potato plant.

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  • Additionally, of the energy the plant absorbs, it only stores one tenth of it in the potato or bean or whatever part we eat.

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  • It has a sweetish taste, much like that of a frost-bitten potato, and I found it better boiled than roasted.

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  • He took a potato, drew out his clasp knife, cut the potato into two equal halves on the palm of his hand, sprinkled some salt on it from the rag, and handed it to Pierre.

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  • Potato chips are sure yummy and can be a part of your diet, but in moderation!

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  • Put a holiday spin on your side dishes by serving red, white and blue potato salad, multi-colored gelatin shapes, and a bowl of mixed blueberries and strawberries.

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  • From nutrition to exercise, Jillian Michaels is an expert in healthy living, and with this show she will share what she knows with families who are desperate to get out of the fast food, couch potato lifestyles they've come to embrace.

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  • Household robots made to be a butler or maid will facilitate the "couch potato".

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  • The restaurant menu includes jumbo ham steak, baked potato, salad and soup.

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  • The potato, not yet a staple article of food, tomatoes, celery, cauliflower, artichokes and other vegetables are now niuch more grown than formerly, chiefly in consequence of the great influx of Europeans, who are the principal consumers.

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