POTATOES
Lightly Candied Sweet Potatoes
For my family, a holiday dinner was not complete unless we had baked sweet potatoes. Mom baked them next to the turkey or ham, cut each lovely potato in two or three pieces and taught us how to peel t...
Posted on 3/13/13 at 8:44 AM
The cure for sprouting
I read something really interesting the other day in one of my cookbooks. Put an apple in with your potatoes, it said, to prevent the potatoes from sprouting in storage. I wish I would have heard tha...
Posted on 2/6/13 at 8:43 AM
Greek Potato Salad
Potato salad is not exclusive to the Americas. It comes in many forms and is extremely popular worldwide. And just about everyone has a favorite potato salad recipe. Of course, like most other people...
Posted on 1/28/13 at 3:56 PM
Easy and Healthy Thanksgiving Sweet Potatoes
Just about everyone has that dish at Thanksgiving that doesn't really float their boat or rather gobble their turkey. For me, it's sweet potatoes. Every time they get passed, I take the obligatory tab...
Posted on 11/22/12 at 12:30 AM
Making meatballs and mashed potatoes
We took a pound of hamburger out of the freezer at noon, and had no idea what we would make out of it. We talked about having burgers on the grill but that just wasn't doing it for me. A few hours la...
Posted on 11/18/12 at 9:07 PM
International Crop Expo today, Thursday at Alerus Center 
By Jonathan Knutson , February 14, 2012
USDA: North Dakota spud stocks down 10 percent 
USDA said Thursday current spud stocks represent 68 percent of the state's production, up from 64 percent in 2010 and the same as in 2009. This year's production was down 16 percent from last year in the state and the lowest in at least 15 years.
By Stephen J. Lee , December 15, 2011
CHEF JEFF: Alaska Salmon Florentine Baked Potatoes
By Herald Staff Report , December 08, 2011
Red River Valley potato pioneer dies in Maine 
Ed Plissey, the first regional agricultural extension potato specialist in the Red River Valley, died last week in Maine. He was 77 when he died Nov. 14 and had recently been diagnosed with leukemia, according to the Northern Plains Potato Growers Association in East Grand Forks.
By Stephen J. Lee , November 23, 2011
New russet potato variety could be big for Red River Valley 
Will a newly discovered russet potato variety make the Red River Valley a yield contender with the Pacific Northwest? Carl Hoverson, Larimore, N.D., thinks so. As one of the key growers of irrigated russets for the Simplot potato processing plant in Grand Forks, he should know.
By Mikkel Pates , October 04, 2011
Kids say ‘potato’ and USDA says ‘poh-tay-NO’
New guidelines from the U.S. Department of Agriculture would eliminate potatoes altogether from school breakfasts and drastically reduce the amount of potatoes served in lunches.
By David Sharp , September 26, 2011
You want fries? Enjoy 'em tonight at University Park
By Associated Press , September 22, 2011
The search is over: Potato Bowl medallion found 
A Grand Forks man found the medallion by the flagpole in Grand Forks' Riverside Park.
By Herald Staff Report , September 20, 2011
FARM: Potato harvest looking good despite late planting 
Susie Thompson sometimes jokes she needs to breed gills and snorkel gear into potatoes. But the North Dakota State University potato breeder is serious about responding to a long wet cycle in the key potato-growing area of eastern North Dakota and western Minnesota.
By Jonathan Knutson , September 08, 2011
CHEF JEFF: Artichoke and Potato Au Gratin
By Herald Staff Report , August 27, 2011
Potato promise 
Wherever you go in America, you’ll find potatoes — in some shape or form — on dining room tables and restaurant menus. Some of the people most responsible for potatoes’ continued popularity and availability gathered in Grand Forks recently to fine-tune their industry’s future.
By Jonathan Knutson , July 02, 2011
National Potato Council hold conference in Grand Forks 
Several hundred potato growers, potato industry officials and their families from around the country are in Grand Forks this week for a meeting of the National Potato Council.
By Jonathan Knutson , June 21, 2011
USDA: N.D. potatoes in storage equal to last year 
North Dakota potato growers, dealers and processors held 1.7 million hundredweight of potatoes in storage on June 1, equal to last year but down 23 percent from 2009.
By Associated Press , June 13, 2011
Campbell Farms buys Ryan Potato Co. 
Ryan Potato. Co. has been sold for the second time in the past year. Campbell Farms, a potato company based in Grafton, N.D., bought the East Grand Forks-based company last week from R.D. Offutt Co., according to the Northern Plains Potato Growers Association.
By Herald Staff Report , March 23, 2011
CHEF JEFF: Bake 'Em Twice
By Herald Staff Report , January 22, 2011
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