UPDATE: These rainbow potatoes are going home with Lynn (comment #26). Congratulations, Lynn!
Our random number generator selected the lucky rainbow potato recipient from the comments below, check it out:
We gave one lucky recipient a 10lb Heirloom Potato Sampler so that they could see and taste the difference between these taters and your run-of-the-mill varieties. Potatoes aren’t boring anymore!
This sampler included a veritable rainbow of options: Purple Majesty, Bintje (yellow), Desiree (pink), Red and Blue potatoes.
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I’ve been looking at a recipe for roasted potatoes and shallots all day. How cool would it be to combine the red of the shallot with the purple of one of those potatoes. I’d just have to make potato chips with them too; multi-colored. The red is such a gorgeous blush color too. I love them all.
I would make my famous lumpy peppery mashed potatos with the purple majesty!
I would like to try alllllllll of them 🙂 I’d probably make a tri-colored truffled potato salad or maybe a funky shepherd’s pie…and then I’d blog it on my food blog for the whole world to see!
I would love to try pink potatoes! Pink or purple mashed potatoes would be a fun side dish.
I would love to try any and all of them! My daughters favorite color is purple so I would have to choose purple! Purple potatoe soup, purple mashed potatoes, purple twice baked potatoes,the possibilies are endless!
I’d love to see the pink potatoes. And I’d probably make a vegetable tian with all those different colored potatoes and green & yellow squash.
I would take a mix of these, slice them medium thin, add a bit of oil, salt and pepper and maybe a little onion and/or mushroom; wrap in tinfoil and cook on the grill. Serve with grilled Kangaroo. Yum.
Alternately, chop them chunky, again toss in a bit of oil & my secret seasoning mix, and roast in the oven. Serve with the same ‘roo.
One thing I’ve been missing from New Orleans is the Pommes Soufflé at Arnaud’s. It’s kinda like a French fry balloon. Might be cook to make a pink version. I’ve used purple potatoes a few times, but I’ve never come across the others. I’ve also been wanting to try an app using potato planks as the base rather than a baguette, etc. Heck, I don’t know – would depend on the size and color, but it would be a fun chance to redeem myself after the Chocolate Wild Rice Krispie fiasco. 😉
I would like to try the Purple Majesty and the German Butterball.
maybe, slice the purple majesty season and bake them.
And with the German Butterball, I would mash them and cook them with a light cheese. 😀 my mouth is drooling. medium rare steak on the side.
And for my nephews and nieces, I’m do homemade rainbow potato chips for snacks. french fries and chicken with sprite.
my parents would want baked and stuffed with all kinds of stuff.
I would love love love to try the Bintje for some pillowy, out-of-this-world gnocchi dressed with black garlic, english peas, chanterelles, maybe some pancetta and a bit of cream. Adore!
I would make a rainbow baked potato soup.
I would love to try all of them because I have never had that many different kinds of potatoes. It would be really fun to try and cook with those kinds of potatoes and see how they would taste. And to see the look on my daughters face when she doesn’t realize what they are.
I have a very dear friend who absolutely loves the Wizard of Oz. I would love to make him a Birthday meal when he visits that would truly be over the rainbow!!!
I’m always a sucker for blue potatoes since I think they are simply stunning.
i love potatoes !!!! there are so many things that can be done with potatoes the possibilities are endless !!!!!! where’s the fork ?? oh i do have fingers too !!!
I have been wanting to make a potato pizza for awhile (a la jim lahey) and I think a brightly-colored potato would make it perfect! Perhaps the purple majesty would do well?
I love the Mom Chef idea of the multi-colored potato chip, and I agree the red and purple will work perfectly together!
Yum! Pink is my favorite but I love them all. I would like to make a very colorful Potato Pave alla Thomas Keller (http://momofukufor2.com/2010/03/ad-hoc-potato-pave-recipe/).
“Purple Majesty” sliced paper thin on mandolin and fried in rendered bacon fat with a touch of sea salt!
Simplicity at its best!
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I buy a bag of mixed color potatoes, boil them whole, cut in half put in a pan with butter,olive oil, garlic, smoked salt and pepper cook them for a few minutes till they absorb the flavors and my family loves them.
I would love to try the Purple Majesty the most, but love all kinds of potatoes. I would wrap in foil with butter and rosemary and roast. Then serve with greens like asparagus or broccoli and sauteed yellow, orange and red bell peppers to make a plate full of color.
I am a breakfast cook for a large hotel chain in New York City. I would love to try all of the colors of the heirloom potatoes, and I would make taste the rainbow homefries. I believe it would wow our customers due to the variety of colors, textures, and flavors.
I’ve tried red and purple potatoes before but not the blue ones. I would love to try them. Yes, potatoes are not just for side dishes and I can’t wait to make some Hasselback Potatoes roasted with garlic and herbs with all different kinds and colors. That would truly look like rainbows. 🙂
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I’ve never heard of, let alone SEEN blue potatoes! I’d love to make some roasted accordion potatoes or a potato gratin/ratatouille with these!
I want to do a taste test and try them all! Mostly though, I am intrigued by the purple and blue potatoes. I would like to do a roasted vegetable hash – simple, deep flavors to really highlight the different potato varieties.
I would like to try the Purple Majesty potatoes. My shepherd’s pie would never be the same!
The purple majesty potatoes look so fancy! I think they’d look fantastic mashed with fresh herbs!
The purple majesty! What a glorious name, how can I choose anything else above that? I would love to cook that into a multi-colored stew.
How exciting! My first choice would be the purple majesty, however, the assortment of colors of the entire mix would be a wonderful addition to our Thanksgiving table.
I don’t have a recipe yet, but I can tell you it would be something where I would leave the skins on, maybe roast? or some au gratin but in a lighter sauce so colors “shine” through.So many ideas!
I would love to try the purple or blue potatoes because I have never had anything like those. I think it would be really fun to showcase their beautiful colors in a recipe.
I would definitely make some garlic roasted purple potatoes! 🙂
I think purple homefries would be a fun addition to a weekend brunch!
Purple majesty is an amazing name, but I adore blue potatoes! I would make beautiful multicolored potato chips and roasted potatoes! I would say mashed potatoes but I wouldn’t want to lose the pretty color in mashing them.
Honestly while I can think of a lot of recipes I could make, I think that I would have a potato tasting of each potato by itself. I would make a duet of baked and mashed for each potato and compare them. Yum!
oh how fun!!! how can i pick which one i’d want to use??? maybe i’d go for some pink and purple gnocchi…probably with pancetta and garlic and loads of butter. yes….that sounds good to me!
I’d love to try a mashed potato recipe with the purple majesty variety.
oooh….I’m thinking those pink potatoes would be fabulous to make pink mashed potatoes with. My girls would just die and go to heaven with those!
Pink Potato Soup! Garnished with small sauteed cubes of the other colors of potato.
oooh…I am dying to make my girls pink mashed potatoes. They might die from the joy of them.
potatoes are my favorite food and i’m absolutely obsessed with them! i love potatoes in any form, you name it! these heirloom variety would be great for thanksgiving dinner. roasted garlic potatoes of all colors. these colors would be very festive and harvest-like. or maybe pomme frittes with different dipping sauces. followed by colorful potato pancakes for the kids the next morning!
I want to try the Purple Majesty but if I’m the winner, I will bake all different colors of the Heirloon Potato with onion, garlic, herbs, butter, olive oil, salt & pepper and taste the difference of them at one time.
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I’m a bit of a purist, to me there is nothing better than the pink Desiree potato boiled until just tender, sprinkled with a pinch of sea salt, tossed with a knob of sweet butter and maybe, just to guild the lily, topped with some chopped fresh flat leaf parsley.
Nothing better!
I would *LOVE* to serve our two young girls the Desiree (pink) potatoes, as well as the blue ones. Pretty sure they’d go crazy over the variety of the naturally colored potatoes!
I’d like to try the Viking Purple and German Butterball.
With the Viking Purple I’d make garlic mashed potatoes and with the German butterballs potato and carmelized onion tarts.
I would use the red or pink potatoes in a potato salad recipe for Christmas. Adding green to it with celery will be very festive. I love all things potato so would use them in all sorts of dishes if I won.
Im totally embarrassed to admit I have never heard of or seen heirloom potatoes before! I love purple potatoes so I would definitely try those first 🙂
never tried pink potatoes…my girly girl would love them
I’m a sucker for purple, so definitely those. I love roasted potatoes with herbs. I’d like to roast all of the colors for a pretty presentation!
Probably the Mountain Rose, but I’m a sucker for any potato I can get my hands on. I’d most likely end up making my twist on patatas bravas – little deep fried cubes of potato spiked with some hot smoked paprika and a cooling yogurt sauce. Awesome.
I would love to try the purple potatoes because that’s such a rich color to contrast with my ivory dinner plates!
I’d put the purple potatoes on a pizza with roasted garlic, red onions, and pesto.
I’d love to try the purple potatoes to freak out my family on Thanksgiving!
Purple Majesty definitely! I would love to try these potatoes roasted with olive oil, rosemary and Kalamata olives. These would be a perfect accompaniment to our Thanksgiving turkey!
I’d love to try the Purple Majesty . I’ve never had a purple potato before. I’d use them in my chicken soup dish. They would be a flavorful and colorful addition to my dish. Thanks!
I would cook in duck fat and call it all good. I would be happy to sample any of these beauties.
Thank you so much – I was having a pretty awful Monday, but this just made it so much better!
I NEED THESE POTATOES