Potato Challenge: Spudnik vs. Vegpedlr

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Potato Challenge: Spudnik vs. Vegpedlr

Postby vgpedlr » Wed Dec 14, 2016 1:41 pm

I love a good potato hack at holiday time. It makes me appreciate my feast days even more. Also I'm playing with the CRON-O-Meter so this will be fun.

So the challenge is on.

Who will win?

Spudnik has a head start, and with a name like that, I fear he has some lost secret Soviet potato power that I lack. But this isn't my first potat-odeo, yo, and I've got a few special moves.

So who's got the best potato kung fu? Watch and see. Better yet, join in. All are welcome, if you think you've got what it takes. Set your "rules," buy a bag of spuds, and throw down.

Oh yeah. It's ON.


Lunch today:

Green potato soup (cooked with spinach and asparagus)
Plain red potatoes with Chef AJ's Yummy sauce
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Re: Potato Challenge: Spudnik vs. Vegpedlr

Postby spudnik » Wed Dec 14, 2016 2:14 pm

Hahaha! First of all, I am a lady, so I'm already unleashing surprise maneuvers.

Second of all, these rules sound like Calvinball. It's anyone's potatodeo!

Breakfast: potato salad w lemon and herbs.
Lunch: potato salad w lemon and herbs.
Dinner: potato salad w lemon and herbs.

BOOYAAHHH.
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Re: Potato Challenge: Spudnik vs. Vegpedlr

Postby vgpedlr » Wed Dec 14, 2016 5:33 pm

Sit up straight, pay attention, and get yer learn on kiddos!

sputnik wrote:
Breakfast: potato salad w lemon and herbs.
Lunch: potato salad w lemon and herbs.
Dinner: potato salad w lemon and herbs.

BOOYAAHHH.




^^ THIS is how you potato hack!
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Re: Potato Challenge: Spudnik vs. Vegpedlr

Postby spudnik » Wed Dec 14, 2016 5:56 pm

<curtsy> :)
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Re: Potato Challenge: Spudnik vs. Vegpedlr

Postby JuicerJohn » Wed Dec 14, 2016 5:58 pm

Snacks? Let me guess...
Jesus *said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me. John 14:6
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Re: Potato Challenge: Spudnik vs. Vegpedlr

Postby spudnik » Wed Dec 14, 2016 6:46 pm

JuicerJohn wrote:Snacks? Let me guess...


Where's a potato emoji when I need one.....
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Re: Potato Challenge: Spudnik vs. Vegpedlr

Postby vgpedlr » Wed Dec 14, 2016 10:12 pm

Dinner:

Aloo Gobi (potato cauliflower curry w/ green peas)
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Re: Potato Challenge: Spudnik vs. Vegpedlr

Postby amandamechele » Thu Dec 15, 2016 6:52 am

Awesome! Good luck you two! This sounds like it will be fun to read about.
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Re: Potato Challenge: Spudnik vs. Vegpedlr

Postby spudnik » Thu Dec 15, 2016 10:39 am

<jumps up and down rapidly>

<plays 'Eye of the Tiger' to get motivated>

<realizes 'Eye of the Tiger' isn't very McDougall-friendly and the world needs an 'Eye of the Tater' remix>

<realizes of course the internet has already beat me to this, at least twice:>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06fFQS__ETE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2x-Zu_EcIk

<carries on with day>

Breakfast: baked frozen hashbrowns
Lunch: tater salad
Dinner: TBD, most likely mashed taters
Snacks: are for the weak. But seriously, more taters.
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Re: Potato Challenge: Spudnik vs. Vegpedlr

Postby dlee » Fri Dec 16, 2016 7:04 am

FUN! GO FOR IT!!
...I'll watch on the sidelines cheering section while munching on baked potato fries!!...buena suerte!
:-) Dlee
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Re: Potato Challenge: Spudnik vs. Vegpedlr

Postby spudnik » Fri Dec 16, 2016 10:52 am

Vegpedlr, where you at? AT HOME WASHING YOUR TIGHTS?

Breakfast: potato salad!
Lunch: potato salad!
Dinner: mashed taters!
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Re: Potato Challenge: Spudnik vs. Vegpedlr

Postby vgpedlr » Fri Dec 16, 2016 12:21 pm

I was caught with my potato sack down.

I bravely signed on but had a bare minimum of taters. Usually I only start the day after buying 5 lbs each of russets and waxy potatoes and cooking up a huge batch. I was sorely lacking Plus, I have some fresh fruit for my typical breakfast oats to use up, so breakfast will be oats for another day. Bought a big bag yesterday so I'm in business.

BUT, lunch yesterday was Red Lentil Dal over potatoes,

dinner last night was Potato Spinach Curry from Isa's book Appetitie for Reduction.

Lunch today, potatoes with one of my three leftover curries.

Dinner spuds with a different curry

Oven full of russets right now

It aim't over 'till it's over
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Re: Potato Challenge: Spudnik vs. Vegpedlr

Postby spudnik » Fri Dec 16, 2016 3:27 pm

It happens to the best of us. I too was running dangerously low, so I just restocked. Should get me through the weekend. :lol:

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Re: Potato Challenge: Spudnik vs. Vegpedlr

Postby vgpedlr » Fri Dec 16, 2016 6:23 pm

Lunch:
Leftover potato spinach curry, which inspired my Popeye post. Over a pound of food for 500 calories.

Dinner:
Borscht?
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Re: Potato Challenge: Spudnik vs. Vegpedlr

Postby spudnik » Fri Dec 16, 2016 6:52 pm

Switched things up for dinner and made seasonally-appropriate, extra spicy schweddy tater balls. :D Possibly not entirely hack-compliant because they were awfully palatable with all those spices and herbs, but that plate is a pound of potatoes and was very, very, very satiating. Potatoes are magic, basically.

(On the off chance any of you whippersnappers don't know the schweddy balls reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPpcfH_HHH8)

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