@SatNavSaysStraightOn - that pasta looks delicious. There's something about fresh pasta, when it cooks up, it just looks...better than cooked from dried.
@morning glory - most people here call them hasselback potatoes as well. I'm old enough that I remember when the norm was to take a name like that and Americanize it, to make it seem more familiar. Fanned potatoes (or potato fans), a person could look at those and know what that meant, but not Hasselback (I think that's Scandinavian?).
Now, of course, we've flipped and everything must have an exotic name in order to be deemed worthy to eat. I noticed at my local market a few months ago that the pre-washed and bagged string beans have now morphed into haricot verts...same beans, mind, but now they're a dollar-and-half more.
The price to be sophisticated!
@detroitdad - Happy birthday! Enjoy that boot!
@morning glory - most people here call them hasselback potatoes as well. I'm old enough that I remember when the norm was to take a name like that and Americanize it, to make it seem more familiar. Fanned potatoes (or potato fans), a person could look at those and know what that meant, but not Hasselback (I think that's Scandinavian?).
Now, of course, we've flipped and everything must have an exotic name in order to be deemed worthy to eat. I noticed at my local market a few months ago that the pre-washed and bagged string beans have now morphed into haricot verts...same beans, mind, but now they're a dollar-and-half more.
The price to be sophisticated!
@detroitdad - Happy birthday! Enjoy that boot!
