Here is the potato poem mentioned below.

Ode to the Potato

According the the Bible, the staff of life is wheat

But the way is comes from nature, it isn't much to eat.

It makes a great ingredient when ground and bleached and sifted

But you couldn't call it heavenly, not even really gifted

But Nature didn't leave us with just blandness as a plight

No, she has provided something that is really a delight.

This heavenly treat is found on the farms of Idaho

where is grown in ashy soil that world famous potato!

The potato can be prepared in so very many ways

But no matter how you cook it, there is one thing it conveys.

You let your palate know by partaking of this wonder

That this discriminating choice was no culinary blunder!

My favorite preparation is to bake this little dream

Then add on ample quantities of butter and sour cream.

Some add other toppings in a 'Baked Potato Bar'~

Things like bacon bits and cheese and even chili from a jar.

There's lots of other recipes that change 'spuds' into dinner

We've offered you our favorites in hope that you will find a winner!

They're Idaho's finest 'taters' and we know there's just a few~

From our house to yours they're our Christmas gift to you.

Lloyd Bell

Spuddy Buddy

Wow, time flies when you are having fun!

January has flown by and we are looking February in the face. We usually have mild weather here in Oregon this time of year but it has snowed several times in January and every day has had some temps below freezing.

When we visited Idaho in December, we loaded up on Idaho potatoes from the potato house. We thought it would be fun to give some to our neighbors for Christmas. To spice up the gift a little, Lloyd wrote a poem for the occasion. I thought that it was so good that I sent it to the Idaho potato commission and they thought it was clever enough to send us a box of goodies with recipes, notepads and Spuddy Buddy. He is not as cute or famous as the California raisins~but he in reality, after all, a POTATO!