In January, I made roasted potatoes as part of my cookbook project. As I mentioned back then, it was almost impossible to find the fingerling potatoes that the recipe called for. There were some fingerling potatoes in the giant bag from Costco, but there was absolutely nothing to be found at the regular grocery store or at Whole Foods. I was puzzled as to why it was so hard to find fingerling potatoes. I had thought it would be easy.
A few weeks later, we were out in Staten Island at a regular grocery store and found a small batch of fingerling potatoes. And then yesterday, we went to our usual Whole Foods (the same one where we couldn't find any fingerling potatoes last time), looking for stuff to cook for the week, and there was an explosion of fingerling potatoes! The main display at the bottom of the escalators had the loose fingerling potatoes in the photo above. Every type of fingerling potato was there! Not only that, but there were bags of each type of fingerling potato in the produce section.
It was even more odd because Whole Foods yesterday had no yellow onions, green peppers, or green onions in the entire produce section. But they did have fingerling potatoes everywhere you looked. Just not when I needed them. I guess the lesson learned is, if you want to make fingerling potatoes, do it in February!
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