Cool Potatoes from Garden to Table: How to Plant, Grow, and Prepare Potatoes

by Katherine Hengel

Overview

With this title kids not only learn how to grow their own potatoes in containers, but how to prepare them to eat too! Step-by-step planting, care and harvesting tips give the beginning gardener a good basic understanding of the growing process. Delicious recipes from potato soup to potato-bacon salad, with step-by-step photos bring their homegrown vegetable to the table to share with others!

Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.

Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781617831867
Publisher:	ABDO Publishing Company
Publication date:	12/15/2011
Series:	Cool Garden to Table Series
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	7.90(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.30(d)
Age Range:	8 - 11 Years

Table of Contents

Why Grow Your Own Food? 4

All About Potatoes 5

Let's Get Growing 6

Sow Your Seeds! 7

Stages of Growth 8

Harvesting Potatoes 10

Potato Q&A 11

Cool Ingredients 12

Kitchen Tools 14

Cooking Terms 16

Oh, Yeah! Oven Fries 18

Positively Potato Soup 20

Tempting Twice-Baked Potatoes 22

Fantastic Onion Fingerlings 24

Savory Potato-Bacon Salad 26

Cheddar Potato Cakes 28

Wrap It Up! 30

Glossary 31

Web Sites 31

Index 32