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It's hard to think of blue foods other than blueberries (which are really more purple once you bite into them), but we recently saw a potato salad over at Smitten Kitchen that used blue potatoes. The recipe is below, and if you can find blue potatoes at a farmers' market, they would look quite patriotic next to some red-skinned and regular white potatoes.

Some other ideas that need no recipe:
• Toasted (white) baguette rounds topped with chopped tomato and crumbles of blue cheese.
• Really, anything with blue cheese: a rare steak, a chicken breast stuffed with it and topped with marinara sauce...
• A drink that's similar to this crazy snow-cone one, maybe using Blue Curaçao and grenadine.
• A pizza topped with pepperoni and thin slices of blue potato.
• Blue crab salad (yes, the meat will be "blue" in name only) with roasted red peppers or cherry tomatoes .

And some recipes to experiment with:
• Horseradish Potato Salad, from Smitten Kitchen
• Grilled Eggplant Parmigiana (the eggplant actually looks blue!), from Gourmet
• Fourth of July Flag Cake: A Pretty, Round Alternative (above), from the Kitchn
• Rosewater Panna Cotta with Blueberries (add raspberries or strawberries and you're set), from the Kitchn
• Homemade Pudding Cups (vanilla pudding, berries, you get the idea...), from the Kitchn
• Summer Pudding, from the Kitchn

Any other ideas?

Related: Set a Patriotic Table for Independence Day

(Image: Holland Burns)