Category: Potato

  • Ham, Green Beans and Scalloped Potatoes

    Ham, Green Beans and Scalloped Potatoes

    A great dinner for New Year’s Eve or Day–but I did it a few days early. I saw shank end hams on sale for .99 a pound and that was all I needed to see.

  • Basic Frittata and Marinated Zucchini

    Basic Frittata and Marinated Zucchini

    Two recipes from the Moosewood Restaurant Cooks at Home book tonight for dinner. The first was a marinated zucchini recipe.   I’ve been wanting to try a frittata for some time. Perhaps partially because my ex’s grandmother’s maiden name was Frittita. So close!    If my potatoes had actually grown this year, I could have almost…

  • Chicken Under a Brick, Roast Potatoes and Salad

    Chicken Under a Brick, Roast Potatoes and Salad

    Flattening a whole chicken by cutting out the backbone and flattening it a bit makes it cook more quickly.  I’ve done this before, with a recipe from Jacques Pepin that was browned on the stove and then finished in the oven.   Tonight I did the same technique, but just rubbed some salt, pepper, granulated garlic…

  • Jacques Pepin’s Cubed Potatoes with Garlic and Sage

    Jacques Pepin’s Cubed Potatoes with Garlic and Sage

    I’m on a Jacques Pepin roll lately. This is another from good simple recipe from Fast Food My Way. I’ve sauteed potatoes many times and they almost always come out great. I guess we like potatoes!  But the addition of the garlic and sage in these was really nice.  I found the potatoes took a…

  • Leftover Twice Baked Potatoes

    Leftover Twice Baked Potatoes

    A few nights ago I was by myself for dinner and decided on a bacon, tomato and avocado sandwich as I have wonderful tomatoes in the garden and had a beautiful avocado from the farmer’s market.  But I wanted a bit of something more too… I spied the leftover twice baked potato in the fridge…