Category: Potato
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“Italian” Funeral Potatoes
There’s an old recipe called Funeral Potatoes, which includes frozen hash browns, cream of chicken soup, butter, grated Cheddar cheese, sour cream, and usually some sort of butter and cereal crumb topping, made from Corn Flakes. In my ongoing pantry challenge to use up a few things I decided to do something with the bag…
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Easy Red Potatoes
The price of Russet potatoes is pretty hard to beat when I can get them at .79 for a ten pound bag fairly regularly. In the theme of CheapCooking, how can you go wrong? But for the sake of variety, red potatoes are awfully nice now and then and I picked some up today to…
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How to Dice Potatoes and Onions
In many recipes, you are called upon to slice or dice or chop potatoes. A long time ago, I learned that taking a bit of time to be methodical up-front to save a lot of time (and get more even pieces). Early in my cooking days, I just chopped wildly, rocking the knife back and…
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Things to Make with Leftover Potatoes: Baked and Mashed
I made baked potatoes the other night for dinner but one child didn’t eat hers so I was left with an extra, which I stuck in the fridge. The next morning at breakfast the same child begged for sauteed potatoes (just peeled, diced, and fried in a bit of olive oil and butter usually) but…
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Potato Pancakes and Bratwurst
Potato pancakes are a favorite around here in the fall. I serve them with applesauce and sometimes some chicken or sausage. The other night I had some bratwurst that I thawed. Simmered and Grilled Bratwurst Looking on the Internet, I saw that a common way to prepare them was to simmer them in beer and…