As a Midwesterner, I love meat and potatoes. The combination is amazing! However, sometimes it gets hard to spice up the combo. I discovered that the Swedes have been spicing up their potatoes for years. They fan out the potato and bake it making a mixture between a baked potato and a thick cut chip. [...]
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Tags: awesome, butter, Garlic, hasselback, parmesan, Potatoes, Sides, sliced potatoes, Swedish 
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I love potatoes. The fabulous tubers are always on my mind when it comes to side dishes. I was looking through my portfolio of recipes and realized that I have never roasted potatoes. That has to change. So I diced up some potatoes, chopped up some herbs, minced some garlic and made some of the [...]
Posted in All, Potatoes, Recipes, Vegetables Tags: Garlic, herbs, oven roasted, Potatoes, roasted, roasting, rosemary, thyme 1 Comment »
The past two weeks has been a little rough. I had my tonsils taken out and I have been unable to get out of bed let alone cook. However, there were a few good days in which I was able to make a few little things for my caretakers. My Mom came to visit to [...]
Last week I got a couple dozen potatoes my from CSA. I love potatoes and farm fresh ones are absolutely the best. Since I had so many fresh potatoes lying around, I wanted to make some nice hashbrowns for breakfast. Hashbrowns are hard to make as fresh potatoes have so much starch in them that [...]
Posted in All, Potatoes, Recipes, Vegetables Tags: breakfast, homemade hashbrowns, perfect hashbrowns, Potatoes, ulitimate breakfast 13 Comments »
I love potatoes and I am always looking for a new way to cook them on the grill. I have done foil packets before, but this time it is serious. The potatoes are plump, juicy and completely coated with cheese. Who could ask for a better side on this Memorial Day Weekend. By opening up [...]
Posted in Potatoes, Recipes, Sides, Vegetables Tags: cheese, cheesy potatoes, foil potatoes, grilled, Potatoes 3 Comments »
I had a ton of left overs from my first homemade honey baked ham, so I decided to make scalloped potatoes with ham. Growing up this was always a dish that my Mom made after we had Easter. It used up the extra ham and it was friggin delicious. This was a great recipe, but [...]
Posted in Ham, Potatoes, Recipes, Vegetables, pork Tags: ham and cheese, ham and potatoes, Recipes, scalloped potatoes, scalloped potatoes with ham 3 Comments »
A staple in my home during the holiday’s is Cheesy Potatoes. Made from hash brown potatoes and cheese they are a creamy and delicious side. Not sure where the recipe originally came from, I got the recipe from my Mother. For as long as I can remember we have had these on Easter Sunday as [...]
Posted in Potatoes, Recipes, Vegetables Tags: cheesy potatoes, cheesy sides, creamy potatoes, easy sides, Potatoes, Sides, Vegetables 2 Comments »Last week I made a pot roast and it needed a few sides. So I searched the internet to find a couple of sides to serve along with the roast. One was the Roasted Cauliflower that I posted about last week. Today I am posting about some exquisitely creamy, garlic Parmesan mashed potatoes. So tasty [...]
Posted in Potatoes, Recipes, Vegetables Tags: creamy potatoes, Garlic, garlic parmesan mashed potatoes, mashed potatoes, parmesan, Potatoes 7 Comments »I love breakfast. Probably my favorite meal of the day. Mostly because it is the only meal where it is cool to eat bacon straight up. But secondly, because it is almost always served with potatoes. I love those crazy tubers. So I decided to whip up some potatoes. These potatoes are loaded with peppers [...]
Posted in Breakfast, Potatoes, Recipes, Vegetables Tags: breakfast potatoes, onions, peppers, Potatoes 2 Comments »I have said it and I will say it again. I love potatoes. They are tasty, filling, and go great with cheese. A couple of days ago I posted Braised Short Ribs. They were delicious and created some of the tastiest gravy that I have ever had. What goes great with gravy? Potatoes. What goes [...]
Posted in Potatoes, Recipes, Vegetables, cheese Tags: cheesy potatoes, Goat Cheese, goat cheese potatoes, mashed potatoes 5 Comments »I am a huge fan of potatoes. Maybe that is the Midwesterner in me. Maybe it because I love starch. I really don’t have an answer for it, but I do know that I love potatoes. So whenever I am looking for a side, I always look to potatoes first. Searching through the internet I [...]
Posted in Cooking, French Fries, Potatoes, Vegetables Tags: oven baked fries, oven fries, parmesan oven fries 1 Comment »I am always looking for new ways to cook side dishes on the grill. The other day I went to an Irish Pub in Alexandria that served potato coins as a side to their dishes. These coins were deep fried but they gave me inspiration to try to make coins on the grill. The potatoes [...]
I always seem to bbq an extra chicken breast every time that I grill. I have no idea why there is an extra one, but there is always an extra. So I decided to come up with a great way to use the leftovers. On a side note, this use of bbq chicken leftovers is [...]
Posted in Appetizers, BBQ, Bacon, Chicken, Potatoes, Recipes, Vegetables, bbq sauce Tags: bbq chicken potato skins, bbq sauce, pork barrel, pork barrel bbq sauce, potato skins, Potatoes, Recipes 6 Comments »
