I need your help with easy potato recipes.
A while back, some guy pulled up to the house while we were out doing yard work. He started talking to us like he knew us, so we felt obligated to buy some of his potatoes. When he left, he made a comment about how he knew we'd want some potatoes this year since we bought some last year. That's when the jig was up. He thought we were the same people who lived here last year, and came to sell us his wares. I swear he was just driving around looking for people outside to talk into buying some potatoes.
Anyway, so we have a box of potatoes in the basement that I don't know what to do with, besides eat baked potatoes, and that gets old after awhile. We were thinking about chopping up some of them and putting them in the freezer for instant hashbrowns.... would that work?
Recipes Wanted!
Please reply.
P.S. I don't know if it shows up on your computer, but on my computer, there's a little white dot in the middle of the ocean on my "Visitor Map" to the right. I wonder who is checking up on me from the middle of nowhere.
4 comments:
The only white dot I see in the middle of the ocean is where it says "Key: visitor"
As for potatoes...I haven't tried shredding and freezing them, but they turn brown really fast when you shred them so you'd have to get them shredded and frozen really quickly.
Easy potato recipes:
1. Microwave your potatoes until soft. Remove peels (carefully since they'll be hot). Add some milk, butter, salt, pepper, and garlic powder and mash for fast mashed potatoes.
2. Potato/sausage soup. Microwave your potatoes until soft. Remove peels. Cut into bite size chunks. In a pot melt some butter and add a few spoonfuls of flour. Stir together until the flour is all mixed in. Add some onion and garlic and cook it for just a little bit. (Try not to burn them into little brown bits...although that is what I usually do.) Dump in your sausage and break it into small pieces (I usually remove the casing first...which is gross.) When sausage is cooked, dump in several cans of chicken broth. (Just decide how much soup you want.) Throw in your already microwaved potato chunks. Once everything is heated add whipping cream or half and half until it looks like a white potato soup. Add salt, pepper, garlic powder as needed.
3. Oven roasted potatoes. Cut potatoes into small chunks. Toss with some olive oil, salt, pepper, garlic, rosemary (whatever seasonings you like). Roast in the oven in a casserole dish or on a baking sheet at around 350 until potatoes are soft and the tops look nice and browned.
4. Potato-bacon pizza. Make a basic pizza dough. Slice potatoes into thin circles and heat them in a pan with a little oil until they are tender. Top your pizza with cheese, alfredo sauce (if desired), pre-cooked bacon bits, and your potato slices. Sprinkle with rosemary. (I think they have one like this at Craigo's...or they do at the Pizza Pie Cafe here..)
5. Eat them raw like an apple. Isn't that what people do in Idaho?
How many pounds of potatoes do you have? You can make clam chowder from the recipe I have. It uses potatoes and makes a really good potato soup if you leave the clams out. (I did that once by accident and thought it was the best clam chowder I'd ever made.)
I also like twice-baked potatoes, where you bake them and then slice the tops off, mash the potato and then stuff it back into the skins, top with cheese and stick back into the oven till the cheese melts.
Grate baked potatoes (a good use for leftover baked potatoes) and make funeral potatoes. Who doesn't love funeral potatoes?
Make scalloped potatoes and serve with ham. Or au gratin potatoes.
What could be more versatile than the lowly potato? But I don't know how long they will keep in your cellar and I suppose there is a limit to how many two people can eat. Invite friends over for a potato bar.
You can slice up potatoes and onions and foil wrap them with a little garlic powder, we do this out on the grill sometimes. Cube them and sprinkle with Italian seasoning and roast them in the oven. Feed them to your meal worms (if you're raising meal worms). If you soak the shredded potatoes in cold water before freezing, that's supposed to help them from turning brown. There's always mashed potatoes, or potato salad (only chad won't eat that, so it'd be all you)
why is somebody driving around idaho trying to sell people potatoes? isn't this like driving around alaska trying to sell people ice?
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