Showing posts with label Potatoes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Potatoes. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Beef Stew

On these rainy, cold, dreary days I can't think of too many ways to feel warm and cozy than good old fashioned Beef Stew!
This is a classic, easy comfort meal.
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Recipe rundown:

beef stew meat
potatoes
onion
carrots
beef stock/broth
bay leaf
sage
salt and pepper

I like to brown up the stew meat in a little olive oil.
Slowly start adding in the broth and water
cut up potatoes, onions, carrots-throw 'em in
add seasonings and bay leaf
and put a lid on it:)
Serve with your favorite bread.
Enjoy!!!


Sunday, November 28, 2010

Potato Rosemary Bread

What's not to love about bread...any kind of bread, right? I was inspired to come up with a Potato Rosemary Bread recipe after trying a loaf from Fred Meyer that was delicious! The great thing about making your own is you can control how much rosemary flavor you want in your bread.. I tend to go for the full flavor!

My favorite is to dip the warm bread into a nice bowl of O'Bradys Potato Soup...so good! The bread also goes great with any soup, pasta or just by itself.


Start by boiling a couple medium potatoes in cold water. Be sure to reserve about 1 cup of the cooking liquid for a later use.


Mash your potatoes with a fork or potato masher and measure out 1 cup. Set aside to cool to 110° to 115°.


Add yeast and sugar to the reserved potato liquid. Let yeast dissolve for 5 minutes, until yeast mixture has a foam on the top.



Pour yeast mixture into mixing bowl and add reserved mashed potatoes, butter, honey, oil, eggs, salt, rosemary and 1-1/2 cups flour; beat until smooth.


Stir in just enough of the remaining flour to form a soft dough.


Looks ready to knead!


Turn dough onto floured surface and knead 6-8 minutes. Place dough into greased bowl and let rise until double, about 1 hour.


Punch dough down and divide in half. Place a piece of parchment paper onto 2 cookie sheets. Place one half of dough onto parchment paper and form into a long loaf; repeat with second half. Let rise for another 30 minutes.

Score bread by making 3 long diagonal cuts on the top of the bread. Cuts should not go all the way through but just slice the top of the bread.

Bake at 400° for about 20 minutes or until golden brown.


Cool slightly or completely, slice and Enjoy! So nummy!



Friday, July 9, 2010

Baked Mashed Potatoes with Parmesan Cheese and Bread Crumbs

Need new something to do with your regular mashed potatoes? These potatoes are relatively easy and add great flavor! You can also make them ahead and throw them in the oven right before you are ready to eat! My husband looked at the potatoes and said, "Those look good but i know i am not going to like them!" Great, i though to myself... here we go again (he is a hard person to please when it comes to food!). But surprise, surprise... he loved them!!


Yummy!


Peel and and cut potatoes into about 1-inch pieces.


Cook the potatoes in a large pot of boiling salted water until they are very tender, about 15 minutes.



Drain; return the potatoes to the same pot and mash well.



Mix in the milk and butter.



Mix in the mozzarella and 3/4 cup of the Parmesan. Season, to taste, with salt and pepper.



Coat a baking dish with 1 tablespoon of butter. Transfer the potatoes to the dish.


If you do not have bread crumbs on hand, go ahead and make your own. Just throw a piece of bread in a mini chopper or food processor and there you have it!!


Easy as pie!!!



In a small bowl, stir the bread crumbs and remaining 1/4 cup of Parmesan.



Sprinkle the bread crumb mixture over the mashed potatoes. Great thing is the recipe can be prepared up to this point hours ahead of time; cover and chill. Or bake, uncovered, until the topping is golden brown, about 20 minutes.






Ready to eat... Potatoes were delicious and went great with a grilled steak!!!


Enjoy!!

**Recipe adapted from Giada De Lauretiis

Friday, May 28, 2010

Sausage-Stuffed Pork Rolls

Another Deen Brother's Recipes From The Road cookbook. So far I have found quite a few recipes to try from it:) This was supposed to be an appetizer but I only had some bigger pork chops so it was a full blown meal!
Pork rolls and roasted potatoes.

6 4oz. boneless, center-cut pork chops
12 oz. sweet or hot Italian sausage
3 oz. provolone cheese, cut into strips
6 fresh sage leaves
Salt and freshly ground pepper
With a meat mallet or heavy pan, pound each of the chops until very thin. Remove the casing from the sausage and crumble into a skillet. Cook the sausage over medium heat about 10 mins or until no pink remains.

Preheat the broiler. Spoon about 2 T. of cooked sausage onto each pork chop.

Top each with one slice of cheese and one sage leaf.
I used ground sage because I forgot to get the leaves:)

Roll each chop around filling and secure with a toothpick. Season the rolls with salt and pepper.

Place pork rolls in a pan with olive oil over medium high heat and cook for 5 to 6 mins on each side.

Place pork rolls in a pan with olive oil over medium high heat and cook for 5 to 6 mins on each side.
To serve remove toothpicks and slice.

You could also grill or broil these rolls. Next time I will try to grill them and see how that turns out:)

Monday, May 24, 2010

Pork Burgers and Loaded Potato Wedges

How many of you will be having a Barbeque this coming weekend??
These are some really yummy burgers you might want to try out on the grill for the holiday:)
They are a combination of 2 of Rachel Ray burger recipes-she is the queen of burgers!!

Pork Burger

2-1/2 lbs ground pork
2 t. ground coriander
1 t. cayenne pepper
1/2 t. cumin
salt and pepper
2 t. Worecestershire sauce
1 clove garlic minced
1 to 2 T. Parsley
olive oil
6 biscuits
provolone cheese
lettuce
tomato
onion

In a large bowl combine first 8 ingredients-mix thoroughly. Shape into 6 patties, freeze for 15 mins then brush with olive oil. Heat grill and grill burgers for about 6 mins on each side over medium heat. Top each burger with cheese and serve on biscuits with lettuce, tomato and onion. We just used onion and it was perfect!

Loaded Potato Wedges

6 russet potatoes
scrubbed and baked
Once they are baked scoop out the potato and blend til smooth add a little milk and butter.
Place the potato mixture back in the shells and top with cheese and return to oven for a couple mins. Top with bacon, ranch and sour cream.


Enjoy!!

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Waffles and Eggs

Here is what happens when I'm feeling kinda blah and don't feel like going to the "work" of following a recipe: whats in the fridge and what can I do with it!
I was kinda having an off day so let me know if you think this is a little crazy or not;)
The 1st thing I saw when I opened the fridge were some strawberry waffles that my hubby made for Mothers Day. They were really yummy-with chunks of fresh strawberries-Mmm!

Ingredient list:
waffles-I used 6
eggs-8
milk-1 1/2 c.
buttermilk-1/4 c.
hash browns-1 c.
cheddar cheese-1 1/2 c.
bacon -4 strips chopped
syrup-for drizzling

Preheat oven to 375* Spray a 13x9 inch baking pan. Chop the waffles into bite-sized pieces. Mix together the eggs, milk and buttermilk. Pour egg mixture over the waffles-while that sits cook and chop the bacon-then add the bacon, hash browns and cheese. Pour into the pan and bake for 35 to 40 mins. Serve while nice and hot-drizzle with syrup.
This dish had a really unique flavor-a hint of sweetness and the salty bacon-I will make it again. Maybe next time I would use sausage and add a little syrup right into the mix-if this sounds to weird for anyone just keep in mind I'm pregnant;)

Let me know if you try this one!
Enjoy and have a wonderful rest of the day!


Thursday, April 29, 2010

Steakhouse Shepherd's Pie

In case you haven't all noticed, i am addicted to Food Network!!! I love Rachel Ray's thirty minute meals (even though they take ME more than thirty minutes!) because they are not as time consuming as a lot of meals! The Steakhouse Shepherd's Pie Rachel Ray came up with to substitute going out for a steak dinner! It has a lot of levels of flavor and i LOVE the gravy with the meat, onions and mushrooms!! As Rachel would say.... YUM-O!!


Ingredients:

2 lbs. Idaho potatoes, peeled & cut into chunks

Salt

1/2 Tbsp extra-virgin olive oil

4 slices bacon or peppered bacon, chopped

2 lbs. ground sirloin

1 onion, chopped

1/2 lb. button mushrooms, quartered

black pepper

2 Tbsp. butter

2 Tbsp. all-purpose flour

1 1/2 cups beef stock

2 Tbsp. Worcestershire sauce

1 egg yolk

3 Tbsp. sour cream

1/2 lb. blue cheese, crumbled

3 to 4 Tbsp. chives

1 tsp paprika

Place potatoes in a pot, cover with cold water and bring to a boil. Season water with salt and boil until tender, 12 to 15 minutes. Heads up: save a ladle of starchy cooking water just before draining. (i also added butter to my potatoes to keep from boiling over.)


Heat a skillet with high sides over medium high heat. Add olive oil, half a turn of the pan and the bacon. Crisp bacon.

Remove to a paper towel line plate.


Add sirloin to the pan and caramelize the meat, 4 to 5 minutes.



Add in the mushrooms and onions and cook until tender, 6 to 7 minutes more; then season with salt and pepper.

While the meat cooks, heat a small sauce pot over medium heat and melt butter.


Whisk the flour into the butter; cook 2 minutes.

Whisk beef stock into flour, add Worcestershire and season sauce with salt and pepper, to taste. Thicken 6 to 7 minutes.

Pour gravy over meat and turn on boiler.
Temper egg yolk by beating it with the starchy potato cooking water. Place drained potatoes back into pot you cooked them in to dry them out a little.

Mash the potatoes with egg yolk and sour cream.

Fold in crumbled blue cheese and chives. (i did not use the blue cheese because we don't really care for it at our house.) Season the potatoes with salt and pepper.

Unless the pan you used to prepare your meat mixture in is oven safe, transfer your meat mixture to an oven safe dish.


Spread potatoes across the top of the meat in an even layer. Garnish the potatoes with paprika and place under broiler to crisp and brown the potatoes, 2 to 3 minutes.


Crumble reserved bacon over top. Serve immediately right from the hot skillet or dish.
Enjoy!!!