potatoes

Friggione

December 13, 2011
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I joined a new cooking club online – Taste and Create. Basically each month you get randomly paired with a food blog and the task is to prepare and blog about one of the recipes featured on that site. This month (well November to be exact — I am a tad late in posting) I [...]

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Hasselback Potatoes

November 1, 2011
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Recently I’ve seen a lot of food bloggers posting recipes for hasselback potatoes. This past weekend I decided to give them a whirl. And I can safely say this will be my go to baked potato recipe from now on. Sure you need to bake them for a whole hour – but it’s well worth [...]

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Daring Cooks June 2011 – Potato Salad

June 14, 2011
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I must say this month’s challenge wasn’t as “daring” (or time consuming for that matter) as most of the others and I did actually put it off until the last minute. The mandatory item was to make a potato salad – but you really could pick whichever one you wanted to make. I finally made [...]

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Oven Baked Fries

March 7, 2011
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I absolutely love french fries. But we all know they’re incredibly bad for you. So sad — why are the best things always the worst for you : / Obviously baked fries will never taste the same as deep fried ones, but they can still be pretty delicious. Especially when you cut the potato into [...]

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Homemade Potato Chips

February 7, 2011
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In the spirit of the Super Bowl – which I actually didn’t watch because I don’t care for football : / – I decided to try making a new snack at home.  This happened to be home made potato chips. I had ordered a mandolin on Amazon – which is a magical tool that can [...]

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Tortilla Española (Spanish Tortilla)

January 5, 2011
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The spring of my junior year at BU I studied abroad in Madrid, Spain. I absolutely loved it. Loved the language, the people, the city, the culture, everything. I especially loved the family I lived with – an older couple with a quaint little house and small garden in the outskirts of Madrid.  There are [...]

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Mashed Potatoes

December 8, 2010
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Since I had mentioned dry powdered potato flakes in my last entry I felt it was only appropriate to post a recipe for mashed potatoes made from scratch – in case you didn’t have one and had been forced to resort to the box flakes unwillingly. First things first. You must know what a raw [...]

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