Potatoes

by stecworld 8 years ago

My father used to make a casserole that had a wonderful flavor, but, alas, I never got his recipe. I asked his sister, but she couldn't really remember how to make it either. He was Romanian in cas...

by monavano 8 years ago

Hi All, I would like to make potato salad to accompany bbq chicken and baked beans. I have 2 large baking potatoes here at home, and don't feel like going out to get red or other waxy potato. Has...

Help, please. In the '50's and 60's every NY area deli served a typical thin sliced potato salad. I don't think it was made with mayonnaise. It was typically called "German", but had no bacon, a...

What is this horrible trend of restaurants serving these French fries that are either called; Battered, coated or seasoned ? What happened to the good ole fashioned all potato French fry ? Upon d...

Will anyone admit to cooking with canned potatoes? Any good ideas? So far I just saute them in oil and butter until crisp..........

I was thinking after reading the thread about potatoes that don't boil. I've had two meals now at, otherwise, excellent restaurants in Minneapolis. Both had fingerling potatoes that were more ...

by Richelle 11 years ago

Hello everyone! The phenomena of potatoes that won't cook has happened to me a few times now over the years, yesterday, it happened in a beef stew I was making for 50, I had started cooking it t...

We are going on a trip and need to have 2 bags of cut raw potatoes for frying into French fries. The night they will be used is on the second night of our trip. We are primitive camping and will no...

I want to make some sort of Cheesy potato casserole jalapeno, so I need some opinions. I was thinking of either some version of scalloped/au gratin, or with shredded potatoes. First, all th...

I was recently served some of these microwavable creamer potatoes.

Hi everyone, I have a question, I just came to the realisation of what I have done. This week in work has been stressful and so tiring that today on my day of I fell asleep after cooking tortell...

My family loves crispy roasted potatoes. I have not figured out how to roast potatoes at a high enough temperature to get them crispy while not losing the crispiness on the pan. I toss the ¾” chunk...

by ilovecooking721 1 year ago

I have watched videos and none of them work for me (when it comes to flipping the tortilla by transferring it into a plate and then back to the pan), The top is still pretty runny and when I do tha...

Hi, I just read some old posts and I too have nowhere in our extremely warm house and garage in the summer to put potatoes and especially onions. I have read ad nauseum about not putting onions i...

I seem to live in a different potato universe than everyone else. I see all these recipes where you put some oil in a pan on medium heat, then add raw diced potatoes, and they cook in 5-6 minu...

I'm having 6 people over for potato pancakes on Saturday. I work half a day and they'll I'll be going food shopping. I'll have about one hour prep time before my guests arrive and an hour or so c...

I threw together a dinner last night. I roasted chicken thighs over cut up yellow potatoes, sliced white onions, and stove top charred jalapenos. Before putting it in the oven, I added a few knobs ...

by CharlieKilo 9 years ago

Mashed Potatoes: Skin on or skin off? (And please included your location.)

Why do mashed potatoes sometimes get gummy? How long are you supposed to boil the potatoes? I read in a previous post that many folks boil them whole with the skins on. Would cutting them up (so...