Tag: potato

New Zealand Couple Unearth ‘Ugly’ 17-Pound Potato—That Could Be the World’s Largest

Colin and Donna Craig-Brown were weeding their garden in New Zealand when Colin’s hoe struck something huge just beneath the soil’s surface. As the couple knelt down and began digging around the object, Colin wondered if it was some kind of strange fungal growth, a giant puffball. After Colin pried it out with his garden…


Potato-Lover’s Pizza

When potatoes are sweet and in season, this is a great time to make this carb-loaded pizza. The key is to slice the potatoes and onions very thin so that they fully cook by time the pizza crust is golden brown. I prefer to use a mandoline, but a slicing wheel attachment for your food…


Getting to the Root of Potato Salad

Potato salad has always been a German thing to me. But the origin of the main ingredient was South America, and represents one of the earlier cultivated crops on earth. Europe didn’t see them until Spanish conquistadores took them from the Inca Empire, but soon after, they became rooted in European culinary traditions. Irish potato…


Beat-the-Heat Potato Salad

This is my “I can’t deal” potato salad. (It’s also my favorite potato salad.) In the heat of the summer, when it’s too hot to move, it’s nice to have a few easy recipes to rely on when you simply can’t cope with cooking. These recipes hit the spot without making you sweat unnecessarily over…


Stocked Up on Baby Potatoes? Here’s a Recipe You’ll Love.

I stopped by the farmers market yesterday and couldn’t resist picking up some baby potatoes—two bags of them! My plan was to cut them up and roast them, but then I remembered a recipe I love to make when these baby potatoes are in season: smashed potatoes. These golden nuggets look like little potato pancakes…


You Can Make a Creamy Potato Salad Without Mayo

If you’ve been searching for a recipe for creamy potato salad without mayonnaise, you’ve come to the right place. To make this salad creamy, I’ve used tahini paste. Tahini paste is made from ground sesame seeds, and has a similar consistency to natural peanut butter. When you thin out the tahini paste with water, what…


Potato Salad With Fresh Herbs

This simple potato salad is made with baby red potatoes, olive oil, garlic, and masses of fresh herbs. Toss it together while the potatoes are warm, so they absorb all those wonderful flavors, but serve at room temperature or chilled. I make it in the morning and take it out of the fridge 20 minutes…


This Cheesy Ranch Potato Gratin Is a Fresh Twist on the Classic Casserole

Choosing the greatest potato dish of all time is an impossible task. Frankly, there are far too many options and they’re all irresistible. But choosing my favorite potato dish to make? That’s an entirely different story, and the answer comes easily: a cheesy potato gratin. Potato gratins are quick to prepare and always crowd-pleasers. But…


Oven-Baked Herbed Potato Pancakes

Frozen shredded potatoes turn into elegant pancakes when mixed with fresh herbs, an egg, and a touch of parmesan cheese. It’s all about the presentation, right? Shape the mixture into silver dollar-sized pancakes to bake on a cookie sheet, as I do here, or press it into small muffin tins. Young cooks can help form…


Growing potatoes in your garden

Despite today’s trend of linking the potato to junk food (think French Fries or chips!) the first vegetable that I am planting early spring in my garden are potatoes! In fact, potatoes are not only a beloved comfort food, they are also considered to be healthy and help with weight loss. Originally from South America,…