Tag: potatoes

  • Call of the Camino for Cook the Books

    Call of the Camino for Cook the Books

    This is a great book to add to your summer TBR stack. Keep reading for a super easy Spanish tortilla made with potato chips!

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  • Niçoise Style Chopped Salad

    Niçoise Style Chopped Salad

    The farm bag delivery is the highlight of my Tuesdays.   Most of the recipes that they feature are great.  This one is pretty darn tasty (even though all the ingredients were not included in the bag).   In hindsight, I should have thrown in the sliced mushrooms that came that week.   (Please note the original recipe calls for…

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  • Shepherd’s Pie with Guinness

    Shepherd’s Pie with Guinness

    Happy St. Patrick’s Day. In honor of the holiday, I present a Shepherd’s Pie with Guinness! I’m also including a round up of past St. Patrick’s Day recipes!.

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  • Pesto Chicken Hash for this month’s Movies & Munchies:  The French Dispatch

    Pesto Chicken Hash for this month’s Movies & Munchies: The French Dispatch

    Welcome to February’s Movies & Munchies feature film, The French Dispatch.  Palatable Pastime is hosting.   I have always enjoyed Wes Anderson’s films.  Back in the Food ‘n Flix days, we were inspired by Moonrise Kingdom.  I remember The Royal Tenebaums  and Rushmore fondly.  Then came this round of Movies & Munchies .  You see, I mistakenly thought the February film was The Life Aquatic.   One…

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  • Potato Sandwiches with Pepperoni and Basil for Cook the Books

    Potato Sandwiches with Pepperoni and Basil for Cook the Books

    This round’s selection is 97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement by Jane Ziegelman. It was a very informative and very readable history of immigrant food from the 1850s to the 1930s.

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  • Alice Hoffman’s Potato Soup and a review of The Artists’ and Writers’ Cookbook

    Alice Hoffman’s Potato Soup and a review of The Artists’ and Writers’ Cookbook

    Today is Part II (sort of) of the Dec/Jan edition of Cook the Books.  Yesterday I posted a recipe and review of Eat Joy.  Today I’m posting a recipe and review for The Artists’ and Writers’ Cookbook.  Both are extremely well done and edited by Natalie Garrett. Deb (Kahakai Kitchen) had chosen Eat Joy for the CTB book pic.  I…

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  • Healthy Minestrone:   Welcome to the Blue Zone

    Healthy Minestrone: Welcome to the Blue Zone

    The Blue Zones Kitchen: 100 Recipes to Live to 100 is the current stop on the TLC Book Tour. I’m also including it in my Cookbook Highlight of the Week. Want to live a long and healthy life? Read on.

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  • O Brother, Where Art Thou:   A menu

    O Brother, Where Art Thou: A menu

    Check out this film-inspired menu of T-Bones in the Ashes, “Gratinated” Potatoes and Coleslaw. This month’s feature Food ‘n Flix film is O Brother, Where Art Thou which I am hosting.

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  • Lamb chops with  Baked Potatoes and Brussels Sprouts for IHCC

    Lamb chops with Baked Potatoes and Brussels Sprouts for IHCC

    It’s a new year and a new start! I am cooking lamb for exactly the second time ever and posting my first IHCC post for 2019!

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  • Coconut Corn Chowder with Red Pepper

    Coconut Corn Chowder with Red Pepper

    Late last month, I reviewed a new vegan cookbook, Sweet Potato Soul by Jenné Claiborne.   I highlighted a few of the recipes that I would like to make from her book, including this one:  Coconut Corn Chowder.  It was 80 degrees when I first got Claiborne’s book and was able to peruse through it.  This soup…

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