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You always send me great suggestions and recipes, so I thought I’d reach out to get some great ideas on what I can do with the 20 lbs of potatoes I bought at Aldi Friday! I am going to be doing my Kitchen Prep Day on Tuesday and I could use a little help. Here is what I am planning on making, but could use a few more ideas — I do have 20 lbs! Preferably recipes that freeze well.
Twice Baked Potatoes
Who is joining me on Tuesday? I can’t wait to get my kitchen full of great meals.
I do not have one that freezes well but our very favorite potatoe meal is Chicken Vesuvio.
http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,1739,148179-234196,00.html
I change this up a little because I do not have a cast iron pan but this is generally what I do. It uses about 4-5 potatoes and my whole family LOVES it. I keep my garlic whole too.
What about potato bread or potato rolls?
I recommend Crock Pot Potato Soup!
http://savingandgiving.blogspot.com/2009/11/crock-pot-potato-soup.html
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Vichysoise (sp?), the famous French potato soup. It can be eaten cold or hot. I skip pureeing the soup to save time.
I have 2 favorite ways of using potatoes:
1. Using a large cast iron skillet, combine cut up (medium chunks) unpeeled potatoes with diced onion & fresh garlic chunks, a bunch of olive oil and a little bit of butter, kosher salt & pepper and put on the grill (we do this when we are cooking on the grill anyway). Toss them every once in a while until cooked through & you get nice caramelization. These are fabulous the night of eating but also are great sauteed up the next day with an over easy egg on top for brunch.
2. Potato & leek gratin. I have a recipe in an old cookbook but here’s a similar one: http://www.williams-sonoma.com/recipe/potato-leek-gratin.html although the one I usually use doesn’t have cheese.
Enjoy!
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One of the best is to chunk your potatoes into bit size pieces and put in a ziploc bag with a little evoo and shake the bag. Just give them a nice thin coat, then open a package of onion soup mix and dump it in the ziploc and shake away! Spread out on a baking sheet and bake on about 375 for probably 20 minutes or until the potatoes start to crisp up. Easy and tasty – my favorite kind of recipe. You can also use ranch dressign mix or italian dressing mix to change them up.
I make lots of mashed potatoes. Then flash freeze them. Once mostly solid I package them up in vacuum bags.