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Warm Potato Salad with Tahini Vinaigrette
“There’s nothing like a classic potato salad, but this version elevates it with a twist of Cypriot flavors. The slightly nutty tahini pairs beautifully with the tart lemon and gives it a delicious creamy flavor. This salad pairs wonderfully with any grilled meats, fish, or seafood but I also love it as a meal on its own. It’s just as delicious served cold and taken to a beach or park picnic.”
Salad:
1½ lb (670 g) yellow potatoes, skin on, scrubbed
½ tsp sea salt 4 large eggs
½ cup thinly sliced celery with leaves
⅓ cup finely chop fresh flat-leaf parsley
¼ cup thinly sliced red onions
⅓ cup sun-dried black olives or Kalamata olives, pitted
Lemony Tahini Vinaigrette:
⅓ cup + 1 Tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
3 Tbsp fresh lemon juice 2 Tbsp tahini
1 tsp Dijon mustard
1½ Tbsp pickled capers, drained from their brine
1 tsp sea salt
¼ tsp fresh ground pepper
To make the salad, place the potatoes in a large pot, cover with water, and add the salt. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to a medium boil. Cook for 20 to 25 minutes or until fork-tender. Drain the potatoes, reserving 3 Tbsp of their water. Cut the potatoes into equal bite-size pieces. Place in a large bowl and toss with the reserved cooking water.
Fill another medium pot with enough water to cover the eggs and bring to a boil. Add the eggs and bring up to a rolling boil for 7 minutes. Drain and put them in an ice bath to cool. Once cool, peel and slice in half lengthwise.
While the potatoes and eggs are cooking, prepare the vinaigrette by whisking the olive oil, lemon juice, tahini, mustard, capers, salt, and pepper in a bowl.
Add the celery, parsley, and onions to the potato salad and toss with the vinaigrette. Serve immediately with the eggs and olives.
May 14, 2019 | Posted in:
One pot chicken with lime and cilantro
Ingredient list
-1.5 lbs chicken cut into 1-2 inch cubes
-1/3 cup olive oil + 2 tbsp
– Juice of 2 limes
-1 tbsp vinegar
– 3 cloves minced garlic divided
-1/4 cup chopped fresh coriander
– 1 tsp cumin
-1/4 large white onion diced (about 3/4 cup)
-6 medium Yukon Gold Potatoes diced
-1 tsp Salt plus more to taste
-Pepper to taste
Instructions
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
2. Make your marinade: Combine oil, lime juice, zest, vinegar, 1 clove garlic, fresh coriander, and cumin. Blend until well combined. Pour marinade over chicken reserving about 2 tbsp of marinade to set aside.
3. Heat an oven proof skiller to medium- medium high heat. Once hot, add 2 tbsp oil. Toss in diced onion and potatoes. Saute for 3-5 minutes, then add garlic. Season with salt. Saute another 2-3 mins.
4. Add chicken and transfer to oven.
5. Bake 18-20 minutes, or until chicken is cooked through and potatoes are done.
6. Salt and pepper to taste, top with remaining 2 tbsp of marinade.
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April 11, 2019 | Posted in:
Twice baked potatoes
Ingredient list
1 large block Velveeta cheese
7 large baking potatoes
1 stick of butter
3/4 cup milk
Salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
Bake potatoes at 425* for 1 and 1/4 hours.
Cut in half and scoop out and mash the insides – save 8 skins.
Mix potato with 1/3 of the cheese, milk, butter, salt and pepper.
Whip into mashed potatoes and put back into skins.
Cut slices of Velveeta and put one slice on each 1/2 potato.
Reheat 10-15 minutes at 375* until hot and bubbly.
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October 21, 2016 | Posted in:
Hasselback Potatoes
Prep Time: 10 min.
Total Time: 1 hour.
Ingredients
4 Yukon gold potatoes
2 tbsp olive oil
1 tsp salt
½ tsp freshly ground black pepper
6 slices bacon, diced
3 green onions, sliced
Sour cream, to serve
Directions
1. Preheat oven to 425F.
2. The key to great hasselback potatoes is thinly slicing each potato into an accordion like shape, without slicing right through to the bottom. Place a potato on a large serving spoon. Slice 1/8-inch to ¼-inch slices along the potato, slicing until you hit the spoon. Alternatively, slice on a cutting board and make sure you stop slicing at least ¼-inch before you hit the bottom of the potato.
3. Place the sliced potatoes on a baking sheet. Brush with half the oil olive, salt and pepper. Place in the oven and bake for 30 minutes. After 30 minutes, brush the remaining oil, salt and pepper over the potatoes and continue baking for an additional 30 minutes, until the potatoes are golden brown and crispy.
4. While the potatoes are cooking, cook bacon in a large frying pan over medium heat until crispy. When ready to serve, sprinkle bacon and green onions over each potato. Serve with sour cream.
June 14, 2016 | Posted in:
Classic Potato Salad
Prep Time: 10 min.
Total Time: 25 min.
Ingredients
2 lb new potatoes
1 cup mayonnaise
1 tbsp Dijon mustard
4 slices bacon, cooked until crispy and crumbled
2 green onions, finely sliced
½ cup finely diced red onion
3 celery stalks, finely diced
¼ cup finely chopped dill
½ tsp salt
¼ tsp pepper
Preparation Instructions
1. Place potatoes in a large pot of salted, cold water. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low and simmer, until tender, about 10 min. Drain and rinse with cold water to cool. Cut each potato into quarters. Place in a large bowl.
2. To potatoes add mayonnaise, Dijon, crumbled bacon pieces, green onions, red onion, celery, dill, salt and pepper. Mix well. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate until ready to serve.
November 17, 2013 | Posted in:
Best Potato Latkes Recipe For Your Custom Cookbook
These amazing food processor latkaes literally take 5 minutes to whip up! And their chopped-up texture make them distinctly hash-brown like! Thanks to Norene Gilletz of Gourmania for sharing this traditional Hanukkah dish! It’s from her Book, the NEW Food Processor Bible. It’s simply delicious- we had them for lunch the other day with a green salad and loads of home made applesauce to dip!
Ingredients
4 medium potatoes peeled or scrubbed (or substitute Purple Sweeties)
1 medium onion
2 eggs (or 1 egg plus 2 egg whites)
1/3 cup flour or matzo meal
1 tsp baking powder
3/4 tsp salt
Freshly ground black pepper to taste
2 Tbsp oil (plus more as needed for frying latkes)
Preparation Instructions
Cut potatoes in chunks and onion in half. Place in processor with eggs. Process on the Steel Blade until pureed, 20 to 30 seconds. Add remaining ingredients except oil; process a few seconds longer to blend into a smooth mixture.
Heat oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Drop potato mixture into hot oil by large spoonfuls to form pancakes; brown well on both sides. Drain well on paper towels. Add additional oil to pan as needed. Stir batter before cooking each new batch. Latkes can be placed on a parchment-lined baking sheet and kept warm in a 250 degree F oven.
(To bake latkes instead of frying, place oven racks on lowest and middle positions in oven. Preheat oven to 450 degrees F. Drop potato mixture by spoonfuls onto well-oiled baking sheets; flatten slightly. Bake 10 minutes, until bottoms are browned and crispy. Turn latkes over. Transfer pan from upper rack to lower rack and vice versa. Bake 8 to 10 minutes longer.)
Yield: about 2 dozen or 5 dozen miniatures. Freezes well.
October 1, 2012 | Posted in:
Scalloped potatoes
from Stacy A.’s book, El dorado hills, ca
Ingredients
4 potatoes
Cheddar Cheese
1 small onion, finely chopped
1 pinch salgt and pepper
1 can chicken broth
Preparation instructions
Thinly slice 4 potatoes, layer with cheese, onion, salt and pepper. Keep layering and top with cheese, pour canned chicken broth over until it almost comes to top and bake at 400 degrees for about 1 hour.
Submitted by: Stacy A
September 27, 2012 | Posted in:
Oven beef stew
by Mandy D.’s book, Colton, SD
Ingredients
1 1/4 lb. lean stewing beef cubes
4 med. carrots, sliced (can use baby carrots instead)
1 med. onion, sliced
3/4 c. celery, cut up
1 2/3 c. potatoes, cut in 3/4″ cubes
1 c. tomato juice
1/3 c. water
1 T. sugar
1 2/3 T. Minute Tapioca
Salt, to taste
Preparation instructions
Mix all of the above ingredients well and cover in a large casserole or enamel roaster. Bake at 250 degrees for 5 hours. Do not brown or do not uncover once. You’ll be tempted, but DON’T PEEK.
Submitted by: Joyce K
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Mom’s merlot beef stew
by Natalie K.’s book, Valencia, CA
Ingredients
1 roped beef roast (eye of round)
1 lg brown onion
1 bag of baby carrots
1 cabbage
bunch of small red potatoes*
bunch of celery
1/2 to 1 cup of Merlot
2 cartons of beef broth
2 cups of water
flour and seasoned salt
salt and pepper to taste
coriander (the magic ingredient)
*you can also make with pearled barley. Use 1 cup of barley to two cups of water and simmer until soft, about 30 minutes. Add to stew.
Preparation instructions
Put roast in ziplock bag with flour and seasoned salt and coriander. Shake and coat on all sides. Heat oil in pan and brown in a 1/2 stick of butter in large stockpot. Brown roast on all sides, searing it well. Add onion and sauté. Add celery. Add wine, water, 1 broth, potatoes, carrots, cut up cabbage. Let simmer 3-4 hours. Keep adding wine and 1 more broth. Keep all wet and bubbly. Remove roast. Cut rope and meat should fall apart. Spoon broth over meat and serve.
Submitted by: Natalie K
September 27, 2011 | Posted in:
Potato salad
by Mandy D.’s book, Colton, SD
Ingredients
8 medium potatoes, peeled
4 eggs
1 onion, chopped
1/2 cup chopped celery
Dressing:
2/3 cup Mayonaise
1/4 cup mustard
2 tbsp pickle juice
salt and pepper to taste
Preparation instructions
Boil potatoes until tender and then cut up and cool. Boil the eggs until firm (about 15 minutes) and then rough chop and cool. Once both are cooled put together in a large bowl and add onion and celery. Mix dressing ingredients together. You can adjust levels of ingredients by taste or texture. If you like a thicker dressing, increase amounts of mayo, mustard and pickle juice. Add the dressing to the potato mixture and mix well. Chill before serving.
Submitted by: Mandy D