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Fully Loaded Mashed Potatoes
Bangers & Smashed Yesterday, we went to a brewery that has no sign, and it’s down a very dumpy little street in a warehouse. We nervously opened the door and immediately knew we were in the right place. As the first brewery with operations based in Los Angeles in over 60 years, they are dedicated […]
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An Easy Dinner Cottage pie is usually made with ground beef and topped with mashed potatoes, but it’s a lot faster and easier to use potato slices. This recipe comes from Everyday Food. Cottage Pie 3 Tbs unsalted butter, melted 1 large onion, diced 2 large carrots, cut into ¾” pieces coarse salt and ground pepper […]
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A Good Bit of Nosh! An old English dish, named for the sounds the ingredients make while cooking. Some sources say it was originally cold boiled beef and chopped cabbage, others claim it was originally mashed potatoes and cabbage, while some claim it originally contained all three. Today it is typically made from leftover potatoes […]
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Karen Martini I adapted this recipe from Karen Martini’s “Where the Heart is that my friend Sharon gave me. She is a very popular chef in Melbourne Australia. I love all the rustic earthiness of the way she approaches food. I also love her name! Warm Potato, Dill, Caper & Mustard Salad Serves 8 1½ lbs fingerling […]
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Hidden Treasure During our move last month, my daughter found a recipe under the seat of my car. It has been sitting on the counter for several weeks and my husband has been salivating over it, so I finally made it last night. OMG, what was I waiting for! Lemon & Caper Mashed Potatoes Serves 4 […]
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What’s for dinner tonight? The answer, Bangers & Mash! It’s so easy and delicious. You just grill up sausages, your favorite kind (you don’t have to use actual bangers, though my local supermarket does sell them), grill some onions and serve them on a bed of mash potatoes. Yum! Okay, and maybe a salad to […]
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Kosher for Passover This is a recipe from Claudia Roden’s The Book of Jewish Food. The dish is served as a dairy meal accompanied by hard-boiled eggs for Passover. I must admit, my main motivation for posting this recipe today is to try out a new tip that I heard on Melinda Lee’s radio program […]
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A Traditional Irish Coddle St. Patrick’s Day is around the corner, and what a better way to celebrate than with traditional Dublin Coddle? Irish coddle is a hearty dish that involves layering meat and vegetables and “coddling” or cooking just below the boiling point. In the days when Catholics were not supposed to eat meat […]
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Did you ever eat Colcannon? Colcannon is a traditional Irish dish. It is also the name of a song about that dish. It is usually made from mashed potatoes, kale or cabbage, butter, salt, and pepper. The song “Colcannon”, also called “The Skillet Pot”, is a traditional Irish song that has been recorded by many […]
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Lovely Latkes My friend, Jeane, wanted recipes for potato latkes – one regular and the other using sweet potatoes. How divine! Right before I went into labor with my second daughter, I ate a whole plate of latkes and a bagel with cream cheese! Yes, excessive, but I was going into LABOR! The key to […]
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