Roasted Greek Potatoes with Feta and Lemon

02/24/2012 · by · 40 Comments

Roasted potatoes have special charms you’d be hard-pressed to find in mashed or baked potatoes. No matter how hard you look.  No matter how fond you are of them.

Maybe, because of this, a strange, roasted potato mania is causing them, out of the blue, to pop into my head at all hours of the day and night.

Like at 5 in the morning when I awaken from a nightmare craving roasted potatoes with smoked paprika.

Like right after breakfast when I can’t blame it on hunger but find myself daydreaming of greasy, chicken-fat-drowned potatoes roasting with an entire chicken in my oven. [Read more...]

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Farmhouse Chicken Chowder

01/31/2012 · by · 36 Comments

Farmhouse Chicken Chowder is packed full of all the delicious and nutritious things you can pick up at a farm market.

There’s a colorful mélange of vegetables including onion, garlic, carrots, celery, parsnips, sweet and white potatoes, corn, spinach and herbs like rosemary, thyme, bay and parsley. [Read more...]

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Side Dish Saturdays: Curried Sweet Potatoes and Chickpeas

11/19/2011 · by · 23 Comments

Fast and easy curried sweet potatoes with chickpeas can serve as a side dish or a main vegetarian entrée. Warmly spiced with a hint of sweetness and a pop of heat this comes together in no time at all thanks to the use of curry powder! [Read more...]

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Roasted Brussels Sprouts, Sweet Potatoes and Bacon

10/22/2011 · by · 47 Comments

Roasted brussels sprouts, sweet potatoes and bacon come together in irresistible ways to make this delicious side dish. A side dish that may raise an eyebrow from even the most stubborn sprout hater. At least I like to think so.

Only because I was once one of them adamant haters. I’m still not a lover, but I’m halfway there. [Read more...]

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Loaded Sweet Potato Soup with Brown Sugar Bacon

10/20/2011 · by · 30 Comments
Loaded Sweet Potato Soup with Candied Bacon

An immensely comforting sweet potato soup garnished with cinnamon brown sugar bacon, pepper jack cheese and sour cream. The soup mimics a loaded baked potato transforming it from side dish into a thoroughly satisfying meal!

The soup is fairly fast and easy to make. Almost as quick as boiling potatoes for mashing. Just one of the many reasons to love it.

Sweet potatoes are simmered with onion and garlic in broth until soft, pureed and then topped with candied bacon, pepper jack cheese for a pop of heat and sour cream. [Read more...]

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