Potato ideas other than salad etc.?

[laohaire]

I usually make pretty simple potato dishes - boiled, perhaps, and topped with butter and sour cream. Or potato salad.

But I'm getting extra potatoes from my CSA this week and am looking around for recipes but all I see are potato salad recipes, pretty much.

Any casserole-type ideas? Something roasted?

I particularly like recipes with a good amount of fat i.e. cheese, milk, butter, etc.

[frontierpsych]

bake some fries? I cut potatoes into fries then toss them in olive oil with whatever spices sound good at the time, lay them on a cookie sheet, and bake them. Goes good with most meals.

[laohaire]

That's an awesome idea. I have some bacon grease that would probably be perfect for that. How long to cook at how high?

[cristeen]

What I've taken to doing, particularly if I'm feeling devoid of fat is to cut them into good sized chunks, pan fry them in grease until they're nice and brown all over and crispy on the outside, soft inside, and then mash them with some heavy cream and butter. If you cut the chunks too small they don't mash well. But this is the wonderful flavor of pan fried potatoes with the creaminess of mashed potatoes. :

[laohaire]

All right!!! I love that idea too!!

[ms.shell]

I LOVE potatoes.
We cook them most often by boiling first and then, when they are already soft, cutting into chunks and sauteeing with lots of butter and garlic and rosemary. this is particularly awesome with red skinned potatoes. Sometimes i also preboil some green beans and mix them together with the garlic rosemary sautee. i like to use sea salt with these potatoes.

I also really like 2wice baked potatoes, where you cut them in half after baking once and scoop out the insides and mix with butter cheese whatever (bacon, scallions, even canned salmon, or bbq is really good) and refill them, wrapping the halved skin sides with foil to keep them sturdy and then baking again.

our favorite potato salad is more like mashed potatoes and so good warm; just boil the eggs and potatoes then whip with mayo and sour cream and salt. we really like sliced green olives on top. dh thinks the following is highly yuck, but ds and i love this potato salad, without olives but mixed with a large can of red alaska salmon. salmon potato salad is definitely one of my favorite lunches...i have even eaten it leftover cold for breakfast.

[jimblejamble]

Chop them up into bite-sized pieces, pour some olive oil and lemon pepper over them, and bake until slightly crispy on the outside (about 35 minutes for a 9x13" dish).

Or, steam them, chop them up, and cook them with a little paprika and brocolli. :

[~PurityLake~]

The only way I know to make potatoes are in egg/potato salad, baked potatoes stuffed with anything-bacon, peppers, etc, boiling them and chopping them up small and adding seasonings, and baking french fries. Thanks to this thread, I remembered I had some potatoes getting old in my pantry and I'm now baking french fries. Oh yeah, I also have a couple bowls of saved bacon grease in my fridge that comes in handy for flavoring just about anything.

[Alyantavid]

We eat alot of potatoes.

Roasted - just toss with olive oil, salt, pepper and cajun seasoning.
Fries - baked or deep fried.
Fried - with onions in bacon fat.
Baked - topped with anything.
Twice baked - I usually add butter, cheese, sour cream, spices and either pieces of bacon or sausage.
Mashed - with anything, usually butter, milk, sour cream and lots of spices.
Pioneer Woman's Hot crash potatoes
Scalloped potatoes - you can do these lots of ways. My recipe calls for lots of butter, sour cream, cheese and cream of chicken soup mixed. Then just add onions and pour over boiled potatoes. Top with cheese and bake until bubbly. Or just a white sauce with lots of cheese and some seasonings.

[cschick]

Mashed potatoes: skin, chop, boil for ~25 minutes, mash. You can get a potato masher, or you can use the back of a wooden spoon. You can add milk, butter, sour cream, garlic, whatever you want, or leave it plain.

Potato soup, or potato makes a good basis for other soups. If you want a creamy soup stock without any meat and you don't have veggie stock, you can start with potatoes. Skin, chop, boil, but instead of draining, puree the potatoes and cooking water. My "zucchini" soup recipe is: equal amounts potato and zucchinis (chopped). Boil in enough water to cover for 25 minutes, put into food processor. Once smooth, return to stove and add whatever else I want. Add milk or cream to thicken it up, add cheese to make a cheesy soup, add sour cream to make a creamier soup . . . add lots of hot peppers to make a hot soup

Roasted potatoes: chop, toss in oil+spices, roast for up to an hour in a 375-400 degree oven. For variety, add any other sort of root veggie to the roast (carrots, radishes, onion, garlic cloves, etc).

[mumkimum]

Potato soup - plus it's a good way to use fresh summer herbs.

Spanish omelette (like a frittata with potatoes baked in).

There are loads of fantastic indian potato recipes, and they're great to add to made-up-at-home curries too.

There's an awesome dish I make in cast iron with thinly sliced potatoes, olive oil, loads of herbs. They're layered 3-4 times with oil & herbs in between on the stove, then covered in foil and baked about 30 minutes. This is from Madhur Jaffery's World Vegetarian Cookbook. I can't find it anywhere online.

Potato Gratins are also excellent. This one with mushrooms is one of my fave recipes. Its quick and delicous.

[laohaire]

Awesome ideas! Actually, I happen to have Madhur Jaffery's World Vegetarian Cookbook and use it frequently; for some reason I didn't think to look at my physical cookbooks today when I was thinking about the potatoes, and struck out on my online searches.

So I think at this point I'm 100% all set with enough ideas to take care of our potato needs no matter how many extra potatoes I get this week

[frontierpsych]

Originally Posted by laohaire

That's an awesome idea. I have some bacon grease that would probably be perfect for that. How long to cook at how high?

400*F for about 20 minutes. I usually turn them a couple times. I will have to try this with bacon grease, I'll bet it's tasty! I do put bacon grease in mashed potatoes sometimes (DS has a dairy allergy, and he's nursing, so it's the best way for me to get some flavor and fat in them).

[Magelet]

latkes (potato pancakes.) just made those last night, and let me tell you, it is so hard to wait until they're on the table to eat them.... I had a lot of apples, so we made latkes. that's how my mind works (because latkes and applesauce are so entwined for me)

potatos a gratin

roasted with plenty of fat (with gravy perhaps? yum!)

there's a reason baked potatoes with butter and mashed potatoes with tons of butter and cream are classics. they're fatty, good for you, and gosh dang delicious, even if they are "simple"

[Llyra]

Cut up potatoes and boil them until they're almost tender, then cut celery, sweet peppers, and tomatoes (or use whole grape or cherry tomatoes) and put them in a casserole with the potatoes. Then mix about a half cup of oil, about a quarter that much of red wine vinegar, the juice from one lemon, a few cloves of diced garlic, and a pinch each of cayenne, cumin, coriander, and paprika. Maybe some salt and pepper, too. That's your sauce. Mix it up and pour it over the veggies, toss them until they're coated, add more oil if you need to, and then bake it until the potatoes are tender.

If you boil the potatoes until they're almost tender first, you cut back on the cooking time a lot, and the other veggies don't get overcooked. With boiling ahead of time, I'd bake it 35 minutes covered, and then another ten uncovered.

Top it with some fresh herbs-- parsley or cilantro if you have them.

It's good with couscous, or some nice chewy bread, or over pasta, or with chicken.

[Limabean1975]

Sun-dried potato chips! I have not made these, but came across this recipe earlier today when trying to find out how to make homemade veggie chips.

[robugmum]

Mashed potatoes make a great crust for a quiche or seafood pie. I use them a lot in fritattas too.

[bajamergrrl]

Shepherd's Pie
You can make whatever variation you like with this. I usually use ground turkey.