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Taylor's Roasted Potato Tacos with Creamy Dressing
Quick Weeknight Meals Recipe Contest 2009

Recipe: Roasted Potato Tacos with Creamy Cilantro, Jalapeno, Garlic Dressing How long does it take? 15 minutes prep; 30-40 minutes cooking Category: Vegetarian Name: Taylor Why is it a favorite meal...

How Do I Freeze Potatoes?
Good Questions

Q: My CSA just informed me that shareholders will be receiving up to 10 pounds of potatoes each week for the next four weeks! I want to preserve 1/3 of them in some way to avoid possible spoiling. I t...

Cool Summer Soup: Vichyssoise

When the temperature goes up, this is one of my favorite soups to make. Easy and economical, it is wonderful when served chilled, but it has a split personality - it can also be served hot!...

Food Science: Why Mashed Potatoes and Blenders Don't Mix

When we're making a big batch of mashed potatoes, it's awfully tempting to just throw them in the blender instead of going to the trouble of mashing them by hand. If you've ever actually done this, yo...

New Potato Day: Eat and Plant Potatoes Today

Did you know that today is a big day for potatoes? Not only are they a featured part of most St. Patrick's Day menus, but this is also the day when potatoes are traditionally planted! Potatoes go into...

The Perfection of Simplicity: Potato Leek Soup

Two ingredients. That's it. Well, if you want to be a stickler and count salt and pepper and a touch of olive oil, it's five. OK, and water makes six. But the oil method is optional, so we're back t...

Eat Light: Kale and Potato Purée

One hitch to eating light in the month of January is that although you want a new start after the rich and fatty foods of December, you can't help but notice that it's still awfully cold outside. Rich...

Recipe Recommendation: Pommes Anna

With potatoes filling up root cellars right now, we wanted to share a nice potato side dish recipe. Break out your mandoline and get ready for this!...

Gallery: Thanksgiving Potato Recipes

Sweet potatoes, white potatoes, mashed potatoes, candied potatoes. What kind of potatoes are you making for Thanksgiving? Here are our favorite potato recipes, plus a couple tips on making awesome mas...

Gadget: Rotato Express

Just because we don't recommend unitaskers for your kitchen doesn't mean we can't show them to you. Take a look at this potato peeler - clearly a modern attempt to update those old-fashioned table cla...

Top Five Things To Do With Potatoes

Though they have a reputation for being bland and uninteresting, potatoes (of all kinds) are really one of our all-time favorite vegetables. They're versatile, nutritious, and abundant at farmers' mar...

Recipe Recommendation: DIY Potato Chips...in the Microwave

When most of you mentioned having at least a microwave in your dorm or college apartment kitchen set-up, we immediately remembered a technique we've been itching to try from the good folks over at Jug...

Food Science: Why Potatoes Turn Green

Our post the other week on the best place to store potatoes brought up an interesting food science (and food safety!) issue: why the skin on potatoes sometimes takes on a greenish color. ...

Recipe Review: Arugula Vichyssoise from Epicurious

We love the cool creaminess of traditional potato-leek vichyssoise, especially on humid summer days like we've been getting. So when Elizabeth mentioned an Epicurious recipe for arugula vichyssoise i...

Reader Garden: Aimee's Pepper and Potato Patch

We asked for reader garden photos and tips last month, and a few more came in recently. It's so exciting to see all your beautiful gardens tucked into small spaces - alleys, windows, deck corners. Her...

Food Coloring, Slaughterhouse Suspensions, and Corn-Based Film Fighting Bacteria
Top food news for April 7-12

It's Hump Day, and that means we're here with this week's food news roundup. Come on in and read about why the humble potato might be the replacement for wheat, GMO foods, a recall of espresso beans,...

Recipe: Confetti Potatoes and Pearl Onions

Rubies and pearls - these potatoes and onions looked like jewels when we put them in the oven. The potatoes were Trader Joe's mixed confetti baby potatoes, a mix of white, yellow, and purple. The gumb...

Recipe: Creamy Cheesy Potatoes

This is an updated classic, and also my motivation for figuring out how to make cream of chicken soup from scratch. ...