Apartment Therapy Tagged: potatoes

Tip: Add Rutabaga To Mashed Potatoes

The first time I had mashed potatoes with rutabagas was at a friend's house. She had cooked dinner for us, and asked her why the mashed potatoes were a particular golden color with such a rich flavor...

Tonight on PBS: The Botany of Desire

Are you as excited as we are about the PBS premiere of "The Botany of Desire"? Based on Michael Pollan's best-selling book of the same name, the documentary examines the relationship between people an...

Make-Ahead Recipe: Twice Baked Potatoes

These twice baked potatoes hit a lot of the things we love! We get the creamy mashed potatoes, the tender veggies, and gooey cheese - all served up in a crispy little potato boat. Plus, it's just as e...

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!...

Recipe: Homemade Potato Chips with Rosemary

When I was little, my dad and I spent Sunday mornings on the Santa Monica beach. Before heading home we'd sometime hike up to the pier and buy a newspaper cone of freshly made potato chips from a litt...

Playing a Potato Expert on TV with Sean Conway

I spent yesterday on the set of Cultivating Life, a television show about reconnecting with the land. No, no big sound-stage; no wardrobe and make-up trailers (which might have helped curtail my copio...

Recipe: Potato, Squash, and Goat Cheese Gratin

This is an easy, rustic recipe that makes a great vegetarian meal or a pretty summer side dish. We carted the whole thing over to Central Park the other night for an impromptu picnic dinner....

Quick Tip: Preheat Your Cookie Sheets!

During our recent move, we misjudged where our steps were and landed ourselves out of commission for 5 days. Only being able to lay flat in bed, we spent a good amount of time in front of the TV, ca...

Weeknight Recipe: Potato, Red Pepper, and Feta Frittata

We're not sure what took us so long to get on the frittata band wagon. Now that we're starting to get the hang of making them, we finally understand what a quick and satisfying weeknight meal they can...

Appetizer Recipe: Bacon-Wrapped Potato Bites with Spicy Sour Cream Dipping Sauce

Okay, we're not going to win any awards for thinking up this combination. But hey, these potato bites are easy, delicious, and perfect for a Final Four-loving crowd, should you find yourself surrounde...

The (Potato) Smasher

How about some potatoes with all this beef? Mashed potatoes, of course — the classic accompaniment to a good steak. And you can mash them up with this fancy new Smasher, designed by British grou...

Home Fries: How Do You Like Yours?

We've been on a home fry kick at our house lately. Just like the diner version, ours seem to turn out a little differently every time. Does anyone have a winning method?...

Food Science: Why Do Peeled Potatoes Turn Pink?

Looking up from prep work to find your peeled and cut potatoes have all taken on a disconcerting pinkish hue is a bit startling and downright unappetizing! Why does this happen? Is it safe? And is the...

Farmers' Market Report: Weiser Family Farms
Los Angeles

Blue potatoes, red carrots, purple cauliflower – the rainbow of offerings at Weiser Family Farms is so vibrant right now that we couldn't limit this week's market report to just one fruit or veg...

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!...

Hot or Not? Potato Gloves from Contor Design

We spotted these potato gloves a few days ago and were stopped in our tracks. Gloves? Just for washing potatoes?...

Cooking Basics: How to Boil Potatoes

Boiling potatoes is definitely about as basic as you can get! But here are a few little tricks you might not know about......

Sixteen Kinds of Potatoes

Yesterday I started us on a potato journey with a post about how to select the right kind of potato. Today I'm going to show you the loot I picked up from the farmers' market last week: sixteen varie...

How To Pick a Potato

There is a lot of confusion over potatoes. With hundreds of varieties available to growers and dozens if you shop at a farmers' market, you might feel like you need a cheat sheet to navigate your way ...

Recipe: Kale and Potato Gratin

Here is a simple, nourishing side-dish for fall: a light (no cream) gratin with shredded kale and potatoes. Our local farm has potatoes galore right now, and the kale is starting to be really deliciou...

Quick Tip: The Best Way to Store Potatoes

Humble, versatile, and economical, potatoes are truly the workhorse vegetable of our kitchen. We also love them because they keep for a very long time and even improve with age. (Unlike certain other ...

Grilled Apple Pie (in a Paper Bag)
Delicious links for 06.25.08

Grilled apple pie? In a paper bag? Yes indeed. That and more in our delicious links of the day. ...

Good Idea: Growing Potatoes In A Bag

Last week, we opened the kitchen pantry door to grab a new bag for the compost bin, and noticed these strange white tube-like things poking through the shelf. Wha? Upon closer inspection, we discove...

Recipe: Pecan Crusted Salmon with Sautéed Ramps and Purple Potatoes

With those glorious spring ramps in hand, we wanted to make something special. We thought about simply sautéing them, and making a ramp pseudo-carbonara with pasta, bacon, the ramps and an egg, or ma...

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