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Tater Tot Casserole Recipe. This tater tot casserole is perfect for busy nights when you don’t have much time to cook.

Tater Tot Casserole Recipe

This casserole consists of cooked ground beef mixed with cream of chicken soup, cheddar cheese, and tater tots. The only real work that is involved in this recipe is browning the meat. You can add additional vegetables if you want such a celery, peas, or carrots. Just throw them in the fry pan with the beef and onion mixture. Skinny Scalloped Potato Gratin. Thinly sliced yukon gold potatoes, layered and baked in a light buttery sauce and shredded cheese.

Skinny Scalloped Potato Gratin

So good without the guilt! This is one of those dishes that exceeded my expectations, you can use red potatoes or new potatoes, but I really love the buttery texture of yukon gold. The only thing I urge to ensure the potatoes are cooked and tender is that you slice the potatoes 1/8 inch thick, a mandoline really makes this easy.

Any thicker and you'll have to adjust the baking time. This is a must for Thanksgiving! Skinny Potato GratinSkinnytaste.comServings: 7 • Size: about a cup (1/7th) • Old Points: 2 pt • Points+: 3 ptsCalories: 160.2 • Fat: 4.4 g • Carbs: 24.6 • Fiber: 1.8 • Protein: 7.2 g • Sugar: 2.6Sodium: 42.6 mg (without salt)Ingredients: Directions: Preheat oven to 425°F. In a large bowl, combine potatoes, butter, salt, garlic powder and fresh cracked pepper. Arrange half of the potato slices in the baking dish; top with 1/4 cup cheese. The Wanna be Country Girl.

This hash-brown casserole is the perfect side dish.

The Wanna be Country Girl

I served it last night with my chicken pot pie to a crowd. It’s cheesy comfort food at its best. The parmesan gives it a tangy flavor, and best of all it’s really easy to fix. Its got five ingredients you mix together and pop it in the oven. Start out by adding 1 – 32 ounce bag of hash-browns to a large mixing bowl. Swiss chard and sweet potato gratin. Surely I’m not alone in this: When I’m eating starchy foods, I think I should be eating more greens.

swiss chard and sweet potato gratin

Scalloped Potatoes. Loaded Mashed Potato Bake Recipe for a Crowd. First, I should apologize, these photos are terrible. Second, it doesn’t matter because these ugly pictures shouldn’t deter you from giving these mashed potatoes a try. They are insanely good. Last week my sister invited us out for dinner and a bonfire and I being the procrastinator I am, didn’t plan a dish to take over until the day of the get-together. Being the potato loving girl I am, I decided to keep it simple with a mashed potato bake that is out of this world good. Let me clarify, good for your taste buds, not your rear-end.

The toppings …. The taters …. Blue cheese and red potato tart. I bought the prettiest little “freshly dug!”

blue cheese and red potato tart

(I could not resist this sign) red potatoes at the market last week. They’re sweet, creamy and cute and need almost nothing to make them welcome on any table — roasted with olive oil, salt and pepper or boiled until tender and tossed cold with a vinaigrette, they’re heaven. But if I were the kind of person who even knew when to leave well enough alone, what would we ever have to talk about? Potato knish, two ways. Where have I been, you ask?

potato knish, two ways

Did I fly off to a small Caribbean island again, only to return to rub it in? Did my book project or adorable distraction eat me alive again? For once, no. Mashed Potatoes with Bacon & Cheddar. 1.

Mashed Potatoes with Bacon & Cheddar

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Peel potatoes, and cut into 1-inch chunks. Place in a large saucepan, and add enough cold water to cover by about 2 inches. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat, and reduce to a simmer. Cook until tender and easily pierced with a paring knife, about 20 minutes. Banger Stew with Red Mashed Potatoes. This recipe is based off of one that my mom makes that I absolutely love.

Banger Stew with Red Mashed Potatoes

She uses beef instead of Irish banger sausages, but the sausages were on sale after St. Patrick's Day and the beef wasn't, so....sausage it was! I changed it a bit and added some more carrots and substituted green beans for peas, but if you like peas go ahead and throw them in there too. Quick potato pierogi. Alright, although I don’t know who, someone has been holding out on me because potato pierogi are so easy to make, I feel that I should have been privy to this information earlier than Friday night.

quick potato pierogi

Perhaps I should backtrack and give you some good explanation for eating Eastern European keep-you-padded-over-the-long-winter-months fare in the stickiest (or so I hope) part of the summer, but I don’t really have one–they just called to me. Plus, a recipe that ran in the San Francisco Chronicle last month suggested that the home cook use wonton wrappers instead of making dough. I had initially poo-pooed this idea–how inauthentic! This will not do! –until my trusted Russian friend, Olga informed me that at home her family made dumplings with wonton wrappers all the time.

Even better, one you can make and eat in the same evening. Potato and artichoke tortilla. Everyone has a different idea of what constitutes eating “healthy” or at the very least, in a manner that diametrically opposes the Thanksgiving through New Years gluttony.

potato and artichoke tortilla

Some people eschew meat, for others its just red meat, some give up cheese or bread or fat or potatoes — I mean, you name it, there’s a diet out there that promises that swearing it off is the answer to Thin Thighs in Thirty Days or You in a White Bikini in the Bahamas in 56 Days.