Winter

Name: Potato Dill Biscuits
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 35 min
Ingredients: 1- 3.4 oz. package Honest Earth® buttery home-style dehydrated potatoes; 7 ounces all-purpose flour, about 1 ½ cups; 1 ½ tablespoons baking powder; 1 ½ teaspoons salt; ½ teaspoon white pepper; 2 large eggs + 1 yolk; ½ cup light cream + 2 tablespoons for brushing on top; 1 ½ sticks cold unsalted butter, diced; 1 tablespoon dill

Gifts for the Baker in your life

November 23, 2019

Finding gifts for the baker in your life can be tricky. If they are an experienced baker, their cabinets and pantry are probably well-stocked and buying for them can be a challenge. Worry not, friends! I’ve scoured the internet to find you some really fantastic gift ideas for everyone from the newbie baker to those of us who have been baking for decades. Whether you’re a new baker or an experienced one, these gingerbread biscotti would be the perfect treat to bake for the holidays.

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Holiday gift guide for serious home cooks

November 16, 2019

It’s that time of the year again! We’re making our wish lists and our gift lists. This holiday gift guide is for the serious home cook in your life, that might even be you! We’re talking about it all – from cookbooks that are a must have for the food nerd to the latest gadgets for your kitchen. From everyone’s favorite – Instant Pot (try this Instant Pot Split Pea Soup), to the lesser known, but equally fun tools, there are gifts for every budget.

If you make a purchase through one of the affiliate links, I make a few pennies at no extra cost to you. Questions? Please see disclosure for info.

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Stove-Top Island Spice Popcorn with Coconut Oil and Turmeric

March 21, 2017

Popcorn. It’s a movie theater staple and it is practically mandatory snacking for movie nights at home. Heck, it’s even dinner sometimes. While I’m not knocking butter and salt, I like to dress mine up a bit more. I open the spice cabinet and put together concoctions that would make Harry Potter’s head spin. Popcorn doesn’t have to be Plain Jane, it can be “Revved Up Rita” and this popcorn definitely turns it up a notch.

We are old school in this house. Popcorn is made on the stove. We get out the big pot, pour the kernels in with a little oil and “shake, shake, shake” while we peer through the glass lid waiting for the magic to happen. Freshly popped corn tastes so much better than the microwave kind. It’s really not a hassle and it takes about 5 minutes longer than the bag. You can use this seasoning on any popcorn, whatever your preferred popping method.

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Roasted Chicken and Vegetable Sheet Pan Supper

February 28, 2017

Sheet Pan Supper – Chicken and vegetables roasted all together on one pan for a super easy dinner with minimal cleanup. Meals like this are a lifesaver during hectic evenings when you need to get dinner on the table without a lot of effort.

Also known as “clean out the fridge dinners” around here. You know how it goes, you’re running around trying to get everything done, making sure you have clean clothes, the dog is staring at you like “Um, hello… Could I get some food down here too?”. You open the fridge to find some carrots, peppers and maybe a few other veggies. Onions, potatoes and tomatoes are always on hand, so you are halfway home. If you don’t eat meat, or if it’s a “meatless Monday”, you’re done. Otherwise, a couple of chicken breasts thrown on with the veggies and some seasoning makes this a slam dunk in record time. The most time consuming part of this is chopping the vegetables. If I know that I’m facing a busy week, I chop veggies ahead of time and store them in the fridge.

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Winter Market Buddha Bowls with Potato, Quinoa and Beets

February 8, 2017

This post is sponsored by Idaho®Potatoes. All opinions are my own.

Potatoes. Everyone loves them and they are available year round. However, I’m sure you get stuck in the same potato rut like I do. You need new ideas! Well, this one is our new “Go-To”. It has tons of veggies, it’s healthy, it’s gluten-free and if you leave the egg off, it’s vegan.
We all have a piece of that or a hunk of this in the fridge just waiting to get used up in something , right? Here is the perfect way to use up a few of those ingredients that are hanging out patiently awaiting their destiny.

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Roasted Red Flannel Hash with Country Sausage

December 13, 2016

This week, we have a very special guest post! You all know her as Pastry Chef Online, but she is my “Sissy”. She is like family to me. If I could choose a sister, it would be her. We met years ago and it was an instant kinship. She is a talented pastry chef, a great friend and a generous, kind and compassionate person. I am lucky to call her friend and we are all lucky that she has made us Red Flannel Hash with Country Sausage!

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Holiday Gift Guide

November 29, 2016

We all have someone in our lives that loves to cook or bake, right? It might even be YOU! Whether you are looking for a gift for someone you love or treating yourself, here are a few of my favorite things. I’ve put together a baker’s dozen of course. I own everything on this list and use it regularly. Some of the items are newer versions of what I have, as most of my stuff has been in use for YEARS, which is why I chose these particular things as gift suggestions. They have been used A LOT and stand up to the abuse they get from your truly.

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Food Friends

September 20, 2016

Greetings, All! I am away in Idaho this week with my friends from Idaho Potato! In lieu of posting a new recipe, I wanted to share some awesome recipes from my super talented friends.

I do hope you will check out their recipes, as I happen to think they are pretty great! Besides being amazing in the kitchen, they are good humans and I am lucky to know them. I can’t wait to tell you all about Idaho and the fun things happening there right now! I’m updating and sharing pics on social media every day, so if you want to see what we’re up to, check out my Facebook page, Instagram account or Twitter feed for the latest shenanigans.

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Potato Dill Biscuits

August 16, 2016

Remember a few months ago when I went to a food conference and was assigned as brand ambassador for Idaho Potatoes? They asked me to come up with a recipe using dehydrated potatoes and after bouncing around a few ideas, we settled on this biscuit.

When I was in the “testing phase” of this recipe, The Girl asked me why would I use dehydrated potato instead of leftover homemade mashed potato. She had a good question and I figured if she was wondering that, someone else would be too. Here’s the answer:
Other than Thanksgiving (when all of us make extra on purpose), when do you have extra mashed potato hanging around? Not very often, I’m guessing. Also, I don’t want to wait for the occasion to have them just to make these biscuits and furthermore, I don’t want to make them just to wait for them to get cold so I can make biscuits out of them. All that being said, the biggest reason for using the dehydrated potato instead of leftover mashed: THEY WORK BETTER! I kid you not, the biscuits are amazing.
If you’ve had potato bread or rolls, you know that sweet smell and soft, fluffy texture that can only be found by using potato. It works in breads, so it stands to reason that it would be great in a biscuit as well. And it is.

I wanted to flavor these biscuits with some kind of herb and dill was my first choice. If you aren’t a fan of dill, swap it out for rosemary, thyme or whatever herbs you prefer.
The texture of the potato biscuit is fluffy and tender. The crust is beautifully golden and when you break them open, they smell of sweet, buttery mashed potato. You can’t beat that.

Potatoes do not have gluten (the protein that gives bread its chewy texture), so these biscuits remain tender and moist. They are a smidge denser than regular biscuits, but are by no means heavy. They are my new “go-to” biscuit. They are easy as can be, because it is a simple drop biscuit, which means no rolling out and cutting dough. I’ve made a rather big batch and froze about half of them to use in another recipe that will be coming soon! I’ll give you a hint: breakfast.
I’m already planning ahead for the holiday season and these potato dill biscuits will be on our table this year. I can already imagine stuffing them with turkey for a little afternoon snack…

Thank you again, to Idaho Potato® for sponsoring this post! They are wonderful to work with and it allows me to share tasty recipes with you!

Potato Dill Biscuits

A simple and delicious drop biscuit.

Prep Time 15 minutes

Cook Time 20 minutes

Total Time 35 minutes

Ingredients

1- 3.4 oz. package Honest Earth® buttery home-style dehydrated potatoes
7 ounces all-purpose flour, about 1 ½ cups
1 ½ tablespoons baking powder
1 ½ teaspoons salt
½ teaspoon white pepper
2 large eggs + 1 yolk
½ cup light cream + 2 tablespoons for brushing on top
1 ½ sticks cold unsalted butter, diced
1 tablespoon dill

Instructions

Preheat oven to 425°F and line a sheet pan with parchment paper. Set aside.
In a small bowl: combine cream, eggs and yolk. Whisk to combine thoroughly. Set aside.
In the bowl of a stand mixer, with the paddle attachment: Combine flour and diced butter and let mixer run until mixture resembles coarse crumbs, about 4 – 5 minutes. Add dehydrated potatoes, baking powder, dill, salt and pepper.
Mix for a few seconds until it is combined.
Pour cream mixture into bowl of mixer and mix until just combined, do not overmix.
Remove bowl from mixer and with a rubber spatula, fold dough from bottom of bowl to the top to make sure all of the flour mixture has been incorporated.
Using a 3-ounce scoop, portion 8 biscuits onto the sheet pan. Brush tops with cream and sprinkle with coarse sea salt, if desired.
Bake for 18 – 20 minutes, cool on pan for 10 minutes before moving to a cooling rack to cool completely.

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Cold Remedy Tea -Kitchen Rx

January 10, 2016

The Kitchen Prescription. This tea has been my “go-to” for years when I’m under the weather. Lemon, mint, ginger and honey tea soothes your throat and warms you up to get you get through even the worst colds. Winter in most of the northern states is serious. Temperatures hovering in the single digits for weeks on end, plummeting to -20 at night, leaving you so cold that you simply can not shake the chill no matter how many layers you pile on. ~~I hate winter~~, let me rephrase: I loathe winter. I loathe the snow and ice, the freezing temperatures, the slipping and sliding down sidewalks that haven’t been cleaned, chipping an inch of ice from the windshield, car doors that are frozen shut… You get the picture.

And then you get sick. Watery eyes, stuffy nose, scratchy throat and a cough that rattles your insides like gunfire. You have been taken down by the common cold. Once it gets you, it takes weeks until you start to feel human again.

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