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Grilled Zucchini Roll-Ups With Herbs and Cheese. The Food You Crave Ingredients 3 small zucchini (about 1/2 pound each), cut lengthwise into 1/4-inch-thick slices 1 tablespoon olive oil 1/8 teaspoon salt, plus more to taste 1/16 teaspoon of freshly ground black pepper, plus more to taste 1 1/2 ounces fresh goat cheese 1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley 1/2 teaspoon fresh lemon juice 2 ounces bagged baby spinach (2 cups lightly packed) 1/3 cup basil leaves Preparation 1.

Grilled Zucchini Roll-Ups With Herbs and Cheese

Preheat grill or grill pan to medium. 2. 3. 4. {So Wonderful, So Marvelous} My sisters are insane and beautiful and hilarious and absolutely delightful to be around when they aren't being bitchy.

{So Wonderful, So Marvelous}

They are equipped with an innate ability to have fun wherever life might take them, they march to the beat of their own drummers, and they don't mind telling you to buzz off if you don't agree. They do things like marry a handsome foreigner in a quickie ceremony at the courthouse without telling anyone, pick their colleges out of a hat, or get auctioned off as a date on the local radio station... and those are just the things I'm allowed to tell you. They do not, however have a lick of cooking sense between the three of them. That wasn't fair... there may be a tiny, itsy bitsy bit in there, but for the most part, all of the cooking genes came my way.

To remedy this a bit and provide an excuse for my family to have dinner all in one place before Elise returns to school, I decided to teach them how to cook. The Menu Sauteed Chicken in White Wine Sauce. Mashed Potatoes with Brown Butter, Goat Cheese, and Sage Recipe. Guest author Garrett and I made these mashed potatoes the other day.

Mashed Potatoes with Brown Butter, Goat Cheese, and Sage Recipe

So good! ~Elise The story of my first Thanksgiving away from home is one I tell with pride. Sure, we all have epic disasters in the kitchen and Thanksgiving horror stories to tell, but mine is epic. The dinner was a wreck: the cornbread burned, the turkey was frozen inside, the green bean casserole was served as a soup, the bacon for the stuffing caught fire, I forgot to add sugar to the cranberry sauce, and my roommate exploded a pie in an aluminum pie plate in the microwave. Still, one dish came out perfectly – the mashed potatoes. Many years later and I’ve tinkered the recipe with Elise.

Ingredients 1.5 lbs. yukon gold potatoes, peeled and quartered1/2 teaspoon of salt3 tablespoons of butter3 tablespoons of milk1 teaspoon of chopped fresh sage4 ounces of goat cheese chevre Method 1 Place the potatoes and salt in a pot and fill the pot with cold water until the potatoes are covered. Crispy Hash Browns Recipe. Print Photography Credit: Elise Bauer My father, being of the solid German stock that he is, is naturally a connoisseur of all things potato.

Crispy Hash Browns Recipe

In particular he loves nothing more than very crispy shredded hash browns for breakfast with his eggs. Now, there are many ways of frying up potatoes for breakfast, and I think we do all of them. But the shredded variety of hash browns holds a special place in his heart (mine too!) He explained his approach to me one day, while my mother was in the room and couldn’t help but overhearing: Super Easy Side Dish Ideas: Veggies « Secrets of Moms Who Dare To Tell All. Goat Cheese and Chive Mashed Potatoes Recipe - Eric Ripert Recipes. Hasselback Potatoes. Fancy looking potatoes, aren’t they?

Hasselback Potatoes

Garlicky Baked Fries. Roasted Baby Carrots with Marmalade Recipe. Crispy Potato Roast Recipe. Hey Guys! So…it’s still really hot out…wtf! I’m totally ready for fall…forget this, “I just don’t want summer to end” BS…I’m OVER IT! Okay, I apologize for being aggressive right there, but man does this weather make me grumpy. French Fries: The No-Guilt Version. There’s nothing like a french fried potato.

French Fries: The No-Guilt Version

The taste, the texture, the dip-ability; it’s probably one of my favorite go-to comfort foods. However, I don’t need the fat of an actual deep fried potato, and I certainly do not favor processed french fries that come from the frozen food section of the grocery store. Outback Steakhouse Steamed Green Beans. Outback Steakhouse Steamed Green Beans are almost as good as the steaks at the Outback Steakhouse.

Outback Steakhouse Steamed Green Beans

Never Eat Fast Food French Fries Again. {*style:<b><i> </i></b>*} Yes, you can do it! You can give up your beloved french fries and celebrate their exit from your life. Seriously. Before you start arguing with me about how you simply will never leave them – have you met “homemade sweet potato fries”? Baked sweet potato fries have the crunchy outside, and the soft inside and they pack a nutritional wallop with 219% of your daily allowance of Vitamin A in one serving. Half a potato is going to set you back 111 calories (with the olive oil), but that is nothing compared to buying and eating fast food fries (560 calories for a large fries). Recipe: Spicy Oven Fries.