I don’t care how elegant the meal, I want mashed potatoes to go with my gravy! Without the green onions, this is a good basic rule to follow for making well-seasoned mashed potatoes without butter and milk or cream.

The payoff with these fries? A great source of potassium and beta-carotene.

Yellow potatoes, scrubbed and quartered (or eighthed 🙂 depending on size)
a chopped onion…

1 onion, chopped
1 green bell pepper, chopped…

This is a great dish for when you don’t want any extra calories and a splurge for the artichoke hearts fits into your budget.

This spicy spinach sauce is so good I could probably eat it on its own and be perfectly happy, but the potatoes make it a little more substantial — serve it with basmati rice or pita bread and you have yourself a simple but filling meal.

3 pounds sweet potatoes
½ cup soy milk…

10 medium potatoes, peeled, in water to cover…

Amount Measure Ingredient — Preparation Method
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1 cup pumpkin pie filling — (canned–not just plain pumpkin)
1 cup unsweetened applesauce

Here’s an easy way to bake your own tortilla chips!

Take a potato and slice it as thinly as possible (hard to do, but easier with a good knife). Then you spray a microwavable plate with non-stick spray, arrange the slices on it, not touching each other, and then microwave them until they start to turn brown around the edges (can take around 10 minutes, […]

There are probably a dozen or more variations of baked oatmeal floating around the Internet and in various cookbooks. This is the variation I used.

My four year old daughter LOVED these. So did I, for that matter

Here’s a recipe I’ve used for pie crust. I have to warn you, though, that it will never fool anyone into thinking it’s “real” pie crust. It’s fairly simple:

This one has a real creamy dressing mouthfeel, but not vinegary. It’s an adaptation of a Dean Ornish recipe.