Potato Skin Twist

Are you wondering what to do with the potato skins that you have leftover from your mashed potato dish?  If you are, then here are a variety of ways on how you can make use of the potato skin.

Instead of throwing them away or putting them inside the compost bin, you can utilize them for another purpose, the loaded potato skin.

Reusing Potato Skin

Have you ever heard of the loaded potato skin?  This mini-dish is often served in bars and pubs, and it serves as great snacks or appetizers.  Simply put, loaded potato skins are the carved out potato skins with some meat, veggies, cream or cheese, etc. placed over it.  The potato skins are then popped into the oven to bake.

You can set aside the flesh or the meat of the potato for another dish, such as the mashed potato.  Or when you are making a mashed potato dish, you can set aside the potato skins for the loaded potato skin dish.  Either way, nothing is going to waste.

These loaded potato skins are perfect for simple get-together with your friends, and they will also be good snacks when you are watching sports or movies with your best buddies.  Couple this dish with beer, and you have yourself a healthy and delicious snack.

Simple Loaded Potato Skin Recipe

As stated above, there are a lot of loaded potato skin Recipes that you can try out at home, the most common of which is regular bacon and cheese loaded potato skin.

All you will need to have are the potato skins left over from your mashed potato dish, bacon, cheese, butter, salt and pepper, sour cream, and chives.  If you have none, you can make use of whole potatoes.

Clean the potatoes and make sure that they are dried before you place them inside the oven.  The oven should have been preheated to about 400 degrees Fahrenheit.

Bake the potatoes inside the oven for about 50 minutes or until the potato skins have turned crisp.  Once done, transfer the potatoes onto a plate to allow them to cool, and if they are cool enough, slice the potatoes into halves, lengthwise.

Remove the flesh gently, making sure that you leave at least 0.25 inches of the flesh intact.  You can set aside the flesh for another dish, such as your mashed potatoes.

Once the potatoes have been hollowed out, brush some melted butter over the potato halves, inside and out, and then season it with some salt and pepper.  Pop them into the oven once more and bake them until the skin begins to crisp.  This will take about a couple of minutes.  Once done, flip them over and bake them for another couple of minutes.

Remove the crispy potato skins from the oven and fill them up with fried bacons that you have crumbled to smaller pieces.  Top the bacon off with cheese and pop them in the oven once more until the cheese melts and begins to bubble.  This will take about four minutes to five minutes.

Once done, remove the loaded potato skins from the oven, add a dollop of sour cream to each loaded potato skin, and then sprinkle them with chopped fresh chives.

Loaded potato skins are best served immediately so as to preserve the crispiness of the potato skins.

There are other recipes for loaded potato skins.  You have Philly cheesesteak loaded potato skins as well as Reuben loaded potato skins.  You can also try tuna melt loaded potato skins or smoked trout loaded potato skins.  Of course, you can always invent your own loaded potato skin recipe using your leftover meat dishes.  You can make all-veggies loaded potato skin if you are into healthy foods.

What loaded potato skin are you going to make today?

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Don’t Fill Up on the Antipasto: Tony Danza’s Father-Son Cookbook with Memories of an Italian-American Family and 50 of Their Best $3.95 In the Danza family, the men did most of the cooking — great Italian-American food that has remained the favorite cuisine in American households for more than a century. Now, actor, television personality, and exuberant cook Tony Danza and his son, Marc (and grandson, Nicholas ), invite you into the kitchen with their huge, at times hilarious, Italian-American clan for 50 top-secret family recipes ("the" sauce and "the" lasagna) and never-before-shared stories and photographs. You’ll meet Tony’s mom and dad, and Tony’s mom’s family, the Camisas. You’ll meet Marc’s family and of course his son, Nicholas. You’ll meet the uncles, the aunts, and the cousins, all important people in Tony’s and Marc’s upbringing. You’ll read stories about an Italian immigrant family that grew strong in America and really lived the American dream. The stories are, for the most part, wrapped around the recipes and the food that was the center of family life: Uncle John’s Pasta with Prosciutto Sauce, Mother’s Lasagna, Chicken with Lemon and Garlic, Holiday Antipasto, Roasted Chicken and Potatoes, Escarole and Bean Soup, Ricotta Cheesecake, and even Tony and Marc’s Quick or Date Sauce, a fabulous tomato sauce that’s fast, easy, and sure to help you impress the ladies. So pull up a chair, pick up a fork, and join Tony and Marc as they cook, eat, and laugh their way through the generations. And remember, "don’t fill up on the antipasto."

The Perfect Recipe: Getting It Right Every Time, Making Our Favorite Dishes the Absolute Best They Can Be $3.95 Which comes first when mashing potatoes-the butter or the milk? What grade and grind of meat make the best hamburgers? How do you roast a turkey so the breast meat is as moist and juicy as the legs? For the tenderest muffins, should you use buttermilk, yogurt or milk? At what temperature should you cook prime rib for the most succulent results? Is it possible to create a fudgy, cakey, chewy brownie all in one? Most of us don’t have time to figure out the answers to questions like these. We need somebody to do the work for us and get our favorite recipes just right. In this book, Pam Anderson, executive editor of the highly successful magazine Cook’s Illustrated, does just that. Painstakingly conducting test after test, Anderson arrives at not only the best recipe but frequently the most convenient and sensible one: — A simple formula for a stir-fry that can be varied with different combinations of meat, vegetables and sauces. — French bread so easy it can be baked every day. — Chicken pot pie for weeknights, made with chicken breast rather than whole chicken. — Macaroni and cheese as effortless as boxed, but three times as satisfying. — Pizza dough that rises in just one hour or throughout the day. — A cobbler that can be prepared with dozens of different fruits, making it 40 desserts in one. More than 150 recipes in all, with dozens of step-by-step illustrations of techniques, comparisons of products and useful tips.

The Best Life Diet Cookbook: More Than 175 Delicious, Convenient, Family-Friendly Recipes $3.95 A good meal is one of life’s great pleasures, but we all know that it can be difficult to choose foods that make us happy "and" keep us healthy. In his "New York Times" bestselling book "The Best Life Diet," Bob Greene showed more than a million people that you can lose weight and eat delicious food. Now, in The Best Life Diet Cookbook he provides more than 175 recipes that taste as good as they are good for you. With recipes like Flank Steak with Potatoes and Garlic and Sweet-and-Sour Stuffed Chicken, it isn’t hard to eat well while shedding pounds. Slimmed-down comfort foods like Sweet Potato with Turkey Hash and Beef Stew with Winter Root Vegetables make family dinners satisfying and healthful. Rotisserie Chicken Salad with Oranges and Pistachios comes together in a snap. Or try one of the recipes contributed by world-class chefs like Charlie Trotter or Suzanne Goin, adapted to fit the Best Life guidelines. Craving something sweet? You won’t believe that Pear and Banana Crisp and Apple Pie with Oatmeal Crust are low in fat and calories. Also included are three sets of two-week meal plans: The Quick and Easy Plan for when you’re most time-pressed; The Family-Friendly Plan with meals to satisfy the whole gang; and The Kitchen Connoisseur Plan for those looking for more of a challenge in the kitchen. Whether you’re trying to drop some pounds or simply want to maintain your weight, these plans do all the calorie-calculating for you. "The Best Life Diet Cookbook" is full of useful shopping tips and culinary information. Illustrated with dozens of beautiful black-and-white and color photographs, it is a book you will turn to again and again. Bob Greene firmly believes that every meal should be a celebration both of the pleasures of food and your commitment to living your best possible life, and with "The Best Life Diet Cookbook," you can reclaim your joy of eating and live the life you deserve.

The Best Vegetarian Recipes: From Greens to Grains, from Soups to Salads: 200 Bold-Flavored Recipes $9.78 Join award-winning author Martha Rose Shulman as she shares the best of vegetarian cooking today. With her encouragement and her great recipes, you can eat seasonally, healthfully, and most of all, well. Using the rich array of produce now available, "The Best Vegetarian Recipes" offers an innovative collection of 200 new classics and updated favorites, From spreads, soups, and salads to main-course stir-fries and stratas, bold flavors combine texture and taste perfectly. New classics like Swiss Chard Frittata and Garlic Soup with Potatoes are sure to become old favorites. Pan-fried tofu, a vegetarian staple, never tasted better than with Martha’s soy-ginger marinade. Side dishes are stunning alone or coupled together. Sweet and tart flavors blend in a springtime Baby Turnip and Turnip Greens Ragout.Entertaining is easy and elegant with reinvented favorites. Need ideas for planning a balanced vegetarian menu? Martha has plenty. Her recipes offer accompanying suggestions to complete the meal. Start with an olive oil-crusted Spinach and Cheese Tart. Serve it alongside a refreshing Orange, Onion, and Olive Salad, or the Shredded Romaine Salad for a lighter pairing.As Martha is one of America’s most highly regarded vegetarian cooking experts, you can be assured that her recipes are foolproof. Never made soup from scratch before? Helpful pointers highlight the winning combination of ingredients and techniques for "Basic" recipes. You’ll also learn indispensable tips for making intensely flavored stocks and salad dressings, roasting bell peppers, and much more.No matter what your eating style, "The Best Vegetarian Recipes" is simply the best collection of wholesome and healthy recipes around.

The Convenience Cook: 125 Best Recipes for Easy Homemade Meals Using Time-Saving Foods from Boxes, Bottles, Cans and More $3.95 "How to make delicious meals from prepared convenience foods. " Create sensational family meals that taste like they were made from scratch, yet actually use convenience foods — canned, frozen, bagged, boxed, or from a jar. For soul-satisfying weekday meals to decadent desserts, all you need are common and convenient supermarket ingredients. With the 125 recipes in The Convenience Cook, managing mealtime has never been easier. Take a can of salmon and create an inspired "Thai-Style Curry," simply by adding some coconut milk and a few pantry ingredients. Create an "Easy Shepherd’s Pie" by using convenience foods like ground beef, canned beef broth and frozen hash brown potatoes. A dozen recipes use one of the most commonly available convenience foods: chicken. When kids need a quick treat, simply unwrap the crescent roll dough, add some applesauce, dried cranberries, a little sugar and cinnamon and presto you have an easy and delicious "Apple Cranberry Pan Dowdy." Included is a listing of pantry staples and lots of helpful tips, techniques and imaginative variations for each recipe.

Feed Your Skin, Starve Your Wrinkles: Eat Your Way to Firmer, More Beautiful Skin with 100 Best Anti-Aging Foods $20.73 "At long last, a book that tells all about the connection between diet and health and the look of your skin. Everyone interested in beautiful skin should read this book " –Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., best-selling author of "The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth" Beets. Pumpkin Seeds. Mangoes. What do these foods have in common? They are some of the very best foods for fighting aging and keeping your skin beautiful. How? The nutrients in these foods–from vitamins A, B, and C to the minerals iron and zinc–act as powerful antioxidants, neutralizing the free radicals that form in your skin due to sun exposure, environmental toxins, and a poor diet. The entire body needs these antioxidants in order to work properly and give us the glowing, healthy appearance we crave. Inside, you’ll learn more about how the three superstar foods above–and ninety-seven others–can do more for your skin and overall beauty than any expensive night cream, facelift, or Botox injection. Nutritional scientist Allison Tannis will walk you through the many layers of your skin and reveal what actions you can take to prevent wrinkles, eliminate existing ones, and improve your complexion. No waiting lists, risky surgeries, or astronomical costs–just delicious, healthy food. You’ll discover: Which well-known foods in your fruit bowl and fridge are best for fighting puffiness, sagging, acne, and more (think apples, pears, carrots, and potatoes) What new-to-you foods you can introduce to your diet to keep you looking fresh-faced and glowing (mackerel and mangosteen included) Why some surprising foods–like chocolate, eggs, and maple syrup–don’t deserve all the bad press and why your skin needs them What foods you should stay away from to avoid oily-looking, inflamed, or wrinkled skin In addition, you’ll also find fifty delicious recipes specially formulated to improve your complexion. Each recipe contains at least one of the 100 featured foods, making it easier than ever to get your skin-healthy lifestyle started. Become your most beautiful the natural way–with "Feed Your Skin, Starve Your Wrinkles. "

Bud the Spud $5.45 Bud the Spud relays Stompin Tom Connors’ famous and irresistable song about potatoes, in lively storybook form. Travel with Bud as he steers his rig down the highway with a load of "the best doggone potatoes that’s ever been growed." A Canadian classic by a legendary folk hero.

Kitchen Garden Cookbook: Tomatoes $4.16 A charming guide to a vegetable patch staple, with recipes for both familiar and unusual dishes to help all gardeners make the most of their crop Everything a gardener and cook needs to know about the humble potato, both in the ground and on the plate, can be found in this resource. It contains a guide to the best varieties to plant–from small, waxy salad potatoes to the floury types that are perfect for roasting–and full and foolproof instructions on when, where, and how to plant them, and when to harvest both early and maincrop potatoes. There is also a wealth of potato recipes, from simple-but-delicious jacket potatoes and the creamiest mashed potatoes to more unfamiliar ones, such as the Dutch dish Hot Lightning and Swedish dish Janssen’s Temptation. The book is also packed with fascinating facts and history–who knew that potatoes were the first vegetables to be grown in space? This warm, comforting, and sometimes surprising guide is the ideal book for gardeners of all skill levels who love to cook what they’ve grown.

Potato Baker w/4 Prongs(Pack of 10) $5 Easily positions potatoes vertically in the oven for best baking results. Hangs from or rests on oven rack. Raised potatos are baked more thoroughly and completely throughout. Folds flat for storage when not in use. Hand wash. Meaures 5″ x 5.75 inche

Flavorite Mushroom Gravy Mix Expires 12/13(Pack of 24) $1.35 Mushroom Gravy Mix: Flavorite Mushroom Gravy Mix will make the best tasting mushroom gravy for your meat and potatoes. This is a National Brand Equivalent and is sure to be a crowd pleaser. There are 24 packs per case and each pack is .75oz

In the Kitchen with Family & Friends: A 15th Anniversary Keepsake of Tasty Recipes, Favorite Photos and Sweet Memories from Our Fa $3.9 For our 15th Anniversary, friends from across the country shared their favorite recipes like honey-roasted pork with autumn rice, best-ever potato salad, garlic & basil mashed potatoes and soft southern sugar cookies. To celebrate the years (and make you smile ), we’ve sprinkled Gooseberry Patch photos and memories throughout.

Food Should Taste Good Barbeque Sweet Potato Chips(Pack of 24) $3.99 BEST BUY DATE OF 6/4 1 oz in sealed bag kettle cooked seasoned with tomato, molasses, garlic, onion, vinegar. Certified gluten free, certified Kosher. Ingredients: Sweet potatoes, sunflower oil, evaporated cane juice, maltodextr

Breakfasts & Brunches $3.94 The best of breakfast is revealed in this 4-page laminated, spillproof chart filled with recipes covering a variety of favorite dishes. Chart includes detailed information on: – variations on preparing eggs – omelets – pancakes & waffles – blintzes – baked apple pancake – crepes – buns, muffins & cakes – French toast – beignets – burritos – quiches – potatoes – meats

Growing Vegetable Soup $3.95 Together, a father and child share the joys of planting, watering, and watching seeds grow. And once their harvest of tomatoes, potatoes, cabbage, and corn is ready, they’ll cook it up into the best soup ever Lois Ehlert’s bright, graphic art and simple text make this vibrant board book a perfect read-aloud for budding gardeners and their families.

My Dog Thinks He’s Human: 50 Ways to a Happy Healthy Pet $3.95 It’s been said that you shouldn’t make the mistake of treating your dogs like a human, or they’ll treat you like a dog. Nevertheless, lots of pooches are picky eaters or couch potatoes, as well as best friend and confident. In MY DOG THINKS HE’S HUMAN, a veterinarian offers ideas for keeping dogs active and content, without offering them the master bedroom. From choosing a puppy to training Rover to ignore the postman, here are a vet’s best tips and tricks for keeping a happy, healthy pet.

How to Grow Your Food: A Guide for Complete Beginners $12.52 Perplexed by potatoes? Baffled by beans? Confused by courgettes?Home grown food means fresh, organic, tasty meals, less money spent in a supermarket, lower carbon footprint and best of all, fun But how do you do it?If you’ve never opened a seed packet before, and want to grow your food but don’t know where or when to start, this book is for you. With advice for the new gardener, covering everything from how to plant seeds, when to pull up the carrot and how to harvest potatoes, this book will sort you out – whether you have a balcony, bare concrete, a patio or a larger patch of ground.All the basic info for those who want to grow their own foodAdvice about growing on balconies, patios or in your back gardenLists over 40 easy-to-grow crops

Cuisinart 622-30H Chefs Classic Non-Stick Hard Anodized 12in Skillet $39.82 Cuisinart’s 12-in. omelette pan is large enough for a spinach and mushroom frittata, a Virginia ham steak or country potatoes with peppers and onions. The hard-anodized exterior is durable, dense and non-porous and one of the best materials for absorbing and distributing heat. The interior is made of Quantanium nonstick, reinforced with titanium so foods release easily, cooking is healthier with no added oils and cleanup is super quick. The cool-grip handle is dual riveted for added strength.

Natural Ultramix Adult Canine FormulaAdult 15 lb $37.83 Natural ULTRAMIX Adult Dog Food is formulated to maintain the health and well-being of your best friend! Natural ULTRAMIX Adult Dog Food offers outstanding digestibility and taste.Real fruits and vegetables combined with the kibble provide additional vitamins minerals antioxidants enzymes and natural dietary fiber. You’ll see the pieces of bananas carrots sweet potatoes and cranberry in every bag! Flaxseed and salmon meal are quality sources of Omega 6 and Omega 3 Fatty Acids.

Ultramix Canned Chicken Veggie & Brown Rice Puppy FormulaChicken Veggie & Brown Rice 13.2 oz $2.84 Theres nothing more important than providing your puppy with the best possible nutritional start. Our recipe is fortified with a natural source of DHA that support brain and vision development and optimal levels of calcium and phosphorous for strong teeth and bones.Our stew-style formula combines natural chicken with real pieces of potatoes peas carrots blueberries apples spinach cranberries brown rice and flaxseed. This 100% complete and balanced canned puppy food can be fed alone or mixed with dry kibble.

A Pinch of This, a Dash of That $4.74 Grandma’s recipes were never written down…she always said they were just a pinch of this and a dash of that For this charming cookbook we’ve tucked in some of the best recipes from days gone by like Yankee fried chicken, whipped sweet potatoes, feather bed rolls and daisy brown sugar cookies. We’ve also filled the pages with lighthearted quotes full of good old-fashioned advice.

Chirchir Is Singing $6.21 Chirchir just wants to make herself useful like all her other family members. But she drops Mama’s water bucket, spills Kogo’s tea, and sends Baba’s potatoes tumbling down the hill. Isn’t there something that Chirchir does best? Set in the rolling hills of rural Kenya, this is a wise and lyrical story about belonging from Kelly Cunnane, the author of the Ezra Jack Keats Award winner "For You Are a Kenyan Child, " accompanied by Jude Daly’s beautiful folk art-style illustrations.

I Don’t Care! Said Claire $6.58 New – Claire knows best. She doesn’t listen to warnings from her family. She doesn’t wash behind her ears, she tells lies and she watches too much telly. What will become of her? Watch Claire transform as potatoes appear behind her ears; her nose grows; her eyes turn square and her hair loses its curls. But Claire doesn’t care, until …she ignores one final warning! Hodgson sets up each scene with a hint of what might happen – the story then revealed through Rowe’s lively and bold illustration

I Don’t Care! Said Claire $2.69 New – Claire knows best. She doesn’t listen to warnings from her family. She doesn’t wash behind her ears, she tells lies and she watches too much telly. What will become of her? Watch Claire transform as potatoes appear behind her ears; her nose grows; her eyes turn square and her hair loses its curls. But Claire doesn’t care, until …she ignores one final warning! Hodgson sets up each scene with a hint of what might happen – the story then revealed through Rowe’s lively and bold illustration

I Don’t Care! Said Claire $2.69 Used – Claire knows best. She doesn’t listen to warnings from her family. She doesn’t wash behind her ears, she tells lies and she watches too much telly. What will become of her? Watch Claire transform as potatoes appear behind her ears; her nose grows; her eyes turn square and her hair loses its curls. But Claire doesn’t care, until …she ignores one final warning! Hodgson sets up each scene with a hint of what might happen – the story then revealed through Rowe’s lively and bold illustratio

I Don’t Care! Said Claire $6.58 Used – Claire knows best. She doesn’t listen to warnings from her family. She doesn’t wash behind her ears, she tells lies and she watches too much telly. What will become of her? Watch Claire transform as potatoes appear behind her ears; her nose grows; her eyes turn square and her hair loses its curls. But Claire doesn’t care, until …she ignores one final warning! Hodgson sets up each scene with a hint of what might happen – the story then revealed through Rowe’s lively and bold illustratio

SpudWare? Knives, Set of 50 $6 “This high-heat tolerant, biodegradable, attractive partyware made from 80% potato or corn starch and 20% soy or other vegetable oils is compostable. You can?t beat the cleanup-free convenience of disposable tableware. But even the best recycled options create waste when thrown away. Our new partyware solves the problem by being 100% compostable! Tree- and petroleum-free, it?s renewably made using new technologies that convert corn sugars into clear plastic-like cold cups, potatoes into biodegradable plastic-like white utensils, and parts of sugar cane plants that aren?t used in making sugar into white paper-like hot cups, bowls and plates. Compost the hot cups, bowls and plates at home for your lawn or garden as soon as the party is over. The cold cups and utensils can be composted through your local composting facility.”

1/2 French Fry Cutter $200.2 With its durable cast iron body and handle, this French fry cutter easily cuts whole potatoes into 1/2 wide strips. The 1/2 French fry cutter’s blade assembly frame and pusher block are rust proof, and remove easily after use for simple cleaning (hand wash only) and sanitizing. Assembly required. This fry cutter is best for lighter duty use. Not recommended for cutting sweet potatoes. For commercial use, the comparable Nemco model is best.

100 Most Dangerous Things in Everyday Life and What You Can Do about Them $46.1 Fact: More people are killed annually by teddy bears than by grizzly bears. Fact: Each year, thousands of couch potatoes are admitted to emergency rooms for television-related injuries. Fact: There are more germs on your desk than there are on your toilet. Forget about lions, tigers, and sharks–in a world where vacuum cleaners are more dangerous than venomous spiders, and household cleaner is more deadly than anthrax, it pays to know the risks of daily living–and how to avoid them. In this witty and wonderfully practical guide, Laura Lee reveals the 100 Most Dangerous Things in Everyday Life and What You Can Do About Them. From rubber bands and paper clips to wading pools and holy water, readers will learn: – The probability of encountering each threat – How to determine the magnitude of danger – Expert advice on how best to minimize the hazard – Statistics on how many people have met their demise as a result of these risks Equipped with this worst-case scenario guide to armchair misadventures, alarmists, hypochondriacs, paranoids, and skeptics alike will be prepared for anything that comes their way–at home, at work, or at play.

101 Camping & Outdoor Recipes Cookbook $1 It’s a fact that food just tastes better outdoors. Now with 101 Camping & Outdoor Recipes, even campers who have never cooked anything more complicated than Smores can make great meals and snacks over the campfire. You no longer need to sacrifice eating well just because you are not in your home kitchen. 101 Camping & Outdoor Recipes provides you with 101 delicious, and easy-to-prepare recipes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner that are sure to make you a hit around the campfire.Below are some of the tasty recipes you will find inside the 101 Camping & Outdoor Recipes cookbook: * 20 Minute Hamburger Skillet Stew * Antiguan Charcoal Baked Bananas * Aunt Sarah’s Chili Sauce * Australian Grilled Fish * Baked Stuffed Fish * Best Damn Peach Cobbler * Blackened Fish * Blazing Trail Mix * Buckwheat Pecan Pancakes For Camping * Burgers In Foil * Buttermilk Biscuits * Camp Au Gratin Potatoes * Camp Chili * Camp Cobbler Delight * Camp Hash * Camp Pasta * Camp Potatoes * Camp Stew * Camper’s Baked Potatoes * Camper’s Buckwheat Pancakes * Camper’s Cookies * Camper’s Sausage * Camper’s Stew * Campers Hobo Pie * Campers Pizza Pie * Campfire Biscuits * Campfire Cinnamon Coffeecake * Campfire Coffee * Campfire Fondue * Campfire Fried Rice * Campfire Hash * Campfire Pork And Beans * Cheesy Chicken Rolls * Cherry Fudge Goodies * Chicken In Foil

101 Things to Do With a Potato $9.99 One potato, two potato, three potato-four! Introducing the next book in our thriving 101 series, 101 Things to do With a Potato. Each year, the average American consumes close to 140 pounds of potatoes. With that in mind, nothing seems better than a cookbook featuring one of America’s major food staples-the potato! “Mrs. 101″ Stephanie Ashcraft has ingeniously created simple recipes that take potatoes to a whole new level. Try a Breakfast Burrito in the morning, sample the Sausage Corn Chowder for lunch, have the Italian Potato Chips as a mid-afternoon snack, for dinner try the Potato Crust Pizza, and then savor the Sweet Potato Cheesecake for dessert!Stephanie Ashcraft, author of the New York Times best-selling 101 Things to do With a Cake Mix, is a full-time mom who has created and collected recipes for years.

101 Things to Do with a Potato $4.99 One potato, two potato, three potato-four! Introducing the next book in our thriving 101 series, 101 Things to do With a Potato. Each year, the average American consumes close to 140 pounds of potatoes. With that in mind, nothing seems better than a cookbook featuring one of America’s major food staples-the potato! “Mrs. 101″ Stephanie Ashcraft has ingeniously created simple recipes that take potatoes to a whole new level. Try a Breakfast Burrito in the morning, sample the Sausage Corn Chowder for lunch, have the Italian Potato Chips as a mid-afternoon snack, for dinner try the Potato Crust Pizza, and then savor the Sweet Potato Cheesecake for dessert!Stephanie Ashcraft, author of the New York Times best-selling 101 Things to do With a Cake Mix, is a full-time mom who has created and collected recipes for years. She also teaches a monthly cooking class for Macey’s Little Cooking Theater in Orem and Provo, Utah. She is currently living in Provo, Utah, with her family.

101 Things to Do with a Potato $5.99 One potato, two potato, three potato-four! Introducing the next book in our thriving 101 series, 101 Things to do With a Potato. Each year, the average American consumes close to 140 pounds of potatoes. With that in mind, nothing seems better than a cookbook featuring one of America’s major food staples-the potato! “Mrs. 101″ Stephanie Ashcraft has ingeniously created simple recipes that take potatoes to a whole new level. Try a Breakfast Burrito in the morning, sample the Sausage Corn Chowder for lunch, have the Italian Potato Chips as a mid-afternoon snack, for dinner try the Potato Crust Pizza, and then savor the Sweet Potato Cheesecake for dessert!Stephanie Ashcraft, author of the New York Times best-selling 101 Things to do With a Cake Mix, is a full-time mom who has created and collected recipes for years. She also teaches a monthly cooking class for Macey’s Little Cooking Theater in Orem and Provo, Utah. She is currently living in Provo, Utah, with her family.

12 Best Foods Cookbook: Over 200 Delicious Recipes Featuring the 12 Healthiest Foods $23.95 From an award-winning food writer and chef-the breakthrough cookbook that identifies 12 micronutrient-rich foods that can help protect you against major disease and shows you how to turn them into mouthwatering dishes.A diet rich in nutrients, including protein, carbohydrates, fat, fiber, and vitamins, is not enough for our health. For optimum protection against heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and other chronic diseases, we also need an abundance of micronutrients. How to make sure we get enough of these vital micronutrients-and how to prepare them easily and deliciously-is what Dana Jacobi shows us in 12 Best Foods Cookbook.After identifying the 12 foods containing the most potent micronutrients-broccoli, black beans, tomatoes, salmon, soy, sweet potatoes, oats, onions, blueberries, walnuts, spinach, and chocolate-Jacobi provides over 200 fabulous, remarkably varied recipes starring these ingredients. From appetizers and sandwiches to sides and smoothies, from Salmon and Creamed Corn Chowder to a stir-fry of Asparagus, Red Pepper and Curried Tofu, the recipes in this book prove that a diet rich in all the micronutrients science has shown to be indispensable to our well-being can be a parade of delectable dishes. And, since chocolate is the most powerful antioxidant food, The Ultimate Bittersweet Brownies is one of the sweet treats that will satisfy the yearnings of health-conscious eaters and passionate chocoholics alike.

3-ingredient Slow Cooker Comfort Foods $148.49 Cooking comfort-food favorites could not be easier!Do the words slow cooker conjure up visions of endless boring brown dishes? Let acclaimed chef Robert Hildebrand show you how to take your slow-cooker cuisine to the next level-while focusing on favorite comfort foods you never thought you could make in a slow cooker. And best of all, you can make these delicious recipes with just three ingredients! Bob Hildebrand knows the pros – secrets for coaxing fantastic flavor out of slow-cooked food, and he’s ready to share. Try his Fresh Tomato Soup, Chicken Fricassee, Tiny Butter Noodles, Fresh Corn and Tomato Stew, Smothered Chicken, Herbed Pork Roast, Fluffy Buttermilk Mashed Potatoes, Peachy Barbecued Spareribs, Bourbon-Laced Tipsy Beef, Wilted Greens with Bacon Dressing, Sweet Potatoes with Onions and Peppers, Easy Peach Cobbler, Warm Honey Gingerbread, Mulled Cider – even comforting toppings like Peppery Milk Gravy and Farmstand Peach Jam. From appetizers and soups to delicious desserts, you will find 200 fantastic recipes you can make and forget while they cook themselves.

50 Best Mashed Potatoes $10.41 New – Mashed potatoes move to the center of the plate in this delectable collection of 50 recipes that features everything from old-fashioned favorites to contemporary classics.

50 Best Mashed Potatoes $5.73 New – Mashed potatoes move to the center of the plate in this delectable collection of 50 recipes that features everything from old-fashioned favorites to contemporary classics.

50 Chowders $12.99 When most of us think of chowder, New England-style fish or clam chowder is what comes to mind, but they are only two of the dozens of home-style chowders you can make from this book. Once you discover the diversity of ingredients you can cook into a chowder and see the scope of styles and colors open to you, you will wonder how we ever came to think there were only one or two chowders in the world. Authentic chowder is characterized by generous chunks of local seasonal ingredients served in a moderate amount of broth. Another basic characteristic of chowder is its ease of preparation — even chowders that take more than an hour to make don’t require anything more than keeping an eye on the pot. A big pot of chowder is perfect for a large gathering of family and friends, and because chowder truly is best when made ahead, you’ll have plenty of time to enjoy your company. 50 Chowders is the first hardcover cookbook to explore the many interpretations of chowders. On the familiar side, you will find a recipe for Corn Chowder explained with the kind of detail that ensures a sweet, mellow broth, succulent chunks of potatoes, and fresh golden kernels of corn. On the exotic side, there is a recipe for San Francisco Crab Meatball Chowder, an exciting dish whose deep and robust flavors make it really quite special. Here are a few of the more than fifty other chowders you will find: Shaker Fresh Cranberry Bean Chowder, Nova Scotia Lobster Chowder, Nantucket Veal Chowder, Pacific Northwest Salmon Chowder, and nine different clam chowders. Among this book’s unique features: A chapter of chowder companion dishes, from Parker House Rolls to Buttermilk Biscuits; more than fifty illustrations of important cooking techniques and chowder ingredients; cook’s notes for each recipe, giving possible substitutions, required equipment, and serving suggestions; a list of reliable mail-order suppliers of seafood and other chowder ingredients.

50 Chowders: One Pot Meals – Clam, Corn and Beyond $30 When most of us think of chowder, New England-style fish or clam chowder is what comes to mind, but they are only two of the dozens of home-style chowders you can make from this book. Once you discover the diversity of ingredients you can cook into a chowder and see the scope of styles and colors open to you, you will wonder how we ever came to think there were only one or two chowders in the world. Authentic chowder is characterized by generous chunks of local seasonal ingredients served in a moderate amount of broth. Another basic characteristic of chowder is its ease of preparation — even chowders that take more than an hour to make don’t require anything more than keeping an eye on the pot. A big pot of chowder is perfect for a large gathering of family and friends, and because chowder truly is best when made ahead, you’ll have plenty of time to enjoy your company. 50 Chowders is the first hardcover cookbook to explore the many interpretations of chowders. On the familiar side, you will find a recipe for Corn Chowder explained with the kind of detail that ensures a sweet, mellow broth, succulent chunks of potatoes, and fresh golden kernels of corn. On the exotic side, there is a recipe for San Francisco Crab “Meatball” Chowder, an exciting dish whose deep and robust flavors make it really quite special. Here are a few of the more than fifty other chowders you will find: Shaker Fresh Cranberry Bean Chowder, Nova Scotia Lobster Chowder, Nantucket Veal Chowder, Pacific Northwest Salmon Chowder, and nine different clam chowders. Among this book’s unique features: A chapter of chowder companion dishes, from Parker House Rolls to Buttermilk Biscuits; more than fifty illustrations of important cooking techniques and chowder ingredients; cook’s notes for each recipe, giving possible substitutions, required equipment, and serving suggestions; a list of reliable mail-order suppliers of seafood and other chowder ingredients. Jasper

A Farmer’s Year $14.91 A companion volume to the best-selling ‘Faith Like Potatoes’, offering reflections about the Christian path of discipleship. These are laced with striking stories and illustrations drawn from Angus’s farming career, where life is a daily struggle against the elements, and is always unpredictable.

A Farmer’s Year $14.99 A companion volume to the best-selling ‘Faith Like Potatoes’, offering reflections about the Christian path of discipleship. These are laced with striking stories and illustrations drawn from Angus’s farming career, where life is a daily struggle against the elements, and is always unpredictable.

A Feast of Words $40 A Feast of Words serves up twenty-five classic novels and stories, including Emma by Jane Austen and Royal Beatings by Alice Munro. Anna Shapiro provides incisive and entertaining commentary on the food scenes in the works and original recipes that feed the fancy as well as the palate. Over tea in Doris Lessing’s A Good Neighbour a widow discovers love for the first time. To accompany the author’s lively text, you’ll find recipes for Honey and Orange Bread, Apple and Cheese Bread, and Sesame Loaf, while learning how to brew a perfect pot of tea. A wilder kind of love is made over stew in James Cain’s Serenade. You’ll find out that all of Tolstoy’s huge novel of adultery, Anna Karenina, is compacted in one lunch scene: Rolls sometimes smell so good that you can’t resist them! To accompany the scene, you’ll find a truly elemental recipe for borscht. Shapiro, a novelist, finds that looking at books from the perspective of food yields insights and dishes as lively as they are rich. Personal as well as funny, the commentary will not only tell you everything you ever wanted to know about asparagus but also takes into account the food politics of, say, A Little Princess. A Feast of Words provides inspired menus for dinner parties and family meals, lovers’ tete-atetes and homey lunches. Using it, you can regale guests with stories and food: pasta with lobster sauce, crunchy roast potatoes, the best chocolate mousse, cafe con leche, in a cookbook that is a work of art and a joy to read.