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Saturday, February 9, 2019

The Humble Potato

Today I want to share with you what I sometimes do with leftover baked potatoes and that is make hash browns with them. Sometimes I even make extra baked potatoes just so we can make hash browns with them. 

You'll need a box grater like mine pictured below to make these or even a flat grater will work. 


All you need to do is take each potato and scrap it across your grater and it will make the best hash browns as they are already soft from being baked. 


Place them on a baking sheet and bake them in your oven at 350 degrees for 30 minutes or until they are as crisp as you would like them. No oil is needed for these. 

One of those new air fryer appliances would make these taste good too, but is not necessary. Your oven will make them just as crispy. 

Here is the finished product. These are so simple and easy to make and delicious and frugal to boot. 




Potatoes are the perfect tightwad food. Just last week I was able to buy a five pound bag for $1.50 making them a very affordable dinner choice. 

Amy Dacyczyn wrote about feeding her family only baked potatoes for dinner and I can say that we do that regularly in our home. 

Baked Potato Bar
Other ways we enjoy potatoes in our home include:

Home Fries

Scalloped Potatoes

Potatoes Au Gratin

Potato Pancakes

French Fries 

Mashed Potatoes

Potato Salad

Hash Brown Potatoes

Potato Soup

What are some ways you enjoy potatoes in your home?

Belinda
~ Living within our Means ~

20 comments:

  1. Potatoes are a wonderful addition to a meal, and I find any version leftover for lunches very satisfying. I've gotten more creative using them up with bits of other leftovers.

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  2. Potato, eggs, and greens skillet for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. Potatoes and peppers or potatoes and hotdog dinner from ClarasC kitchen channel!

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  3. Potatoes were always in my mother's kitchen. I suppose my favorites were mashed, baked with carrots and onions along side a pot roast in an oven, or potato salad. Yukon Golds are my favorite.

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    1. Yukon Gold are my favorite too, Anna. The melt just like butter. LOL

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  4. Hi Belinda, I love the title of this post. Yes a potato is a humble, basic, ordinary vegetable, yet so very versatile. Last night I made stir fry veggies (frozen) with chicken for my supper, using up a bottle of teriyaki sauce. I had a couple of potatoes that needed to be used asap, so I chopped them and boiled until tender. After draining, I put them in the skillet I had used for the stir fry. I sauteed the potatoes to evaporate the moisture on them and give them a bit of color. They then became the base for my stir fry supper. I think it was better than using rice.

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    1. Thank you, Frances. That was a great idea to use yours up for the base of your stir fry. I'd say that was a delicious dinner.

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  5. Oooh, potatoes. I love potatoes. They are a staple around here. We like them mashed, with sour cream and butter, or roasted, with olive oil and my homemade onion soup mix on them. Baked potato soup is one of the few soups I actually enjoy. I use the allrecipes recipe, but start with raw potatoes, and make it in the slow cooker. But, my very favorite way to have a potato is baked, with butter and sour cream, and sometimes salsa if I'm feeling spicy! When I worked, I would bake extra potatoes on Sunday, and take the leftovers to work, where I could heat them up in a microwave for lunch. (And leftover sweet potatoes this way were a special treat.)

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    1. You are making me very hungry, Meg. LOL I love baked potatoes as much as you do and often take them for lunches too. :)

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  6. I love potatoes and seeing that I live in Idaho that is great.Did you know that Idaho really didn't suffer hunger during the great depression? They had potatoes and a sugar factory every 15 miles down major population areas. So sugar was not even rationed.

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    1. Wow, I did not know that, Kim. How neat. I learned something new today. My grandparents lived thru the Great Depression. They gardened and canned their whole lives because of that.

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  7. I never thought of making hash browns this way Belinda. Not long ago I shredded up some raw potatoes to make shredded hash browns. Total fail. The raw potatoes were SO watery - I squeezed them a lot and then fried them in some oil & butter and they turned out just so so.
    I'm going to definitely try your way.
    Thanks for posting this method.

    Debra

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    1. You're welcome, Debra. I too have done the raw method and found them too heavy. I hope you try this method and see if you like it. :)

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  8. My favorite is potato au gratin. Or I saute them with onions.
    I also bought a 5lb bag of Idaho potatoes today. I haven't made hash browns at home. I think I'll bake several potatoes and make hash browns this week.
    Thanks for the idea, Belinda. 😊

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    1. You're welcome, Nil. I like potato au gratin too as they are just so good. Enjoy your hash browns. :)

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  9. When my husband used to travel half time for work, and I had small kids at home, we'd have diced potatoes scrambled with veggies & eggs & cheese at least a couple of times/week for dinner. Now days, we often use them to make homemade "chips" (my husband grills them while he's making kebabs) or we use them as the base to a Persian rice dish that he makes. I love potatoes!

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    1. I love potatoes too and just love the taste of them. I'll even eat them plain. :)

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    1. Onions would be terrific in these, Arlene. :)

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