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Category: Recipes

Idaho® Potato Picnic Salads

With warmer weather just around the corner, do you have any tips for picnic potato salads?
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Serving Idaho Potatoes at a Charity Event

Do you have any suggestions for serving potatoes at our local charity events?
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How to Make a Great Baked Potato at Home

How do you make a baked potato at home that tastes as well as those you get from your favorite restaurant? My wife and I have tried everything…bake time, oven temp, size of potato etc. They still suck big time! What are we doing wrong?
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Q&A: Center of the Plate Potatoes

I noticed that the CIA (Culinary Institute of America) in St. Helena recently held a nutrition conference called Produce First!  Any thoughts on how I can make potatoes more center of the plate?
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Idaho Potato Production

With all this talk about buying local, I got to wondering where my potatoes come from.  Since I am from back East I know Maine used to be the source I saw most often, but now it seems as if a lot of the bags in the store have a “Grown in Idaho” seal on them.  When did Idaho start outselling Maine?
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Skin-On Idaho Potato Recipes

The potato skin is supposed to have more nutrients than the flesh.  Are there any recipes where I currently peel the potatoes where I could skip that step?
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Saving Money While Dining Out

My family still likes to go out for dinner, any suggestions on how we can curb some of our spending but still enjoy a night out?
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Casserole Recipes for the Cost-Conscious

Our family is really on a budget with this economy. Do you have any casserole suggestions?
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Q&A: Who Invented Hash Browns?

Who invented hash browns? I have a theory…When my wife and I have steak and cook too many baked potatoes, she refrigerates them overnight, grates them the next morning, and makes very, very good hash browns.   Nothing added–just the old baked potatoes fried in a cast iron pan.  I heard my late father speak of staying in hotels (he was born in 1902) and the fabulous breakfasts they would have.  I’ve wondered for years if during rough times, the big hotels possibly saved the leftover baked potatoes from the night before and made hash browns out of them like she and I do now.  I really don’t recall if someone suggested this to me, if I sublimely recall the old folks mentioning it, or if I dreamed it up.  I doubt that I will run into anyone who worked in an old hotel in my neighborhood, but will ask any old timers I might run into, and if you know any older hoteliers, please ask them.
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Q&A: Cost Conscious Wedding Reception

I have a friend who needs some ideas on a cost conscious wedding reception, any potato ideas?
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