Potatoes!!!!!!!

About once a month, my husband and I will eat BBQ Chicken with a potato and broccoli.  Recipes for all will be coming.  This first post I wanted to share one of two ways I like to make the potatoes for this meal.  The first recipe is from The Pioneer Woman, Ree Drummond.  She calls them Crash Hot Potatoes.  They are easy and I LOVE them!

Crash Hot Potatoes

12 whole New Potatoes (or Other Small Round Potatoes)

3 Tablespoons Olive Oil

Kosher Salt To Taste

Black Pepper To Taste

Rosemary (or Other Herbs Of Choice) To Taste - optional

Cheese - optional (my favorite is Bleu Cheese)

Bring a pot of salted water to a boil. Add in as many potatoes as you wish to make and cook them until they are fork-tender.

On a sheet pan, generously drizzle olive oil. Place tender potatoes on the cookie sheet leaving plenty of room between each potato.

With a potato masher, gently press down each potato until it slightly mashes, rotate the potato masher 90 degrees and mash again. Brush the tops of each crushed potato generously with more olive oil.

Sprinkle potatoes with kosher salt, fresh ground black pepper and fresh chopped rosemary (or chives or thyme or whatever herb you have available.) and cheese.

Bake in a 450 degree oven for 20-25 minutes until golden brown.

Faux Pancakes

I have discovered a recipe for the most amazing pancakes in the world!!!!!!!!!  I'm so excited I am pretty certain that I have spent a good chunk of time each day for the past week thinking about how awesome these Pancakes are!  Why are they awesome, you ask?  Well, because of the ingredients, I say!  :)  It's not that these are the best tasting, fluffiest, prettiest pancakes in the world...it's because they have no white flour and no white sugar in them in addition to having no need for a sugary syrup on top of them, with a hefty chunk of butter.  Maybe you like all of that stuff, but when it comes to a daily breakfast, I'm looking for something as healthy as these pancakes are.  So to you, my beloved blog readers, I present:

Faux Pancakes

Ingredients:

1 Banana

2 Eggs

Optional ingredients:

1 Strawberry

1 tsp Vanilla

Cinnamon

Oats

Shredded Apple

Nuts

Frozen Berries

etc...use your imagination

Puree Bananas with Eggs in a blender.  Cook like a regular pancake.  Serve.  

Word of Caution:  It is very easy to turn this into an ugly mess of scrambled eggs as they are very delicate, especially when it comes to flipping them.  I found that the best cooking method is to cook them on the lowest possible setting and then cover them (same method I use for grilled cheese sandwiches).  

Now tell me that this does not blow your mind!

:) Enjoy