Crispy Garlic Smashed Potatoes

January 21, 2018 by Nettie 5 Comments

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These crispy, garlicky, easy-to-make smashed potatoes will make repeat appearances at your dinner table for and everyday meals and special occasions.

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Start off by rinsing off potatoes in a colander.

Add potatoes and salt to a medium saucepan covered in water.

Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer until potatoes are tender about 20 minutes.

Drain potatoes, add olive oil and toss gently to cover.

Transfer potatoes to a baking sheet lined with aluminum foil.

Using a heavy mug, smash potatoes to a 1/2-inch thickness.

Bake for 20 minutes.

Add 20 garlic cloves.

Flip over potatoes, bake for another 20 minutes.

Add salt, pepper, chives and 2 tablespoons Nakano Roasted Garlic Vinegar to the smashed potatoes.

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Ling Ling Yakitori Chicken Fried Rice & Coupon

October 11, 2017 by Nettie 5 Comments

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Ling Ling Yakatori Chicken Fried Rice delivers superior flavor for an easy weeknight meal.

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Tortellini Caprese Salad #CookoutWeek

June 28, 2016 by Nettie 8 Comments

Tortellini Caprese Salad: Pesto Tortellini Pasta Salad with tomatoes, Mozzarella and fresh basil tossed in a Vinaigrette! This will be a hit at your next picnic or potluck!

Since the weather has been super warm out, we are grilling and BBQ’ing every weekend. I am so crazy about Caprese pasta salad, I found the Pesto Tortellini family pack and thought that a Caprese Pasta Salad would be wonderful with it. The flavors were so delicious! Everybody loved it, I’ll double the recipe next time! It disappeared quickly!…

The 10 Best Homemade Biscuits You’ll Ever Try

June 2, 2016 by Nettie 2 Comments

Biscuits are such a comfort food…can any food remind us quite so much of home? They’re perfect any way you want them: served with your egg breakfast, with a delicious bowl of soup, or smothered with butter and jam. These fat, flaky mounds are just begging to be drowned in gravy, jam, lemon curd, or honey! Hungry for something heavier? They are wonderful layered with ham and cheese or smothered in sausage gravy alongside eggs and grits. The options are endless! Scroll down and don’t miss a single one of these biscuit recipes!

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This post originally aired on Parade, Community Table. Written by Nettie Moore.

Nettie Moore is the cook, baker, photographer and designer behind Moore or Less Cooking Food Blog. Nettie is a self-trained cook and baker. She loves creating easy recipes that don’t call for a lot of unknown ingredients. Nettie’s Blueberry Skillet Cake has been featured in Taste Of Home Magazine and her Peach Raspberry Pie has won awards! She was born and raised in Southern California and now calls New England her home, where she lives with her husband and two children. Follow her on her blog Moore Or Less Cooking,Facebook, and Pinterest.

Cheesy Rice

May 7, 2016 by Nettie 2 Comments

Baked cheesy rice with three types of cheese and moist brown rice makes a perfect side dish.

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Sweet Corn Spoonbread

January 2, 2016 by Nettie 7 Comments

When we lived in New Jersey, our dear friend and neighbor would make us Corn Souffle for Christmas Eve. I have been looking for her recipe for years and finally found it. It’s also called Sweet Corn Spoonbread in the south. Being from the west coast, I just know that it tastes amazing!

If you love cornbread, you are going to go bonkers over this Easy Sweet Corn Spoonbread! I made it for Christmas Eve supper and when I tasted it, I wanted it all to myself! Too bad my family smelled it and they all wanted to know what I was cooking. It was gone in a matter of minutes! I heard a lot of “mmmmmmm so delicious Mom”! It’s super easy to make and it is now my favorite side dish. Although I could eat it just as my main meal! It’s like a corn souffle but so much better!

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The 12 Best Potato Side Dishes

July 17, 2015 by Nettie 17 Comments

I have a double whammy, hubs is Irish and loves a bargain! So when 70 pounds of potatoes go on sale for $7.00, he can’t resist buying a couple bags. Even with hundreds of potatoes growing in my garden! Yes he is a meat and potato kind of guy. Potatoes go with everything!

So I love coming up with new potato recipes. Potato salad, twice baked potatoes, Hasselback potatoes, potato au gratin, smashed potatoes, mashed potatoes, baked potatoes….you get the idea! You say potato, I say potato, let’s have a potato party!!

Scroll down to view the BEST Potato Side Dishes! Pure comfort food, your family and guests will be going back for seconds or Threeconds…is that even a word? It will be when you serve these delicious potato sides!

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Broccoli Salad

July 5, 2015 by Nettie 20 Comments

This is my favorite summer side salad, I am actually very happy to have it as a meal! It is so delicious with fresh picked Broccoli, crispy Hardwood Bacon, Crispy Gala Apples, Chopped Hazelnuts, Slivered Almonds, Cabot White Sharp Cheddar Cheese, Zippy Red Onion and Dried Cranberries.

It’s like a Cobb salad but instead of lettuce, broccoli is the main star.

Our friend Jenny picked this HUGE Broccoli from her Veggie Garden and left it on our kitchen table! Lucky me, so immediately I thought of making a delicious salad with it! Thank you Jenny and Carol!!

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Baking Powder Drop Biscuits

November 10, 2014 by Nettie 3 Comments

Yum

If you need a biscuit in a snap, these are my go to recipe, I have been making them for many years and they are difficult to mess up! No kneading or rolling, just drop the dough by the spoonful into a greased or buttered pan.

When I prepare a Slow Roasted Pot Roast or Soup or Stew, hubs requests my Baking Powder Drop Biscuits to accompany them. They are light and fluffy and easy to whip it together. Light-gold and crusty outside, moist and fine-textured inside. Serve with butter!

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Baking Powder Drop Biscuits

Author: Moore or Less Cooking

Recipe type: Fluffy Drop Biscuits

Cuisine: American

Prep time: 10 mins

Cook time: 14 mins

Total time: 24 mins

Serves: 12 biscuits

The most delicious fluffy drop biscuits.

Ingredients

3 cups all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons sugar
2½ teaspoons baking powder
½ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
½ cup vegetable shortening
1 cup of cold buttermilk
¼ cup melted butter

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 450 degrees. In a medium bowl, combine the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Cut in the shortening with a fork or use your hands until it looks like cornmeal. Add the milk, a little at a time, stirring constantly until well mixed.
Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface. Knead lightly two or three times. Roll out the dough with a floured rolling pin to ½-inch thickness. Cut with a 2-inch cutter.
Place the biscuits in a greased iron skillet. Gently press down top of biscuits. Brush the biscuits with half the melted butter. Bake for 14 minutes or until golden brown. Brush the hot biscuits with the remaining butter.

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Stuffed Squash Blossoms

July 16, 2014 by Nettie 16 Comments

I love everything about summer, especially seeing what is growing my vegetable garden. My kale, basil, and tomatoes are explosive. We have had huge thunder showers, so I haven’t had to water much lately. My zucchini and squash blossoms are just coming out.

When my neighbor told me that he has lots of butternut squash blossoms and zucchini blossoms and would I like some, I couldn’t get my sandals on fast enough!

I decided to stuff them with Mozzarella, Parmesan Reggiano and Basil. You can actually stuff blossoms with any kind of cheese that you like, ricotta, goat, gruyere, or with meat or rice. I have had them many ways, all so delicious.

For 7 Blossoms, I grated about 1 cup of Mozzarella Cheese and added about a 1/4 cup of Parmesan Reggiano Cheese, I ripped up freshly picked basil leaves and stuffed the blossoms.

Twist the ends closed and try to pinch the blossoms closed so that the cheese doesn’t fall out.

Dip stuffed blossoms in flour, then in egg, then again in flour

Fill skillet pan with about an inch of vegetable oil, carefully place stuffed blossoms in pan on medium high heat, saute until golden brown.

These are a delicious summer treat, a perfect appetizer with a cold glass of Chardonnay!

Stuffed Squash Blossoms

Ingredients:

12 squash blossoms, stamen removed
8 oz mozzarella, grated
1/4 cup Parmesan Reggiano, grated
3 large basil leaves
1 cup flour
2 eggs
Vegetable oil
1 tablespoons sea salt plus more for garnishing
1/2 tablespoon pepper

Preparation:
Wash squash blossoms. Take the stamen out from inside the blossom. Pat dry. In a small bowl, combine Mozzarella , Parmesan, and basil. Carefully fill the blossoms with the cheese mixture. Twist the top of the blossoms to close off, repeat with remaining blossoms.

Place the flour in a shallow bowl and add the pepper and salt, mix. Beat the eggs in a bowl and place next to the flour. Cover the squash blossoms in flour mixture, then in the egg wash and back in the flour, until very well coated. Repeat with remaining blossoms.

Pour oil into a rimmed frying pan, filling about 2-3 inches. Heat until hot but not smoking, about 350-380 degrees. Carefully fry blossoms in batches, until a nice golden brown color. Serve warm.

Recipe adapted from Epicurean Mom

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June Carter Cash’s Banana Drop BiscuitsTheir slight sweetness makes them taste a lot like drop scones, so of course they’re good with butter or jam!Recipe ChinDeep

Jackie Garvin’s Garlic Cheese BiscuitsLight, fluffy, and full of flavor. Recipe Cooking With Mary and Friends

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