VERY, VERY OT Potatoes!!!

Leslie, put in the sweet potato and get readyfor the happy surprise of your day. Any place you can put regular potato you can put sweet potato. The difference is subtle and wonderful.

Sunny

Leslie, My vote is the make the mashed potatoes and put the potato-less stew over it like a gravy and eat it that way.

~Tricia~

That was going to be my vote too Tricia. I just made something with sweet potatoes last week that didn't work out very well for us.

Certainly you can stir in some instant potato flakes! As to the sweet potato, I would NOT put it into the stew. If you feel as though you need a little "extra" for dinner, cook the sweet potato separately and use it as a side dish.

Of course, if you happen to have a can of pie filling on hand, you can make a "galatte" (I don't know the proper French spelling -- sorry!) to serve for dessert after the dishes are done. All you do is make up pie crust for a single crust pie, roll it out, slip it into a pie pan, spoon the fruit from the can of pie filling into the middle of the crust (leaving as much crust as possible fruit-free), and dot it with butter. Now, begin folding the extra pie crust dough toward the center, overlapping around the sides. You will probably have a "hole" in the middle of the crust, and that's good as a steam vent. Bake it as you would any fruit pie. A galatte is a rural French pie, and probably a peasant dish -- everybody gets a little piece of heaven, and you don't have to worry about making a beautiful top crust or worry about edges burning. Most cans of fruit pie filling aren't really enough for a pie, but you only need one for a galatte! One suggestion I have is to spoon out at least half of the goo from the fruit before you put it in the crust -- makes less goo, less mess, and a better fruit flavor. Besides, the goo is almost pure sugar, and who needs that?!? By the way, a galatte made with a single pie crust and one can of pie filling will feed 4 people VERY generously, and 6 people very nicely. I often throw together a galatte with a can of cherry pie filling, and people think I'm a genius.

I'd go for egg noodles or dumplings for a potato substitute. Sort of a stew-y stroganoff or beef stew and dumplings. That sounds pretty comfortable to me.

I wouldn't be able to stand it. I'd have to go get a tater.

Course, I don't care if my car is dirty.

Cindy

Make your stew sans potatos, then mix up some of the instant potatos and spread them over the top. Dot with butter or sprinkle with cheese and slide it on into the oven just to brown the taters. Good excuse to turn on the oven on a cold day.(G)

Of course if the stew is thin, then you want to stir in some of the instant potatos to thicken it instead. If you wind up using fewer roots in than you imagined, it sometimes happens that it comes out too thin.

NightMist

Yeah...noodles would work too! What time is supper? Maybe you could invite someone over if they would bring a potato or two!

All this is making me hungry!

Corn bread an' pintos is a fine meal. I'll come to your house for a comfort meal any day. Debra in VA See my quilts at:

Leave out the taters. Taters are just a starch. you can replace them with noodles or rice. I vote noodles, preferably elbows or shells. Veggies to add--corn, black eyed peas, lima beans, green beans or shelly beans, green peas, and more carrots. I love carrots. Debra in VA See my quilts at:

Oh, lima beans??? NASTY!!! :-P

Leslie & The Furbabies >

Never said you had to use 'em, just that they could be used. I wouldn't eat your stew either 'cause I firmly believe celery is evil. Of course we could both toss out our stews and have some wonderful home made Mac & Cheese instead. Debra in VA See my quilts at:

Kidney beans and/or black olive slices are better Polly...really...

~T~

mmmmmmmmm, nice choices, Tricia. i might also be persuaded to add some finely chopped celery at the last minute so as not to cook it. i like the crunch. hmmm, maybe green pepper would work better, ok, red and green just for the colour factor. i'm the biggest fan of olives, black or gree and stuffed with pimento or cloves of garlic. ok, i'm a huge fan of garlic and sweet chili sauce too. for me i figure i'm not gonna get any fatter if i have enough of the tastebud BOING each day and/or some crunchy stuff in the meals...i love celery and raisin with some kind of dressing on it. i love nuts in food. dh has started adding a bit of dried fig in anything stewy with beef mostly. i read/heard somewhere that the figs help with digestion or absorbtion of something in the meal. i also read somewhere that cinnamon helps with digestion/bodys-use of sugar so anything with sugar in it gets cinammon here, even coffee, oops not tea, ewwwwwww. i figure one way or another if i can adhere to enough of those bits of health/nutrition info i might stave off the next round of tyre. ok ok, so i live in hope. its all i got at this point, hope, lol. the more i think about it as i type, seems to me if i treat food like picking fabrics for quilts i should be ok. focus food, various textures and colours in the side dishes, yup, thats just what i'll do. :)) thanks for making me think about it like that, Trish. :) j.

"Tricia in Petoskey" wrote... Kidney beans and/or black olive slices are better Polly...really... ~T~

"Polly Esther" wrote:

"Leslie & The Furbabies in MO." wrote: Dear silly young Hoover rushed in and

LOL I'd have loved to have seen his face Leslie.

My vote would have been for suet dumplings baked on the top of the stew. Pop stew in oven prove dish. Make dumplings and roll into flatish balls and pop on top, then bake without lid. Yummy crispy dumpling stew. With a box of gaviscon for afters. I hope you enjoyed your 'Mess' after all.

Elly

not really answering your question but I've been told that potatoes are an excellent 'treatment' for migraine headaches. and no, I don't mean mash em and spread em on your forehead. (:

Musicmaker

Or chunks of ham and then I won't have to make anything else but a salad?

Butterfly (Needing an easy out tonight--I'M QUILTING--the same two rows that I was LAST week)