US Potato Board Giveaway – Lose Weight, Not Potatoes!

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I love potatoes. I love them baked, mashed, roasted, french fried, au gratined, hash browned, and home fried.  By itself, the potato is an amazing food. One medium-size potato (5.3 ounces) has just 110 calories, provides 45% of your daily value of vitamin C, has more potassium than a banana, is fat free, and costs [Read On]

My mashed potato disaster

Our Thanksgiving Turkey In 2006, Chris and I hosted members of both of our families for Thanksgiving dinner. Chris used our Betty Crocker cookbook to come up with a delicious herb rub for the turkey, which turned out beautifully, as you can see from the photo, and tasted delicious. We had crescent rolls, and stuffing, [Read On]

Do I take shortcuts? Um YEAH, I have three kids!

For this weekend’s Blog Blast, Parent Bloggers Network teamed up with Ore Ida to promote their new Steam ‘N Mash potatoes. If you haven’t tried them yet, I bought some the second I saw them in the freezer case at the grocery store. It’s a bag of already peeled and cubed potatoes that steam in [Read On]