By Nick • March 13, 2010
There’s an old dish called “Bird’s Nest” which is basically eggs fried inside of toast. So you just cut a hole in a piece of bread, toss it in a pan, and then add the egg to the center of it. The egg fries while the toast cooks. It’s a great dish and kids really [...]
Posted in breakfast, Economical, Failure, spicy | Tagged birds nest, boiled egg, boiled eggs, breakfast foods, cooking, egg, food and drink, poached egg, poaching, potatoes, soft boiled eggs
By Nick • February 10, 2010
There are a few things you should know before you get too far into this post. First, I’m pretty bad at the scientific method. In fact, I don’t exactly even know what it is. I’m not a scientist and have never claimed to be one. So when I try to “test” something, I’m sure my [...]
Posted in appetizers, baking, Economical, Failure | Tagged baked fries, fries, how to bake fries, potatoes, sweet potatoes
By Nick • December 23, 2009
I’ve had a nagging idea in the back of my mind for awhile now about making homemade tots. I’ve only written about the frozen variety once before when I wrote about one of Betsy’s favorite meals: Dogs and Tots. I think that this meal may be part of the reason she decided it would be [...]
Posted in appetizers, good food, Junk Food Junkies, Stuffing Stuff, TIWSIMRIIHAR | Tagged american cuisine, appetizers, fast food, food and drink, homemade tater tots, how to make tater tots, mashed potato, mashed potatoes, potato, potato processing, potatoes, russet potatoes, tater tot, tater tots, tot, widths
By Nick • September 10, 2009
I really struggled with what to make when a Baked Dip won the poll last week. I know a few very good baked dips, but I feel like a lot of people kind of know all of the same baked dips. I wanted to try something a bit new.
I had some potatoes left over from [...]
Posted in appetizers, Easy Stuff | Tagged appetizers, bacon, baked dip, cream cheese, dip, garlic, potatoes, scallions
By Nick • September 5, 2009
If there’s one ingredient you can never have too many recipes for in the summer it has to be zucchini. I remember as a kid that my Dad used to grow these epic zucchini in our garden and we would not only eat zucchini for every meal, but beg people to take some off our [...]
Posted in breakfast, Economical | Tagged pancakes, potatoes, yogurt, zucchini, zucchini pancakes
By Nick • June 27, 2009
There are some meals that were made to be eaten after a night out. This is most definitely one of them. In fact, the first time that I made this dish to post on Macheesmo, the night before was such a long night out on the town that all of the photos were horrible and [...]
Posted in breakfast, pork | Tagged bacon, bacon hash, breakfast, brunch, cubing potatoes, how to make hash, potatoes
