This is really different. I kept hearing about sweet potato salad…and I was intrigued BUT I didn’t want to read a recipe to figure it out. I had a certain taste I was going for….
This was it. It is so different and so good!  It encompasses all the flavors you can imagine: tangy, sweet, sour, spicy….The flavors just sort of hit you in layers, one after another, ending with a smoky heat from the chipotle.

And then…the textures! tender, chewy, crisp, crunchy…. the dressing pulls everything together. Balsamic, brown sugar, chipotle and vanilla. Truly incredible.

I made a rolled beef roast the other day and it was so good.  There is something so down to  earth good about old fashioned, plain cooking.  We don’t seem to do it so much anymore, preferring to look to European, Asian, and Noveau cuisines for our special meals.  But set a platter of good roast, some roasted potatoes, buttermilk rolls, salad, and pie down in front of most Americans and they will lick the plate.
It is our roots. Someday maybe I will create a new trend in food and call it Noveau American Gothic.

I am not really sure why I started calling htis quiche recipe Alsatian, only that I did.  It isn’t at all a fancy thing; good stick to your ribs food really.  With having our own chickens, quiche is not only an easy meal, it is a cheap one.
The first time I ever tried quiche I ws 17.  I took my boyfriend’s mom, who I adored, out to shop at a local, upscale mall.  She was from Europe and had not been in the states too long.  We went to a restaurant that I thought she would like and as we …read more

 
Yes folks, it’s what you have been waiting for all month…the incredible..the colossal…the stupendous..the amazing…The Potato Ho Down.  Now, put a little starch in your life and check out these great recipes from the most notorious Potato Hos in the known world.
If the titillation is too much and you feel you simply must join in the frolic next month check out the official Potato Ho Rules.

 
So, honestly, I always run late for events but I do eventually get them done.  Tomorrow is the third Wednesday of the month and the date for the monthly exaltation of the humble, yet lovable, potato.  The Potato Ho Down.
Sonnets could be written.  Operas could be sung.  Why aren’t they, you ask?