Was gifted 50 lbs premium Idaho potatoes Help! LOL
 

Was gifted 50 lbs premium Idaho potatoes and I already had 15 lbs at home. We love potatoes but I will need to come up with some new dishes.

Give me your best potato dishes.

One dish I need to bring to a gathering with mostly guys to feed this Saturday. This could be full of goodies like cheese and sour cream.

The rest of the ptatoes will be consumed by my large family. Especially for my family, I am interested in some dishes that are not chuck full of sour cream and cheese.

The weather is warming up here, SoCal, so they will not keep as long outside of the frig as they would 1 or 2 months ago.

Oven roasted potatoes are always yummy! https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/22...sted-potatoes/

Love it thimblebug6000! This one would be great for the family and the kids will like it because it reminds them enough of French fries. Thank you.

I am already making baked potatoes to eat for today and a big container of potato salad chuck full of eggs for hubby to snack on. His favorite. I still have plenty of potatoes. More of your favorite recipes? LOL

This is an old recipe that is very good! Makes enough for 6 - German Potato Pie - Preheat oven to 350* F
3 eggs, well beaten.............6-8 large potatoes................1 cup hot milk.............6 TBSP butter............2 ½ tsp salt.........1/3 cup grated onion.....
Beat all ingredients except for potatoes. Grease an 8 x 12" pan. Peel and grate the potatoes as quickly as possible to avoid browning. Add grated potatoes to the egg mix and mix well. Pour into greased pan and bake at 350* F until set....approx 1 hour.


Here is a link that looks like the same recipe https://www.cooks.com/recipe/xf6vu10...otato-pie.html

That sounds very good and maybe could be used as a breakfast casserole? Thank you!

I know potato soup is delicious but I am holding back on that one because we just finnished a potato soup that I disguised as a clam chowder. I am sneaky that way. Great ideas. Haven't made scalloped potatoes for a long time so that one is a must and the twice baked potatoes sounds very good. Plan to make extra baked potatoes to use some for twice baked potatoes.

I'd look at making french fries and hash browns and freezing them.

Oh my, that's a lot of potatoes. We always have a big bowl of potato salad for family gatherings, doesn't matter the season or reason.

Have you ever heard of Funeral Potatoes? Usually made with frozen shredded or hash browns, I think you could do it by weight as well.

I call them Souper Potatoes, goes over better :)

One Largish Package Hash Browns (I think about 1.5-2.5 pounds)
1 can Cream of Potato Soup
1 can any other Cream soup, can be Chicken, Asparagus, whatever you like
1 16 oz sour cream
Optional:
1 stick butter
1 onion
or
shredded cheese (1-2 cups)
can also doctor up with bacon, canned jalapenos etc.

Spread potatoes (still frozen ok) in large rectangular baking dish
Chop onion and saute in butter, pour over potatoes
Spread soup mixes over potatoes, swirl a bit or add some milk (1/2-1 can) and pour it over
Back at 350 for about 60-90 minutes.

One of the reasons this is called Funeral Potatoes is it holds its heat forever and can be taken to potlucks and such.

Here's a larger non-soup version on my usual recipe site (cooks.com)

https://www.cooks.com/recipe/b76qk4t...-potatoes.html

I'd say that would be about 3-5 pounds of potatoes and great for your Saturday group.

Beef and pototoe dish with a self made gravy
 

I got the recipe long time ago and am not sure where it came from.

Take a round steak and cut into 1 inch cubes. roll in flour and brown in a little hot oil of your choice. Dump all the meat into a casserole dish, add salt and pepper to taste and some thyme to taste. I do about 1/4 teaspoon pepper a little more salt and a 1/4 teaspoon thyme to about 2 pounds of meat. Add a cup and a half of water, not quite enough to cover the meat completely and 2 tablespoons of flour sprinkled over the meat. Then cover with sliced peeled potatoes sliced about a 1/4 inch or less thick. I push the sliced potatoes down the sides of the casserole pan lining it. Sprinkle salt and pepper and pop it in a 350 oven for an hour or until the potatoes look done. Turn the oven up to brown the potatoes if you want them darker they tend to dry out so keep an eye on it. I go to about 400 for about 15 min. or less. The meat should be tender the flour and water should have made you a gravy like sauce. Sometimes I add some drained canned green beans but you could put in what you like. I onced used deer meat and it was great. My mom was surprised.

https://www.cooksinfo.com/amish-potato-haystack-recipe
https://therecipecritic.com/slow-coo...anch-potatoes/ (I double/triple this as needed)

Both of these recipes are hits with my family

Shepherd's pie? Browned ground beef and mixed vegetables (with or without gravy mixed in, we prefer without, just seasoned) with mashed potatoes on top, baked until potatoes are lightly browned.

I was just texting about that today with a friend. Could even make a double batch of mashed potatoes and eat mashed potatoes one day and then sheperds pie the next day.

If you don’t mind frying you could shred them and add a few more ingredients and make potato pancakes. Uses a lot of potatoes and are delish. There are a lot of recipes on line. I don’t even peel the potatoes anymore.

My family often request I make twice baked potatoes when we get together. Bake your potato as usual, slice in half lengthwise, scoop out potato leaving a bit of a rind on the potato half. I mix mine with sour cream and butter as my base,then you can add a variety of mixins, such broccoli ham and cheese, bacon and chive, or whatever you might fancy. Then refill the half of potato skin and bake again.

Another idea I've seen, bake, cut lengthwise, and scoop, leaving a healthy rind behind. Then make a chilli and fill the half of potato with chilli and top with cheese and bake. Serve with sour cream on the side.

DD made 10 lbs of potatoes at a time into either potato salad or scalloped potatoes for her 2 athletic sons. They’d help themselves when they got home. Great suggestions here & one more option is to check Pinterest for “Sheet pan meals” which are popular now and many include potatoes. Love potatoes but we don’t eat them much anymore due to type 2 diabetes. A fast meal is a baked potato topped with a heated can of Fiesta Chili soup.

Scalloped potatoes freeze great. I often buy the ones at Sam's Club (for lazy days) and throw them in the freezer. Just pull them out of freezer ahead of time to thaw before putting in the oven.

Au Gratin, Scalloped, baked, and.......potato salad.

One of my favorite potato dishes is Italian Sausage and Potato Bake. I don't have an actual recipe, as I tend to just wing it. Basically, I usually use a lb. of Italian Sausage cut into chunks about 1-2", a potato for each person plus one for the pan (more if the potatoes are small), 1 onion sliced, 1 bell pepper cut into bite sized pieces or into thinish slices like the onion. Spray a cookie sheet or other shallow pan to prevent sticking. Mix all the ingredients together and sprinkle with Italian seasoning and garlic powder. Sometimes I add extra rosemary.
Spread evenly in the pan and cover with foil. Bake for 40 minutes then remove foil and bake till browned. Stir when you remove the foil. I usually bake at 350-400, both work fine. I like mine extra brown so the 400 is good for that.
No need to add oil as the grease from the sausage will be all you need.
Often I will cut the vegetables ahead of time then toss it all together in just minutes and pop it in the oven to bake. I have also cut and frozen the onions and peppers in freezer plastic bags, and added them frozen when ready to make it. They thaw and cook just fine that way.

This is great served with Italian bread with butter and a side salad.

If you have a pressure canner, why not 'can' jars of potatoes for later use? That way they last for a few years if you don't need them. We peel and then cut into big chunks, then fill the jar and add salted water to the last 1/2" below the top. After canning we can store them and use them in recipes all winter. I love being able to open a jar of canned potatoes for a soup or stew, because they are already mostly cooked!

How about a good old fashioned "Shepherd's Pie"? It is one of my favorite casseroles.

If you have the freezer room you can freeze potatoes. When I had a bumper crop of them, I peeled and using a french fry cutter made a bunch of bags of french fries, partially fried, cooled and then bagged to the size for one meal to fit my family. Also, you might make some batches of potato soup and freeze it. If I don't can it I freeze it what comes from my garden.

I was raised in California, the corner next to Oregon and Nevada. It has the same climate as Idaho. My Dad raised about 40 acres of potatoes every year. My least favorite part was weeding them, but my favorite part was eating them. New peas and potatoes creamed was the best. New peas would come out of the garden about the time the potatoes were setting little tiny ones. Dad would have to sacrifice a couple of plants to check and bring in the little starts for Mom to cook in a medium cream sauce with the peas. I can taste it now.

I think you can freeze things like hash browns and french fries, but if our harvested potatoes would freeze in the cellar, they would spoil and turn to mush. Canning any you can't eat is best. Marcia

One of my favourites is this recipe ....
https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/...shed-potatoes/
While they say to make ahead and keep in frig ... you can also keep it for long periods in the freezer.

Before Christmas each year, I make potatoes. Lots of them! Using this recipe.
Freeze them in casseroles, and then just bring out whichever size is needed whenever!! :)
It gets all the mess and fuss out of the way, and actually I quite enjoy the day.
The nice part ... potatoes are ready and I don't do any work for them.

I'd also highly suggest you spend time on that Taste of Home site.
When I want a recipe, I go there, as I have never had a poor result.
They have all been total winners!

Bon Appetit!!!

I buy large bags of potatoes but do not have a wonderful storage situation so we eat from the bag for a couple of weeks and I finish off the bag by making and freezing mash potatoes in two cup serving portions that stack in my freezer. If you have access to an Instant Pot pressure cooker they are really quick to prepare.

do you reheat them in the Instant Pot?

Are you still peeling potatoes? This recipe looks good for something different.

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/79...back-potatoes/

LOL Yes, still peeling but also eating with the skin on. I love all the ideas and recipes. Unfortunately the freezer is full with little kumquates so no freezing. Thank you to all that shared and posted both memories and recipes.

Hope that amidst all this, you are having some good ol' fashioned french fries, at some point!!!

There is nothing tastier than fresh cut fries.

Fried potato and onions, you can add peppers. I use the mixed small colored packaged-ones. Also could fry eggs in the pan just before through frying potato mix. Makes it a one pan breakfast, lunch or dinner. To think we used to buy 50# of potatoes once a week when kids were small

I was thinking the same thing as Anniedeb. Grate up (or small dice) a bunch of those potatoes and freeze them in layers on large sheets. Then put into large gallon sized freezer bags. Now you have hash browns ready to go. If you bake them or partially cook them before grating or dicing, cooking them up will be even easier. These can also be used for those cheesy creamy breakfast casseroles, too!

I've never done this, but what about making and freezing mashed potatoes? Can mashed potatoes be frozen?

Just finnished making too large batches of the German Potato Pie. They are in the oven now. That took care of 16 more potatoes. LOL I have a bible study in the morning that is a brunch also so one will go there and the other stays at home.
https://www.cooks.com/recipe/xf6vu10...otato-pie.html

I also made a stock pot full of German potato salad and we have been eating it hot. this is always a favorite.

I am not sure if it is supposed to but the German Potato Salad has a brown color and not from cooking. It smells good but not sure if I like the color.

Sorry German Potato Pie has a top crust that is grey from the potato turning color. Inside looks fine.

I think you could but I am not that creative, I just microwave them.