Hash Brown Casserole

I love this hash brown casserole recipe. It's one of those recipes everyone loves.

Paula Deen's Creamy Hash Brown Casserole

Roasted Veggies

What do we do with all those squash and potatoes?  We roast a lot.  Squash is easy.  We cut them in half, scoop out the seeds, put a small pat of butter and a spoonful of brown sugar in each half, and roast them for about 30 minutes at 425.

Potatoes are easy too.  We scrub them, cut them up, toss them in olive oil, spread them on a baking sheet and sprinkle with a fresh herb, garlic, salt and pepper.  Sometimes we will throw in some radish as well. Bake at 425 until tender/crispy, for about 45 minutes.  I use whatever herb I have frozen from the summer share:  thyme, sage, rosemary... Very tasty.

But now we are experimenting with other other potato recipes/ideas since we've ate enough roasted potatoes...

Roast Chicken

Really, really Good. And very easy.  I'm in love with cooking whole chickens now.

Pioneer Woman's Roast Chicken

Creamy Mashed Potatoes

So, in my opinion making mashed potatoes is an art.  I can never get them to be the right consistency.  Making mashed potatoes is like making gravy.  Gravy is an art too.  My grandma is good at both.  I always try to watch her and she has told me over and over. But there is no recipe, so can never do it.  I think I made homemade gravy that was good once.  Anyway, gravy is for another post.  This is about mashed potatoes.

For Thanksgiving, I decided to try this Creamy Mashed Potato recipe from The Pioneer Woman.  Its a make ahead and reheat in the oven recipe, perfect for Thanksgiving.  Anyway, it was good.  And a hit....

Creamy Mashed Potatoes

Garlic Carrots

This was a good cooked carrot recipe.  There are a lot of sweet carrots recipes out there.  I liked this one because the garlic and herbs complimented the carrots already sweet nature.

Garlic Carrots

Pickup 8 & 9

We are well into winter share!  Greens have been gone for a while.  However, we do get cabbages occasionally. We're now picking up storage crops.  Here is a general idea of how much we've picked up the past two pickups (24 lbs each week):

Pickup 8:
sweet Dumpling Squash
confection Squash
assorted potatoes
yellow onions
apples
carrots

Pickup 9:

1 large green cabbage
assorted potatoes
carrots
yellow onions
apples
sweet dumpling squash
2 small celeriac root
1 pound popcorn kernals

I haven't added any new recipes lately.  But we have been mostly roasting the potatoes with some herbs and baking squash with some brown sugar and butter.  I sauteed carrots one day with garlic (aka garlic carrots) which was pretty good.