On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 10:21:10 -0500, "MJ" > wrote:

>I m making a ham for dinner tonight and id like to have potatoes as a side
>dish..but i am in need of something different to do with them..does anyone
>have any ideas?? Im open to suggestions of all kinds..
>Thanks
>MJ
>
If you have a ricer, Rice the [boiled] potatoes directly onto the
plates. Dribble a little nice oil and sprinkle fleur de sel. It makes
a startlingly elegant but simple presentation.

I did not invent this. I saw Michael Romano do it and tried it at
home. It is really easy. You don't even have to peel the potatoes,
because the skin won't go through the ricer.


Another thing I like to do, if I have time to bake potatoes:

With an apple corer, the kind with a little hole saw on the end, take
a plug out of the potato. Put a peeled garlic clove, a seeded hot
pepper, and another garlic in the cavity. Press the plug in to see how
far it will go, withdraw and cut to length, reinsert it and pin with a
little skewer.

The capseicin will penetrate gently, so the potato gets hotter as you
eat near the pepper, but it is very gradual. Your guests can eat as
far in as they are comfortable.



Rodney Myrvaagnes NYC J36 Gjo/a

"Religious wisdom is to wisdom as military music is to music."