Potatoes News

We may not have the weather to match, but May is International Mediterranean Diet Month and a great opportunity to put some heart-healthy 'sunshine' into your diet.

More than one million people died in the Irish Potato Famine of the mid-19th century, with another million migrating to America and elsewhere, making 40 percent of Irish-born people part of the diaspora by 1914.

The best intentions of the school lunch lady go unappreciated as students scrap entrees into the trash and toss away perfectly good vegetables and cups of canned fruit, some eschewing the meal entirely for a brown bag from home.

Finally the weather is changing for the better and we can get to enjoy some great seasonal treats associated with this time of the year.

The oil content of sweet potato chips can be reduced by 60% if vacuum fried with an additional de-oiling mechanism, finds new research.

Do you love Starbucks Petite Vanilla Scones? Well, you're in luck! This is a Copycat Petite Vanilla Scone, even better than the original! Mel and I have had a ritual almost as long as our relationship: we love to walk to Starb... I have Christmas present sixth sense.

A refreshing summer meal and great for an outdoor party as it has no mayonnaise.

Perpetual vegetables-these are the vegetables that, although they don't automatically come up each year, will provide you with what you need to continue to harvest season after season without having to buy anything new.

Last week I posted an adaptation of Mark Bittman's recipe for Black Bean Burgers - fast food, much improved - and I promised to post the companion Mexican Chocolate Shake and Sweet Potato Fries today.

The most foolproof here are the grilled portabella mushrooms, so it's no wonder Robin Donovan serves them up in "Campfire Cuisine." They're sturdy and so easy to prepare.

A Colorado import is making its Phoenix debut, breakfast-style, at 2045 East Camelback Road, in the Town & Country Shopping Center in Phoenix.

Fill the pan with cold water just high enough to cover the potatoes. Place over medium high heat.

When I came of restaurant-cooking age in the late 1980s, "sauce" had started to become a dirty word.

Here is a potato salad recipe that will make you want more and more. It's a change from the mustard potato salad we all know and love - this potato salad is to die for; it is so amazing! Even if you are hooked on the traditional recipe of potato salad, you must try this.

1/3 cup extra virgin olive oil black pepper to taste Peel and cube the potatoes and gently cook those in a pot on the stove top in just enough water to cover.

Oliva Restaurant & Bar is now open at 10 Whitaker St., just south of the new beer garden at Moon River Brewing Co.

This fried chicken couldn't be easier to make and is tasty served cold as well as straight out of the pan.

Lunch: Chicken patty on a bun, potato wedges, black beans, pears, tomatoes and fruit choice for 9-12, and milk.

Ryan DuVall, restaurant critic for The Journal Gazette, was a "foodie" long before joining The Journal Gazette in 1999.

I love grocery shopping - something about viewing all those rows of fresh fruits and vegetables, and spying what's new in the take-home section.