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Posted by Greg Henry
Sausage and Potato Flat Bread with Mustard Greens

Meat & Potatoes. I promised a week of Meat & Potatoes. 6 recipes in 6 days. That's a week in my book. So this is the last of these recipes.

My meat is sausage. Spicy Italian sausage. My potatoes are potatoes. Is that clear enough?

If not I should also say this is a recipe for flatbread. Meat & Potato Flat Bread with Mustard Greens. I added the mustard greens because spring has begun to sprung here in So. Cal and the hills are alive! Every spring the first things to come alive in the hills near my house are wild mustard plants. That means urban foraging to me.

I live in the Hollywood Hills. My street backs up to some L.A. County conservancy property, which bleeds into Lake Hollywood and the land owned by Department of Water and Power, and culminates in 4200 acres of Griffith Park. That is a lot of wild land in the middle of one of the largest cities in the world.

As I said, winter rain makes spring come early in California. Julie Andrews has nothin’ on these hills, because they really are “alive” right now. That means the tasty young leaves of wild mustard are everywhere. So I was out bright and early today gathering a big bag of mustard greens. Naturally I just had to use them within hours of picking them. So they make an appearance here in the last of my Meat & Potato posts. Meat & Potato Flat Bread with Mustard Greens serves 8 CLICK here for a printable recipe.

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Posted by Greg Henry
Sausage & Potato Flat Bread with Mustard Greens

This is a deliciously simple meat and potatoes flat bread. The meat comes in the form of spicy Italian sausage. The potatoes are well, potatoes!

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Posted by Greg Henry
lefse bib

As I was preparing to leave on my Panamanian adventure a cold shock of panic coursed through my veins. "How can I leave SippitySup dark for a week whilst I galavant around Central America with the beautiful people of Boquete Gourmet?" I mean I love this little blog, and won't it (and you) get lonely while I'm gone?

What to do... what to do? Well, whenever I am stuck chewing on the phrase "what to do?", I usually turn to Twitter! TWEET...

I immediately TWEETED an SOS:

  • HELP!! FOOD BLOGGER IN NEED (stop)
  • SIPPITYSUP IN DIRE STRAITS (stop)
  • GUEST BLOGGER PLEASE APPLY (stop)
  • ALL YOU NEED IS TALENT AND CHUTZSPAH (stop)
  • AS WELL 500 WORDS WITH PICS AND RECIPE (stop)

Well my non-denominational prayers were answered (or rather tweeted) by Jennifer at Unplanned Cooking! Within moments she tweeted in and reassured me and put all my fears to rest. She would be my guest blogger. She would fill my shoes while I was out traipsing in my boots through the jungles of Panama. And she'd do it with a classic Scandinavian (non-Panamanian) dish called Lefse!

So welcome Madame Unplanned Cooking! Tah Dah...

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Posted by Greg Henry
Mashed Potatoes with Bacon & Cheddar

Reminiscent of twice baked potatoes, this take on mashed potatoes includes bacon and cheddar.

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Posted by Greg Henry
Frittata with Mustard Greens, Pancetta and Potatoes

Truthfully frittatas are one of those things you really do not need a recipe for. But a few guidelines here can help. First choose ingredients you love. I am choosing pancetta, potatoes, and mustard greens.

You’ll want to pre-cook all the ingredients so that you don’t have to overcook the eggs to get the potatoes cooked through.

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Posted by Greg Henry

prepping leeks and potatoes for soupI have decided to quit dwelling on my particular (short term) handicap.

I mean you don’t need the excuse of having your mouth wired shut to enjoy a smooth, velvety cup of soup. Lots of people with perfectly functioning mandibles eat soup. Oh wait that sounds vaguely like I am dwelling upon my affliction. I am not.

That’s because, as the jingle goes, “soup is good food’.

For today’s good food I choose a Leek & Potato Soup. It’s finished with just a touch of cream. Which adds a luxurious bit of richness with out being overly indulgent. Because honestly, a touch is all this soup needs to be creamy and delicious.

This soup is strongly associated with the French. Serve it chilled and you would call it a vichyssoise. Though vichyssoise was actually “invented” in New York at a French restaurant.

Still, I love classic French cooking. I have a lot of opinions about it too, especially for some one who is not French! I am the type of American who might have invented vichyssoise.

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Posted by Greg Henry

roasted tomato soupSo I was in Palm Spring this past weekend getting ready for the FoodBuzz 24, 24, 24: Palm Springs Three-Way event. Which means I was really damn busy.

But I know that Mondays are reserved for all of you TomatoManiacs out there. So despite the fact that I had parties to attend on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Plus I had to play a big part in getting dinner for 50 prepared for our Three-Way party. I was resolved to get a TomatoMania post up here today.

According the TomatoMania calendar I was supposed to be cooking and posting one of the winning tomato recipes on SippitySup today. Because I promised to cook and post about all the winners over the course of the tomato growing season. Scott will be back with more growing tips next week.

I know my obligations. I take them seriously. So I had the winning recipe cards in my bag. But I have to admit I was not super excited about adding one more cooking task to my already kitchen intensive weekend. But a promise is a promise.

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Posted by Greg Henry

minty mashed potatoesGuess what?

I have a lunch date with The Daily Spud. Spud has won prestigious blogger awards. Sup has not. Spud blogs potatoes. So far, Sup has not. Spud will be in San Francisco next week. Sup will too!

We may be doing Vietnamese food. I wonder if Spud knows there are not a lot of potatoes in Bahn Mi! Come to think of it there are not a lot of potatoes in any Vietnamese cooking. Well maybe sweet potatoes (I think…)? But (gasp!) I just thought about something else. What will we talk about?

I don’t know a lot about potatoes. Why do you think I read The Daily Spud in the first place?

Spud is Irish so there is always ale. I can talk about ale, and lager and beer…

But really I should bone up on potatoes, don’t you think. I mean Spud is visiting this country from a land far, far away. Diplomatic proto-call requires I make the alien (err I mean, visitor) feel welcome.

So I am honoring the Irish Spud with a mashed potato recipe! Not just any mashed potatoes either. Green Mashed Potatoes!  Minted Mashed Potatoes & Peas.

Cuz I am still stuck on mint!

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