Day 57 - Potato Wedges

Recipe from Jamie's Home Cooking Skills

Today we made something similar to 'chips' but they're called potato wedges. Now you must be thinking, "This doesn't make sense, they've made these before, but they were called chips." But that's where you'd be wrong. To be technical, you have to take the hypotenuse of the frying pan, then multiply by it's circumference.

This may all sound like jargon to you, but it's not.

Actually, it is, but, shhh, don't tell anyone. The chips from before were fried. These potato wedges are baked.

There you have it.

All you do for this simple recipe (I know, I said I'd do something longer and more time laboring, but we didn't get all the right things at the store) is cut potatoes into wedges.

You halfway cook them in boiling water (called parboiling)...

...then you coat them with olive oil, salt, and pepper.

Then cook them in the oven.

Potato Wedges with a hot dog in gluten free toast

Schwam! You have potato wedges.

I thought they were good, but I had a lot on my plate with macaroni (gluten free, of course), a hot dog (on toasted GF bread), and the potato wedges, so I didn't eat them all. But they were good.

2 THUMBS UP for these potatoes!

Day 36 - Chips, aka Potatoes

Cookbook - Jamie's Kitchen

Today is the second to last day of summer so my family decided to have a barbeque. Me and my brother were, like, "What are we going to make that goes with a bbq, except potatoes?"

So I'm, like, "Why don't we make french fries." Jared found a recipe in Jamie's Kitchen for Chips, which here are called french fries.

We didn't have any with our actual dinner since we snacked so much on them while we were making them.

They were delicious. They were a lot of work, though. A lot of work. But it was worth it. I bet you want to know why they were a lot of work when it's just potatoes. There are four steps. You wash the potatoes, dry them off, then you slice them, and then you cut them in half to make them into french fries. Making them all even was the hard part.

They're also not very healthy, but we worked hard for our unhealthy treat.

1 THUMB UP, because they were really greasy.

You could see and taste the grease a lot, so this is not something to have a lot.

Day 34 - Baked French Potatoes

Cookbook - Jamie's Food Revolution

I made some Baked French Potatoes today. I absolutely loved it. I would expect you guys would get tired of hearing that we like everything, but isn't that a good thing?

Anyway, this recipe was really easy, surprisingly. It took about 10 minutes to prepare. We used this handy dandy slicer called a mandolin from Pampered Chef, which my mom likes.

We also used garlic and onions, cooked that, layered the potatoes and the garlic and stuff, then covered with more potatoes, etc. Then you cover it all with chicken broth and bake.

Then, shabam! You've got yourself a bit of potatoes to eat.

Did you know that potatoes make you grow. Really, it's clinically proven to make you grow faster? I think.

I definitely think I shall do this one again. They're all gone. My brothers ate most of it.

One more thing. I think the reason we like most of the recipes is that I have picked things that don't sound gross. And I look for ingredients that I like, too. Just FYI. So I'm a good recipe picker, in my opinion, and maybe Jamie Oliver is a good recipe maker, too.

We're a good team. Me and Jamie should collaborate more often. Oh, maybe me and him can do a Gluten Free cookbook about our kids challenge. Wouldn't that be so cool?

Oaky. Thank you and goodnight. Come back tomorrow.

2 THUMBS UP

Day 20 -- Roasted Chicken Breast with Lemony Potatoes

Recipe -- Jamie Oliver Online

Hello my fellow foodies! Today is day 20 and we made a good chicken meal. It was Roasted Chicken Breasts with Lemony Potatoes. Today's recipe was a last minuto decision. The choices were fish, flounder to be exact, but we weren't in the mood for fish, shrimp, but we didn't have enough, or chicken kebobs but it called for a lot of avocado and we didn't have any.

So we (Jared and me together) used chicken recipe that we found at Jamie Oliver's website and that didn't call for avocados, which, phew, then we were able to make.

What we did to prepare it was to cut potatoes, red bell pepper, coriander (which we used powder and we threw in some cilantro), powdered cumin, lemon zest, lemon juice, and sliced ginger. We tossed that with olive oil, salt, and pepper.

We put into a baking dish then get your chicken and season it with the extra salt and pepper. Lay that on top of the potatoes and stuff and bake it for about 30 minutes.

We flipped the chicken at 20 minute mark because it wasn't ready.

I didn't like this potatoes all that much because I don't like cumin. So next time I would leave that out. You don't have to if you're cumin lovers. But I'm not a big a fan, so next time I will take it out.

I thought the chicken was really good. It didn't have cumin on it so it didn't have that strong flavor. Most of this dish was pretty good.

My parents, on the other hand, loved it (2 THUMBS UP FROM THEM).

I give this 1 THUMB UP (1 1/2 from Jared)

This was another day from the GF Kids Cooking Challenge!

~ Sophie

BTW: We just saw that Jamie Oliver commented on yesterday's blog! He was here and checked out our blog! Very, very cool.

Day 7 - Potato

From Jamie Oliver.com

also called: Baked Potato Skins with gorgonzola, rocket, and mustard fruit

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Dear John,

Today I made so yumalicious potato skins. They when yummy!!! Well..

Bye & Love,

Savannah Curtis

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Okay, that was from Dear Jonathan, the movie otherwise know as Dear John. Now I haven't seen that movie but the girl named Sofia, also known as Sophia with a 'ph', really wants to see it. From there I figured that they write letters to each other, hence the name of the movie, and I wrote a letter as seen above.

Now as you might of guessed I, as in Jared, made some potato skins.

It was easy!!

I got a potato, poked holes in it with a fork, and covered it with olive oil.

Then I cooked them at 400 degrees for an hour and then cut them in half, scooped out the insides, and put them into a biggish bowl. Yes, biggish. Mix with cheese and scoop back in!!!

Very yummy if you ask me but if you don't ask me they're still very yummy.

Then you add rocket (if you don't know what that is, don't fell like a loser, I didn't either) but we used oregano and it worked just as good.

So... until next time... (did you notice that I always say that at the end? It's cause I don't know what else to say...). So...until next time...

7 (or 2) THUMBS WAY UP