I didn’t realize how close this Rachael Ray recipe was to the buttermilk smashed potatoes we had a few nights ago, but I would argue that it taste different. I love potatoes, I could probably eat them every day, but I don’t. You know who has the best potatoes? The Mall food court, I used to always get a cheese and bacon stuffed potato; then as I got older I added broccoli to that meal. Don’t knock it if you haven’t try it, but tonight we’ll have tators with cheese and tomatoes!

Recipe:Ranch Style Stuffed Tators

Ranch Style Stuffed Potatoes

Cookbook: Big Orange Book

Total Time: 20 minutes

Notes: The recipe says to cook the potatoes in the oven, but I cooked out 2 in the microwave, it worked perfectly! I skipped out on the sour cream, as Tony Horton would say from P90X, got my potatoes, no butter, no sour cream, which these don’t have, but they do have cheese! I guess that may even it out!

Here is another fried chicken Rachael Ray recipe. I love everything bagels and cream cheese. I first fell in love with them in high school. During yearbook we’d always make an “illegal” trip to New York Bagel and Co. That’s what I would always get, an everything bagel. I thought I’d give this Everything Chicken a try, and it tasted like a chicken rolled in an everything bagel with cream cheese. It was delicious. I debated about baking this chicken, but I had to make these quick so frying it was. Again, this is something that I think you could bake on high heat and sprinkle with a little EVOO and get the same effect. Sometime I will try that over frying.

Recipe: Everything Chicken Roll Ups (recipe coming soon)

Everything Chicken Roll Ups

Cookbook: 365 Days: No Repeats

Total Time: 15 minutes

Notes:I am really bad at rolling things in chicken. There wasn’t as much cream cheese in these as I would like, but maybe Rachael Ray needs to have me on her show and teach me how to roll these up. They did alright, like I said not enough cream cheese. I also made these without poppy seeds because I didn’t have any, and $4 for a little jar was a little too much for my taste. Also, some how I ran out of eggs, so I just dipped them in milk.