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Potato Chips In The Microwave: Success On The First Try!

I happened to see the recipe on Facebook today for microwave potato chips and thought that it sounded like a 'complex' recipe I could tackle, so I gave it a try. The recipe I used was from Chatelaine, a site I absolutely love! The link below will take you directly to the recipe on their blog.

My kitchen doesn't have a mandoline, so ended up just slicing a potato very thinly with a paring knife and it was fine. You'll be surprised how many chips just one potato makes too. I didn't think to take a before photo, sorry. It looked pretty much like the one on Chatelaine though. Here's the finished product:

The picture really doesn't do justice to the chips, but I can attest to the fact that they were crisp and did take the same amount of time suggested as the recipe on Chatelaine. And yes, that one of my "antique" Corelle plates circa 1978. 

This brings up all sorts of ideas for other veggie chips. Yams perhaps?

 

Get the recipe from Chatelaine here.  Enjoy!

Hormel: The Products, The Family, And The Memories

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Hormel Foods. All opinions are 100% mine.

My take on this opportunity might be a bit out of the norm from other writers. My father-in-law grew up near the hormel family home in Austin, Minnesota during the early years of the family food business. His family was not at well off as the Hormels, in fact, quite the opposite.  But he can claim to have been in their home as a young boy and has some distant memories of that event.

Hormel is now celebrating its 75th anniversary this year and it's interesting to see how their products have been a staple in many families through the decades. 

When I was growing up we almost always had a can or two of Hormel's Dinty Moore Beef Stew in the cupboard, as well as some cans of Spam too.  Mom would butter some bread for Dad and dish up a big bowl of it and he'd be as happy as a pig in mud chowing down on that tummy-filling meal.  Dad liked their chili too, and sometimes in the winter months when he was working as a carpenter, Mom would fill his food jug with that savory hot spiciness, adding a few saltines and a sandwich in the lunchbox to keep him energized all afternoon. 

Do you have favorite memories of Hormel products? What are your favorite recipes?

Date Nut Ice Box Cookies Recipe

Date Nut Ice Box Cookies

– 400 degrees for 8 minutes – ungreased cookie sheet

 

1 C shortening

2 C brown sugar

2 eggs

1 C nuts (chopped fine)

1 C dates (chopped fine)

 

3 ½ C flour

1 tsp soda

1 tsp salt

1 tsp vanilla

 

Cream shortening; add sugar gradually and cream well. Add well-beaten eggs. Add nuts and dates that have been finely chopped in food grinder.

Add vanilla. Sift flour once before measuring. Sift flour, soda, and salt together, and combine with creamed mixture with hands. Form dough into rolls 2 in. in diameter. Wrap in waxed paper and chill. Slice and bake at 400 degrees for approximately 8 min. “Approx” because you really need to watch them so they don’t burn.

These cookies can be made ahead of time, frozen and then thawed when you want to make fresh cookies.

 

Recipe given to me by Joan Moline Yates in the 1970’s. Obviously, many people these days have food processors and heavy duty mixers that can make it easier to combine the ingredients. Mom had a meat grinder and her (washed) hands. <smile>  These were my Dad’s favorite cookies (mine too!). Enjoy!