(See Recipe Below)

German Potato Salad

Ingredients:
8-10 Red new potatoes
Bunch of green onion
Hellman’s mayonnaise
4 Eggs
Celery Seed
Salt
Boil new potatoes until done and cool until they can be handled. Boil eggs and cool. Cut potatoes with skins on into bite sized pieces. Peel eggs and separate yolks from whites. Cut whites into small pieces. Throw away eggs or use for other purpose. Slice green onion to ends of white tips and cut into small pieces. Mix potatoes, egg whites and onion together. Mix in Hellman’s mayonnaise to taste. Do not use Miracle Whip; it will not taste the same. Salt to personal taste. Sprinkle celery seed generously over top and stir all ingredients together. Serve warm, room temperature or cold, depending on personal taste.

Butternut Squash, Sage and Chile Risotto

6 cups chicken or veg broth
1 stick unsalted butter
1 large onion chopped
1/8 tsp red pepper flakes
1 lb butternut squash, peeled, seeded and diced (2.5 cups)
2 cups arborio rice
1 T fresh chopped sage
3/4 cup grated Parmesan

Pour broth into large saucepan. Bring to a simmer (keep at gentle simmer).
Melt 4 T of butter in heave saucepan. Add onion and cook 10 minutes.
Stir occassionally, until tender. Stir in crushed red pepper and cook one minute.
Add squash and cook 5 minutes, stirring often until it softens slightly. Stir in rice.
Cook for a few minutes to toast the grains.
Begin adding the broth, one ladleful at a time, stirring gently until each one has been absorbed. Continue stirring until rice is tender and creamy but the grains are still firm.
This should take 15-20 minutes.
Remove from heat and stir in sage, remaining butter and parm.

CHICKEN POT PIE
Pillsbury Pie Crusts

1 can of mixed vegetables, no salt added, drained
2 cans of cream of potato soup
1/2 cup of heavy cream or milk
1 lb of cooked chicken breast cubed
thyme
black pepper (do spices really count? come on....)

Place bottom pie crust in pie pan
Bake at 425 F for 3 minutes

Mix veggies, soup, cream/milk, chicken breasts, seasonings
Pour mixture into pie crust
Place other pie crust on top to cover and pinch edges together
Ooops. another couple ingredients ( I just can't follow directions)
Beat one egg yolk and 2 tbsp of mild and baste top pie crust
Bake at 425 F for 25 minutes

Let sit for 20 minutes and serve