Potato Recipes for Your Next Picnic

Esther's Potato Salad
Ingredients: Potatoes, onions, celery, hard boiled egg, raw eggs, sugar, flour, pepper, salt, butter, vinegar, water, milk, prepared mustard, dry mustard, mayonnaise, paprika, parsley, and celery seed.

Hot Garlic and Bacon Potato Salad
This simple recipe calls for Idaho or red bliss potatoes, bacon, green bell peppers, red onions, California style garlic pepper, and red wine vinegar.

Picnic Potato Salad
A comforting and familiar salad made even better with a hint of fresh dill.

Sweet Potato Casserole
Ingredients: sweet potatoes, butter, sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, and eggs.  Brown Sugar Topping: brown sugar, cinnamon, nuts, butter, and all-purpose flour.

Smoky Mashed Potato Bake
Ingredients: garlic cloves, olive oil, new potatoes, shredded smoked Gouda cheese, fat-free half-and-half, Chipotle peppers in adobo sauce, light margarine, fat-free cream cheese, and salt.

Rex Allen’s Cream Cheese Mashed Potatoes
Ingredients: all-purpose potatoes, chive and onion cream cheese spread, milk, and salt.

Baked Candied Yams
Ingredients: yams (or sweet potatoes), butter, brown sugar, and water.

Sweet Potato Risotto
Ingredients: dry white wine or water, chopped onion, garlic clove, uncooked Arborio or other short-grain rice, mashed cooked sweet potato, chicken broth, grated Parmesan cheese, chopped fresh rosemary leaves or dried rosemary leaves, and ground nutmeg.

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