French Fried Potato Balls

Ingredients

1 cup mashed potatoes
1 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 egg, beaten
5 tablespoons milk

Directions

In a large mixing bowl, mix ingredients in order given. Drop from a tablespoon into deep fryer at 360ºF. When brown, drain on brown paper. Serve hot.

Recipe can be found here.

One Pan Chicken and Potato Bake

4 chicken pieces

4 potatoes, cut in wedges

¼ cup zesty Italian dressing

¼ cup Parmesan cheese

Preheat oven to 400°

Place chicken and potatoes in 9 X 13 pan.

Pour dressing over, sprinkle with cheese

Bake for one hour.

Holiday Bacon Appetizers

Ingredients
1 package Club Crackers
1 pound Thin Sliced Bacon (or More Depending On Number Of Crackers)
Grated Parmesan Cheese
Optional Alternative: Brown Sugar Instead Of Parmesan Cheese

Preparation Instructions
Lay crackers (as many as you want) face up on a cookie sheet.
Scoop about 1 teaspoon of grated Parmesan cheese onto each cracker. Cut your package of bacon in half (or cut pieces individually) and carefully, so the cheese doesn’t fall off, wrap each cheese covered cracker in one half piece of bacon, completely covering the cracker. It should fit snugly around the cracker.
Place the bacon wrapped crackers onto a baking sheet that has a rack on it.

Place in a 250-degree oven for about 2 hours.

You can make them way ahead of time, then store them in a large Ziploc in the freezer. Then, when you’re ready to serve them, just thaw and warm in the oven for about 10 minutes.

This recipe was found here.

Mashed Potatoes

5 large potatoes, boiled

½ cup milk

2 Tbsp butter

1 tsp salt

Place potatoes in bowl and break apart with a fork.  Attach bowl and flat beater to mixer.

Gradually turn to speed 4 and beat until smooth (about 1 minute).  Add milk, butter and salt.  Turn to speed 4; beat until milk is absorbed (about 30 seconds).  Gradually increase speed to 6 and continue beating until fluffy (about 1 minute.)

Change to wire whip.  Whip on speed 10 for 2-3 minutes.

recipe found in the Kitchen Aid cookbook.