September 19
What to Eat in a Hurricane
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- Mushroom & Fontina Omelet
- "Quicker" Home Fries [View Recipe]
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Ingredients
- 2 medium potatoes (scrubbed)
- 2 tablespoons oil
- 2 medium scallions (rinsed and trimmed)
- salt & pepper
Instructions
We start off last night by pricking the potatoes with a fork and microwaving them wrapped in paper towels until tender. We set them aside to cool for a few minutes and then wrap in foil and refrigerate overnight.
We heat a large pan over medium heat while we dice the potato. We cut each potato in half and peel it easily with our knife. We chop it into ½ inch cubes as best we can. We put the oil in the pan and add the potatoes in one layer. We do not stir for 3 minutes. Then, we check one, and continue to cook the potatoes undisturbed on the same side until they are a nice brown. We turn the potatoes over with a spatula and continue to cook, stirring more occasionally, until they are browned on most sides. We sprinkle them generously with salt and pepper.
Meanwhile, we slice the scallions. We add these to the cooked home fries and stir.
We serve the home fries with additional salt and pepper.
Robin microwaved the potatoes the night before and refrigerated them. She had planned on eating them cold should the power have been out today. For some reason, she likes potatoes this way. Fortunately, we found a better use for them in the home fries.
Chris actually tried to go into work today. Our house was so untouched by the storm that there didn't seem any reason not to go into work. Well, much of Fells Point, Maryland was under water. His place of work was completely surrounded by water and water covered the lobby floor. Not even this would have kept Chris from going into work (he works on the second floor) except that the only way to get out of the lobby is in the elevator. The elevators in that building are iffy under normal circumstances. With the Chesapeake Bay filling the elevator shaft, it seemed best to call it a day and head home.
For the remainder of the day, we enjoyed a relatively relaxing time. We all watched the new Sleeping Beauty DVD twice, did some crafts and napped. Quite the contrast to how some fared in the aftermath and we do realize how lucky we were.