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Cooking With Potatoes

So versatile is the potato.
It’s orange; it’s yellow; it’s white; it’s sweet.
It’s baked or boiled; it’s mashed or fried.
It’s served with poultry, with fish or with meat.

I love to cook, and I have for you
three recipes for potato dishes.
Not too expensive, they’re easy and fast.
But best of all, they are most delicious!

A Tator Tot casserole I love to bake.
With my company, it’s always a  hit.
Ground beef fried with onion is mixed with creamed soup
and the bag of tots! Bake with cheese over it!

From my childhood comes the twice baked potato.
I’m sure you’ve heard of it – bacon and cheese.
But try some canned tuna with canned green beans.
Top with good cheese; microwave; it’s a breeze.

Last is a recipe that I obtained 
from the time that I spent in Madrid.
The Spanish omelet’s really big there.
This is a recipe that I “redid.”

I fry chopped potatoes and onions in oil.
Salt and pepper it; drain off the oil when gold.
Stir in lots of eggs till it’s moist and thick.
In omelet shapes this mixture should hold.

Onto a large griddle, pour each omelet shape.
Turn them like pancakes when each side is done
I’ve Americanized it by adding Tabasco,
melting cheese on it too; this food is so fun!

These are just three dishes made with potatoes.
I have many more. Do you think you could make
at least one of these I’ve described? Let me know!
And I hope you already know how to bake!

July 28, 2019 
For Chantelle Anne Cooke's  Cornucopia Cooking Poetry Contest

Copyright © Andrea Dietrich | Year Posted 2019

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Old Buck Date: 5/15/2020 1:52:00 PM Very entertaining. If I were a cook, I'd certainly try these. I tend to be more "the eater". I have written some "Road Kill Stew" stuff that rhymed. Well as close to rhyme as I get. :o) Thank you for sharing your work with all of us on the "soup". No pun intended. :o) Keep them coming. We're up for seconds. :o) oldbuck Login to Reply

Panagiota Romios Date: 8/6/2019 1:21:00 PM Congratulations Panagiota Login to Reply

P.S. Awtry Date: 8/5/2019 8:58:00 AM Cornucopia of rhyming recipes :D Congratulations - ps Login to Reply

Paula Goldsmith Date: 8/4/2019 10:29:00 AM Great win................. When do we eat???? Login to Reply

Jan Allison Date: 8/4/2019 4:12:00 AM Many congrats on your trophy win Andrea:-) hugs Jan xx Login to Reply

Robert Johnson Date: 8/3/2019 6:21:00 PM Well, I gotta go eat now, :) YUM! They all sound so delicious. And I love how you rhymed that with dishes. :) I'm glad I decided this was the last one of yours today that I was going to read. I'm hungry. :) <3 :) Login to Reply

Randy Steele Date: 8/3/2019 3:24:00 PM Congrats on your win, Andrea. Deliciously penned. What time is dinner? Login to Reply

Joseph May Date: 8/3/2019 2:44:00 PM Congrats on your win Andrea.. Login to Reply

Line Gauthier Date: 8/3/2019 1:38:00 PM Congrats on your top win, Andrea. Well done. Login to Reply

Jeanne Mcgee Date: 8/3/2019 11:44:00 AM Yummy...you make potatoes sound so amazing! Congrats on top place win. Login to Reply

Rhona Mcferran Date: 7/31/2019 12:05:00 AM Mouth-watering and cleverly penned! If I had any potatoes in the house... I'd be heading to the kitchen right now! ;D Login to Reply

CayCay Jennings Date: 7/30/2019 8:02:00 PM I love doing things to potatoes, always have. What kind of cream soup with the tots? I want to try that. This is a very mature poem, as though Betty Crocker herself were poetically addressing us from a home ec class in the fifties. I mean that as a compliment, it has such charm and confidence. Love, CayCay Login to Reply

Lindsay Laurie Date: 7/30/2019 7:23:00 PM Hello Andrea … what a great verse to encourage people to cook the humble spud. I really enjoy the chats steamed with butter, salt, pepper, and cheese, or cooked in coals making the skin slightly burnt and crisp, but boy or boy, your recipes read great - thank you Andrea - Lindsay Login to Reply

Jennifer Proxenos Date: 7/30/2019 2:28:00 PM Potato heaven - roll them, bake with them, have fun with them, fry them and pat them and bake them with cheese, don't forget to microwave, its a breeze - love this poem Andrea - it has a certain sing song beat to it and definitely some delicious recipes! Love and hugs, Jennifer. Login to Reply

Constance La France Date: 7/29/2019 8:29:00 AM Andrea, these are great recipes for sure, I would have to adjust them for a vegetarian but sure it can be done. Best of luck in the contest ~ Login to Reply

Tom Cunningham Date: 7/29/2019 2:33:00 AM Your verse has certainly given me an appetite Andrea, Good luck. Tom Login to Reply

Connie Marcum Wong Date: 7/28/2019 9:09:00 PM Wow Andrea, these sound easy to fix. A great entry that you managed to rhyme. Since I don't enjoy cooking I never write about food. You did really well. xxoo Login to Reply

Vijay Pandit Date: 7/28/2019 7:29:00 PM Those photos look so delicious..so well done, Andrea--all the best. Login to Reply

Arturo Michael Date: 7/28/2019 6:56:00 PM You right it's versatile...potatoes fit anywhere...with bacon better, especially if mashed and buttered...well the omelet is a standard for me and you can't go wrong baked like a shepherds pie... Login to Reply

Joseph May Date: 7/28/2019 6:51:00 PM The potato makes so many dishes...Very nicely written Andrea...GL in the Contest.. Login to Reply

Darlene De Beaulieu Date: 7/28/2019 5:52:00 PM Hello Andrea, oh it is a good thing I just had dinner. Because this is interesting meals to try. have a nice evening my friend. Login to Reply

Jan Allison Date: 7/28/2019 4:58:00 PM mmm my mouth is watering Andrea these recipes sound delicious by the way I have never heard of 'tots' I assume its something you just have in the US. Hugs Jan xx Login to Reply

Ilene Bauer Date: 7/28/2019 4:56:00 PM yours are the first recipes i've even seen in rhyme, andrea, and you've done a wonderful job of it! i'm not much of a cook but these do sound pretty easy and delicious... Login to Reply