Yukon Gold

Nooooooo! Don't abandon ship... why don't you just cheat... have something you want, and then talk yourself into believing it won't have any nutritional impact to speak of? I cheated at the very beginning, remember? Plus... I had a beer on Tuesday. :( YOU CAN DO IT!

I hate this diet but it's interesting so I want to keep going!

I got a huge plate of cheesy tots with kickass spice last night at the Florida Room. I ate them again for lunch today. My poop is still orange and it's starting to smell like cheesy potatoes, plus it has an interesting pasty consistency. Like mashed potatoes.

Why would it be orange?

I think I need to eat more skins.

Russet Burbank

Oh thanks, Yukon! Those recipes all sound great. I'll totally try them out.

but I have to tell you, I don't think I'm going to make it! I am about to crack! :(

I am so hungry and miserable.

Yukon Gold

Ginny, check this out! Modified funeral potatoes:

1-lb bag of frozen hash brown potatoes
1 cup of sour cream
1 can Campbell's cream of potato soup
1 lb shredded cheddar cheese
1 TBSP minced onion or 1 chopped green onion


Mix together and put in a baking pan, top with a bunch of crushed potato chips, bake at 350 for about an hour!

Last night I made fantastic mashed potatoes: I simmered some Russet Burbanks with a clove of garlic and then added butter, salt, pepper, sour cream, and a teaspoon of minced parsley.

There is a cucumber in the fridge staring at me. I might have to throw it away.

Yukon Gold

Yoo-hoo! Burbank!

http://www.idahopotato.com/recipe.php

Lots of potato recipes!

Yukon Gold

We are 1/4 of the way through! WE CAN DO IT!

Yukon Gold

All I want is a tin of smoked oysters.

Burbank, to fry mashed potatoes you just throw some butter in a pan, then make a little patty out of leftover mashed potatoes and put in the hot pan, and fry it on each side until golden. Then eat!

Potato cheese soup is just potato soup (with a milk base) and at the end, you throw in a handful of cubed cheddar.

Russet Burbank says...

The past two days (today and yesterday), I've been really tempted to quit. I thought pretty seriously about it last night. There is so much delicious food in the apartment and I can watch it be enjoyed but cannot enjoy it myself. And today school started up again, which I expect might make this a bit more challenging, being away from home for about 7 hours a day. It's not like I can just pack a potato in my bag and munch on it whenever. Still going strong though! Making it through.

I am sure that the fried content is indeed getting to me, so I'm already cutting back on the greasy stuff, and I am certainly keeping up on yogurt and cottage cheese and active cultures and all that. Hopefully my body will get comfortable with this asap and quit craving stuff.

Tell me how you go about frying mashed potatoes, please! And making potato cheese soup, too. That sounds good. We should have a dinner together at some point.