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I have been tinkering with a good potatoes recipe and this recipe provided the proper insights for perfection. The micro trick works well, and the potatoes really form a great crust. Keeping the onions separate also adds to a great dish. I got fancy with mine and drizzled the poached egg and taters with a touch of tarfufo oil. Outstanding.

This was so delicious, my boyfriend asked me to make it again the next night! Next time I will add bacon because everything is better with bacon!

Ok, I woke up this morning and ran to the store to get the ingredients I needed to make this

Made this last night - SO good! It was just the right protein/sctarch/homecooking blend that I needed to get me through my term paper. I don't honestly know how to "properly" poach and egg, but I seemed to have good results with the ladle-method. Even my runny-egg-phobic husband said he like the bite he had of mine ...though he asked for his own fried instead of poached. Oh well. Thanks!

Looks nummy. To make it even better make sure you pick the right eggs. Read http://www.newrinkles.com/index.php/archive/which-eggs-to-buy/ to see a comparison of eggs and learn more.

Those look really tasty...anyone here like bubble and squeak?

Oh I'm from the U.P. of michigan
and apples here are a delight
we bake them, saute them
stuff them and braise them
one way or another each night

The apple is held is high esteem
It's a red & gold jewel
So tart you'll drool
Their diversity is un-paralleled
Jonagold, Fiji, and translucents I've held
They are perfection in every bite!

The only apples I will eat are ones that are grown on my property or a property that I know what is going on agriculturally. The apple is a fruit that requires an incredible amount ot treatment to make the apple come out pretty good. So the ones that are sold in the stores have been treated with "things" throughout the year. Fungicides and pesticides mostly but lots of these chemicals all through the yearly cycle. Now there some, not many, organic apple growers out there and it is a tough job to get apples that consumers will want to buy. People who grow their own apples get used to the fact that many of them are ugly and just cut away the ugly or scabby parts. Most commercially grown apples have the dickens sprayed out of them to make them look pretty in the store. BUT, the truth be known that they are not the healthiest apples you can eat. They also can travel MILES in trucks that are treating the apple with gases to make them ripen while keeping them from spoiling. Brings new meaning to the phrase "American as apple pie."

I love the way apples taste, but alas, I'm allergic. I rather enjoy breathing, so no apples for me. It makes me sad, but I've learned to live without.

I live in NH, where apple orchards abound. Its apple season here and no apple you get at the supermarket is anything at ll like the ones you just pick off the tree at the height of the season. I love to chomp on big, juicy, slightly tart Mac's right off the tree while I'm picking.

You can get just about every fruit and vegtable all year long all over the country, but none of them will be as good as just picked in season and local. An out of season far-travellled apple tastes just as bland as the same type of tomato tastes awful. Living in NH, I will only eat fresh tomatoes 3 weeks in August, grown locally. Well, usually. UgliFruit Tomatoes from Florida, if you can find them, are good go-to's the rest of the year. But that's IT. Same idea with apples.

I only like apples that are so hard they are green inside. They must also be super super cold. A warm mealy apple is .....ugh no thanks!

@usinda

There are few things I hate worse than a mealy apple. I think that's what turned me off of apples for so long.

Honeycrisps brought me back though. They have a perfect combination of tartness (not as sour as the granny smith), crisp texture (I have yet to have a mealy honeycrisp), and lots of juice.