The Salted Potato

Milk bread rolls with a twist. These are simply fantastic!

Cheese and Quince Dinner Rolls - The Salted Potato from Renée Robinson Dinner Roll or Afternoon Bun? Well friends, I’m here with another recipe for rolls using my Milk Bread recipe as the base and I think it’s worth discussing why I continually come back to this recipe. I bake a lot of breads, all different kinds. Bread is never an afterthought in my meals. If I’...

A very easy cake for when you need a little comfort. That's this cake. Simple and delicious. What's not to love, right?

Olive Oil Cake with Cherries and Cacao Nibs - The Salted Potato from Renée Robinson A Super Easy One-Bowl Cake That Delivers Big Time! I love a good olive oil cake and have made quite a few - some much better than others. I made one from a recipe online a few weeks ago that I thought had great potential, but it didn’t pan out. I decided it was time A Super Easy One-Bowl Cake That...

There's nothing dull or boring about this salad. Summer produce may be gone, but that's no reason to deprive yourself of a great salad. 😋

Red Cabbage and Sour Cherry Salad with Orange Soy Dressing - The Salted Potato from Renée Robinson Keep the Cabbage Salads Coming! Well, folks, as promised, here is what I made with the remaining red cabbage I had left over from the chicken salad I posted last week. There were endless ways I could have gone, but a crunchy side salad to serve with a couple of meals was what I had Keep the Cabbage....

Poached chicken on a bed of red cabbage and other good things with a creamy sesame dressing. It's what I've been craving recently. And here it is.

Chicken Salad with Sesame Tahini Dressing - The Salted Potato from Renée Robinson What Can I Say? I'm Crazy About These Kinds of Meals. Those of you who’ve been following me for years know how I feel about salads. They’re at the top of my list of favorite things to eat. Now I’m not talking about lackluster sad green salads with a slice of a bad tomato thrown What Can I Say?...

Cheese bread - Blue Cheese And Fig Milk Bread. This is a very good thing, my friends.

Blue Cheese and Fig Stuffed Milk Bread - The Salted Potato from Renée Robinson Cheese Bread is Never a Bad Thing, Right? I don’t know if you’ve tried making milk bread yet. If you have, then you know how easy and wonderful it is. If you haven’t, it’s a great place to start your bread baking journey. My recipe is easy to follow and produces perfect results. And while Ch...

Orange Beurre Blanc is such a thing of beauty. And so delicious. And easy to make. And a few drops of chili oil add a nice little bit of zingy heat.

Steelhead Trout with Orange Beurre Blanc and Chili Oil - The Salted Potato from Renée Robinson There's No Need to Save This Recipe For a Special Occasion! Does this look fancy to you? I guess it kind of does. But trust me when I tell you it’s an easy meal and there's no reason you can't serve this to your family whenever the urge strikes. Let’s begin with the steelhead trout. There's No N...

I love this recipe. It took me while to get there, but it was worth every minute.

Pistachio Frangipane Croissants - The Salted Potato from Renée Robinson One of the Best Things I've Ever Made! I’ve been making David Lebovitz’s recipe for almond croissants for years. It was a revelation for me to learn from him that these are normally made in France using day old croissants. I simply buy a dozen croissants, usually the inexpensive ones from Costco...

Some really good stuffed tomatoes. Trust me.

Sausage Stuffed Tomatoes with Orange - The Salted Potato from Renée Robinson Sausage, Parmesan, Lots of Cooked Onions? Oh, Yes! There are tomatoes and then there are tomatoes, by which I mean great end-of-summer tomatoes. I’ve been making BLT’s like there’s no tomorrow, caprese salads, panzanella, and just slicing them with a little salt and olive oil. Aren’t they on...

How's this for a summer treat? I just posted a new recipe for roasted plums that you can put on top of a bowl of yogurt or ice cream or anything else you can think of. So good!!

Roasted Plums with Orange and Sumac - The Salted Potato from Renée Robinson Roasting the Plums Turns Them Into a Mouthwatering Topping. This seems to have been my Summer of Plums. Well, and cantaloupes, but we’ll get to that another time. I’ve had such good luck with many different types of fantastic plums and pluots that I’ve been eating them in all sorts of ways. I ...

Cherries, peaches and a few other simple ingredients make a superb salsa!

Fresh Cherry Peach Salsa for Pork Chops or Anything Else - The Salted Potato from Renée Robinson Who Doesn't Love a Great Salsa? When seasonal fruit is at its peak, I buy tons of it, and find such joy in figuring out ways to incorporate it into my meals. Salads are a no brainer, as are desserts of all kinds, but a fresh salsa is also delicious. While I served this with Who Doesn't Love a Great....

What a great summer salad - Fresh corn, blackberries, and queso fresco!

Spicy Summer Salad of Corn, Blackberries, and Queso Fresco - The Salted Potato from Renée Robinson Now This is a Salad Worth Talking About! Summer corn, blackberries, lots of scallions, queso fresco, and homemade torn croutons are the basic ingredients in this salad and they’re all delicious in their own right. But when they’re combined and topped with a simple dressing, along with some spice...

Plum cobbler - I can't get enough of this one!

Plum Brown Butter Cobbler - The Salted Potato from Renée Robinson Plums in a Cobbler? Oh, Yes! Fruit cobblers can be made so many different ways and most of those will be good. For instance, when I grew up my mother only made cobblers with pie crust and I will always love that type, while I find that a biscuit topped cobbler is only good straight Plums in a Cobble...

Homemade applesauce with early summer apples is a very good thing. I swear.

Creamy Warm Applesauce - The Salted Potato from Renée Robinson Warm Applesauce? In Summer? You Bet! Last fall, when I moved from Florida to Pennsylvania, one of the most eagerly anticipated changes in my life was going to be the selection of farmers’ markets available in my new home state. As spring has turned to summer I’ve been discovering new markets and...

Blueberry Sausage Biscuits - Delicious!!

Blueberry Sausage Biscuits with Miso Maple Sauce - The Salted Potato from Renée Robinson C'mon, Don't You Want One of These Right Now??? Well, folks, this recipe took some doing. It took me 3 times to get it right, and it was worth every minute I put into it. This all came about because my good friend, Jamie Parrish, called me one day and said he’d just eaten one C'mon, Don't You Want...

Beets! And anchovies! Oh, yeah.

Roasted Beets with Anchovy Dressing - The Salted Potato from Renée Robinson Let's Hear it For the Love of Beets! Beets, you either love them or you hate them, there doesn’t seem to be much middle ground on this subject. I always chuckle when I hear people say they taste like dirt because all I can think is that while I’m not aware of ever having actually Let's Hear it F...

Corn on the cob, folks! It's that time of year and this recipe is fantastic. If I do say so myself. Lol!

Corn on the Cob with Maple Soy Butter Sauce - The Salted Potato from Renée Robinson Hallelujah! Beautiful Corn on the Cob Has Arrived. While we may still be a couple of days from the official start of summer, when good corn on the cob hits the markets, summer is here, as far as I’m concerned. There isn’t a single food memory that speaks to me more strongly than eating butter Ha...

Doesn't the thought of ice cold cantaloupe dressed in lime juice, honey, and fresh basil sound like the ideal summer salad??

Cantaloupe with Lime, Honey, and Basil - The Salted Potato from Renée Robinson Quickly and Easily Transform Melon Into a Beautiful Summer Salad. Melons, I love all kinds, and this time of year cantaloupes are starting to really come into their own. As this one sat on my counter and ripened, it was startling how the aroma took over the whole kitchen. I kept thinking about an ic...

Ricotta spread on good toast and then topped with beautiful tomatoes and marinated zucchini feels like summer, doesn't it?

Marinated Zucchini and Tomatoes on Ricotta Toast - The Salted Potato from Renée Robinson Ricotta Toast - One of Life's Great Pleasures! Look, I’m one of those people who will plop almost anything on a piece of good toast and think it’s one of the best things I’ve ever tasted. Seriously, that’s the way I roll. And if the toast has first been smeared with a spoonful of my Ricotta ...

Smoked sausage and harissa? Yep, it's a very good combination. And it's so quick and easy!

Quick and Easy Smoked Sausage with Harissa - The Salted Potato from Renée Robinson This is for Those Days When You Need to Get a Tasty Meal on the Table - Pronto. Don’t we all need recipes that deliver on all fronts, but only take about a half hour to actually make? And when I say a half hour, I mean it. I know I’m not alone in my This is for Those Days When You Need to Get a ...

A sandwich with ham, melted blue cheese, and strawberries? Yep, that's right!

Melted Blue Cheese Sandwiches with Ham and Strawberries - The Salted Potato from Renée Robinson There Are Sandwiches... and Then There Are SANDWICHES. If you’re anything at all like me, you’re always in the mood for a good sandwich. When I think about it, a good pb&j, tuna salad, or anything similar is okay by me. But then there are times when I take sandwiches seriously because I think a ...

Was craving a strawberry rhubarb pie. Voila!

Strawberry and Rhubarb Streusel Pie - The Salted Potato from Renée Robinson It's Definitely Spring When Rhubarb Shows Up At The Market. I had been wanting a strawberry rhubarb pie for quite awhile and when rhubarb finally showed up at my market I knew that Spring had arrived and I jumped on it. Got home and went right to work on a pie. Well, that first attempt It's Definite...

Panzanella Is On My Mind.

Shrimp and Black Bean Panzanella - The Salted Potato from Renée Robinson Everything I Love in a Meal is Right Here on This Plate. My love for panzanella is no secret. It happens to be a dish that ticks all my bells and I’ve made and posted several variations. In my ever-so-humble opinion, a really good panzanella can’t be beaten. It will always be in my top Everythin...

Potatoes. Garlic butter. That about sums this up. A fantastic new potato recipe from The Salted Potato.

Baked Potato Halves with Garlic Butter - The Salted Potato from Renée Robinson The Title of This Recipe Kind of Says It All! While I love a good baked potato, I frequently find that I don’t want to eat an entire big potato, unless I’m serving it as a main course. After making my Sweet Potatoes with Lime Chipotle Butter, in which I slice the potatoes in half The Title of Th...

Pie. No more words necessary.

Blackberry Pie Galette - The Salted Potato from Renée Robinson In Case You're in the Mood to Bake a Pie! When it comes to baking, I know that homemade pie crusts can be daunting. I fully understand why the ease of buying a ready made pie crust is appealing. But in my very personal opinion, there is simply no point in baking a pie if In Case You're in the Mood t...

Pasta sauce that's got a whole bunch of flavor because I added gochujang and gochugaru. It is especially good. You'll see what I mean if you give it a try.

Pork Pasta with Gochujang and Gochugaru - The Salted Potato from Renée Robinson It's Different, Interesting, and Scrumptious, While Also Being Reassuringly Familiar. How about pasta with a meat sauce that is just different enough to be interesting, but still recognizable as a comforting ragu? That’s what I had in mind when I set out to make this meal. The majority of the ingr...