{"id":8348,"date":"2010-11-03T12:37:57","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T16:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/?p=8348"},"modified":"2018-11-06T21:00:14","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T21:00:14","slug":"christmas-dinner-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/christmas-dinner-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuck for Christmas Dinner Ideas?  Try Potatoes Anna."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Christmas dinner ideas are harder to come by than any other holiday menu.<\/strong> Most people have deep traditions when it comes to their Thanksgiving table, but Christmas presents a great opportunity to try new things, new ideas for the coming new year.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rfsaZIme_Eg?fs=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong>Let\u2019s start with starch.<\/strong> Potatoes are high in calories, high in carbohydrates, high in starch and sugars. For nutritional value, you\u2019re better off with complex grains, but who wants quinoa next to their holiday ham? No one. If we want to change something, let\u2019s change the potato.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Holiday eating is about fulfillment of the soul,<\/strong> not the food pyramid, and potatoes are great comfort food to many families. But, instead of the same-old mashed potatoes, how about a new Christmas dinner idea this year, Potatoes Anna?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Potatoes Anna gives you the best of both worlds that cooked potatoes have to offer.<\/strong> Starting with a basic saut\u00e9 procedure, sliced rinsed and dried potatoes are layered over hot clarified butter. After a bit of salt and pepper, and more butter, another layer of sliced potatoes are added. Continue in this fashion until the pan is filled with a daisy-wheel of layered potatoes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>After browning the Potatoes Anna in the saut\u00e9 pan,<\/strong> cover it with a lid or foil and finish the dish in the oven. This combination of direct source conductive heat along with the indirect convective heat of the oven will give us a new side dish that\u2019s brown and crunchy on the bottom while still soft like mashed potatoes in the middle.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You\u2019ll see why this is such a great potato side dish when you<\/strong> invert the saut\u00e9 pan onto a plate and witness the beautiful plate appeal of browned potatoes atop layers of soft, steaming slices of fragrant goodness.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Try something new this year and get away from basic mashed potatoes.<\/strong> The New Year is coming; it\u2019s time for new traditions, new journeys, exploration and education. Your search won\u2019t end with this one Christmas dinner idea, but hopefully it\u2019s the start.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you have Christmas dinner traditions you\u2019d like to break?<\/strong> Please tell us with a comment below:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/events.genndi.com\/register\/169105139238437402\/afc0f3bfe5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail aligncenter\" title=\"Holiday468x60\" src=\"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/HolidaySuccess250x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"\u201c400\u201d\" height=\"\u201c400\u201d\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Turn Holiday Cooking Stress into <a href=\"https:\/\/events.genndi.com\/register\/169105139238437402\/afc0f3bfe5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Holiday Cooking Success<\/a> this year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you need new Christmas dinner ideas, start with your starch, the potatoes.  Potatoes Anna are simple to make and look great!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":23890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[31],"tags":[102],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8348"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8348"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=8348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}