Adobo Potatoes Gratin The New Southwest Cookbook Spotlight: Review & Giveaway

Adobo Potatoes Gratin

On Friday I flew to Chicago to cook in the Kenmore kitchens, more on this later. I love traveling for events in where I get the opportunity to meet fellow twitter, blog or facebook friends, be inspired, have fun cooking the entire day and give me the reassurance that my passion is worth all the late nights, eye blurring editing and early morning photo sessions. I had the best time.

But like clockwork the second day came around and I found myself missing home, missing my little gals and missing dinner with the family. I know, I know I am such a crybaby. My little sis tells me all the time have fun, don’t worry about the kids; you need to get out of the house (gasp).

But all my best recipes that are featured here I have made for our family dinners, that’s when the real magic happens. My little gals and I in the kitchen together, with the tunes on, dicing and chopping and laughing while we make dinner for the family. And then I began to crave comfort food, comfort food at the table with the entire family. So I scanned through Meagan’s new book the new Southwest (yes I took it on my trip, I read on the flights). And I found adobo potato gratin, oh the picture just screams comfort and chipotles, they are one of many of my weakness.

I arrived at midnight Saturday night, was off to mass on Sunday morning, then straight into the kitchen with my gals. Tunes, slicing, blending, stirring and loads of laughing. I invited over the entire family and decided to make a double batch of this potato gratin. I did leave out the chipotles for one of the batches, for the kiddos and it came out great.  Just follow the instructions as it without the chiles. The adults got the spicy version and we were all in chipotle heaven, 4 chipotles may be a tad spicy for some, but we like our comida with a bit of kick. Feel free to trust your judgment and add chiles to your preferred taste.

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I am completely enamored with this book.

First –  Meagan is one of my favorite blogging ladies, so I am all too familiar with her food. And her blog makes me crave everything she makes.

Second – She provides the readers with section called The Southwestern Pantry at the beginning of the book which is a great tool for people who might not be familiar with some of the ingredients. A helpful guide that provides you the knowledge to create every recipe in this book.

Third– Can we talk flavor people? This book is loaded with dishes that ooze flavor from honey streusel coffee cake, caramel soaked Mexican chocolate pancakes, salsa Bandera chicharrones, cheesy beer bread, stacked squash enchiladas to picadillo meatloaf with haberno ketchup.

Two thumbs up!

Congrats Meagan,

 

 

 

How to Enter this Contest:

1. Mandatory Entry: Leave a comment on this blog post letting me know what your favorite Southwestern dish is.

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Hippocrene will be supplying 14 copies of The New Southwest by Meagan Micozzi for this giveaway, in conjunction with The New Southwest Cookbook Spotlight.  Contest is open to anybody with a shipping address in the USA.  Submissions will be accepted via the rafflecopter widget through 11:59 pm ET on Sunday, November 3, 2013.  Fourteen winners will be chosen by random draw, verified, and be notified by email (from Heather at girlichef) within 48 hours of the close of this contest.  The winner should respond within 24 hours of notification, or a new winner will be drawn in their place.  Good Luck!

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This post is part of The New Southwest Cookbook Spotlight sponsored by Hippocrene and hosted at girlichef.

 

 

 

 

 

I received a free copy of this cookbook from Hippocrene, and they are also providing the copies for the winners of the giveaway. I was not compensated for this post. All thoughts and opinions are my own.