Yuanyang Grilled Potatoes

This dish is from the great book Beyond the Great Wall: Recipes and Travels in Other China. Many of the recipes are super simple, including this one.

Potato Leek Soup

I wasn't originally planning on posting this, so there's only one picture. This is a delicious potato leek soup made with asparagus-mushroom broth. Normally a potato leek soup is mixed so that the potatoes give the soup some body, but I took a different approach, and it worked!

Duck Fat Smashed Potatoes

I had some duck fat, so needed to make something before it went rancid, and I settled on fingerling potatoes, fried and smashed up.

Skillet Potatoes

I don't eat many potatoes; I basically only like french fries and breakfast potatoes, and then only when done right.  To me, "done right" means crispy and bit spicy.  Here's one way to make that happen.