Roasted Roquefort Potatoes Food

DOUBLE-BAKED ROQUEFORT POTATOES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
• Pierce potatoes with fork. Place potatoes directly on oven rack. Bake until potatoes are tender, about 1 hour 15 minutes. Transfer to baking sheet; cool 5 minutes.
• Halve each potato lengthwise. Scoop flesh from potatoes, leaving 1/4-inch-thick shell; place flesh in large mixing bowl. Add crumbled Roquefort cheese and sour cream to potato flesh; mash until smooth. Season mixture with salt and pepper.
• Spoon potato mixture into 8 potato shells, mounding slightly and dividing equally (reserve remaining 4 potato shells for another use). Place potatoes on baking sheet. Sprinkle Parmesan cheese over potatoes. Dot with butter. (Can be made 1 day ahead. Cover and refrigerate.).
• Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Bake potatoes until heated through and beginning to brown on top, about 25 minutes. Sprinkle parsley over potatoes and serve.

EASY ROQUEFORT POTATO GRATIN

Steps:

• Set oven to 425 degrees.
• Butter a 15 x 10-inch baking dish (preferably glass).
• Layer potatoes in prepared dish, sprinkling each layer with salt and pepper.
• Bring the whipping cream to a boil in a saucepan; reduce heat to medium and add in Roquefort, whisk until cheese melts.
• Pour the cheese/cream mixture over the potatoes.
• Cover with foil.
• Bake for about 1 hour, or until potatoes are desired tenderness.
• Set oven to broil.
• In a small bowl mix together the breadcrumbs and dried rosemary.
• Sprinkle over potatoes.
• Dot with butter pieces, and broil until the crumb mixture is golden brown (watch closely) about 3-4 minutes.
• Let stand for 10 minutes before serving.

HERBED MASHED POTATOES WITH ROQUEFORT

Steps:

• Place the potatoes in lightly salted cold water to cover. Boil until their centers can be pierced easily with a knife, about 12 to 15 minutes. Drain the potatoes.
• In a medium-sized saucepan, scald the milk and cream. Add the butter and continue cooking until the butter melts.
• Place a ricer over a large saute pan and push the potatoes through the ricer.
• Place the pan with the potatoes over medium heat and, stirring with a wooden spoon, gradually pour in the scalded milk. Mix until the potatoes are smooth and creamy.
• Fold in the herbs and seasonings.
• Serve on warm places and sprinkle with Roquefort cheese.

BOBBY FLAY'S CHICKEN WITH ROQUEFORT

Steps:

• Heat oven to 400 degrees. Put honey in a small saucepan and cook over medium-low heat until lightly golden brown, about 5 minutes. Add vinegar and cook until reduced and thickened, about 15 minutes. This sweet deglazed sauce is called a gastrique. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Keep warm.
• Mix together the butter and blue cheese in a small bowl until well blended, and season to taste with salt and pepper. Using your fingers, gently loosen the skin from the chicken breasts and stuff about 1 heaping tablespoon of the blue cheese butter under the skin of each breast, smoothing the skin to evenly distribute the butter over the surface of the breast meat. Season both sides of the chicken with salt and pepper.
• Heat oil in large ovenproof sauté pan over medium heat until it begins to shimmer. Put chicken in the pan, skin-side down, and cook until fat renders and skin is golden brown and crispy, about 5 minutes. Turn chicken and add four rosemary sprigs to pan. Place in oven and roast until breasts are just cooked through, about 5 minutes longer. Remove pan from oven and heat broiler. Spread the remaining butter over the tops of each breast and place under the broiler until golden brown and blistered.
• Remove each breast to a plate, spoon some of the pan drippings over each breast and immediately drizzle with some of the gastrique. Garnish with rosemary.