Pickle brine is an incredibly useful scrap. Once you start using it—in potato salad!—you might find yourself running out of brine before the jar of pickles.
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Chris Prosperi’s Quick and Easy Tomato-Chicken Soup
This quick soup, one of Chris’s go-tos on a snowy day, uses a genius shortcut ingredient: tomato sauce, but a few plum tomatoes keep the flavor fresh. Chris’s favorite mini pasta, ditalini, adds the umph to make it a meal.
Chris Prosperi’s Crispy Skillet Loaded Smashed Potatoes
Chef Chris Prosperi knows his way around a potato. His latest recipe is a “mash up” of a loaded baked potato and smashed potatoes. You can take them as far as you’d like. Smash a little for lumpy potatoes or keep at it, cooking and scrapping, for a smoother, creamier mash.
