Russets

Add 2 cups peeled, sliced apples Golden Russets are great if you can find them; slices should be about ¼-inch thick, 1½ cups unfiltered apple cider,1 cup white wine and 2 tablespoons minced sage and simmer, stirring occasionally, until liquid has reduced by more than half and the apples are tender and beginning to break down, 25-30 minutes.

Going Native Sarah Karnasiewicz 2011

Or: you can go my route and give the dark-fleshed, diminutive foul a nice crisping in a hot pan before a quick visit to the oven and dressing with cider-and-sage-stewed heirloom apples, such as crisp Golden or Roxbury Russets or sweet, juicy Baldwins.

Going Native Sarah Karnasiewicz 2011

It produced the first touchdown, a ball Russets receiver Cannon caught while turning around, seemingly with his eyes closed.

For football coach back from war, it's like starting over 2011

The stuffed potatoes were a little more involved (though not much): I simply scrubbed and pierced two Russets before baking them off at 375F for 50 minutes.

The Least I Could Do Sarah 2009

It produced the first touchdown, a ball Russets receiver Cannon caught while turning around, seemingly with his eyes closed.

For football coach back from war, it's like starting over 2011

The Russets, having trailed for most of the game, took the lead with 5:15 left in the fourth quarter, only to surrender it with 3:56 left: Idaho Falls 33, Shelley 32.

For football coach back from war, it's like starting over 2011

Richins faced the toughest schedule in the program's history; expectations that Shelley would win a championship in 2011 as it had in every odd-numbered year since 2003; and a home opener against neighboring Idaho Falls, a school twice Shelley's size that the Russets the team is named for a type of potato had never played.

For football coach back from war, it's like starting over 2011

The Russets, having trailed for most of the game, took the lead with 5:15 left in the fourth quarter, only to surrender it with 3:56 left: Idaho Falls 33, Shelley 32.

For football coach back from war, it's like starting over 2011

Richins faced the toughest schedule in the program's history; expectations that Shelley would win a championship in 2011 as it had in every odd-numbered year since 2003; and a home opener against neighboring Idaho Falls, a school twice Shelley's size that the Russets the team is named for a type of potato had never played.

For football coach back from war, it's like starting over 2011

The stuffed potatoes were a little more involved (though not much): I simply scrubbed and pierced two Russets before baking them off at 375F for 50 minutes.

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