Welcome! I’ve been enjoying seeing what delicious recipes that have been linked to our ongoing Star Recipes Collection party from last week and look forward to trying them. It’s fun to see what types of recipes have been most popular on different Foodie blogs. If you have not had a chance to link up there yet, we’d love for you to come back soon to share your blog’s most popular recipe so far. (It can be accessed through the link above, our left sidebar, or Star Recipes page).

For this week’s potluck, I am sharing The Chef’s Whiskey-Glazed Carrots, which was one of our regular Saturday posts in February. It has been a popular recipe lately since sharing it at another potluck party, so I thought I’d let it shine a little bit more at our own event this week, too. I’m thinking it will move soon into our Number 5 spot of favorite recipes of our guests (see left sidebar). Here you go:

1.5 pounds of raw carrots (peeled and sliced into coins)
2 tablespoons brown sugar
2 tablespoons of butter (we use Earth Balance Soy free, Dairy free buttery spread)
1/2 ounce whiskey
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon oil

NOTE: It is imperative that you have all ingredients pre-measured and ready to use. You must move quickly and monitor heat to ensure that the pan does not get too hot. An overly hot pan will cause brown sugar and butter to burn and will ruin the dish.

Steam or boil raw carrots until tender. Drain and set aside to cool. Heat large non-stick skillet (I use a 12-inch skillet) over medium heat. As pan is warming to temperature, add butter and oil.

NOTE: If you add butter to an already hot pan it will immediately turn brown and result in a scalded taste and terrible appearance. By adding the small amount of oil, you increase the smoke point of the fat in the butter and further prevent burning.

Immediately after butter/oil mixture is melted, add brown sugar. Using the back of a wooden spoon, spread brown sugar evenly in the butter. Add whiskey. As soon as whiskey is added, the pan will sizzle loudly. Add carrots and toss in glaze. Season with salt and remove from pan immediately.

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And now, what are you bringing to this week’s potluck? Just a few brief reminders before you link-up:

1) There was a little confusion last week with two different linkies, and we did not have any free food offers (giveaways or coupon offers) for that party, so we’ll just have one this week and keep everything together. You can link a recipe or any type of food-related blog post (including giveaways or free food coupon offers).

2) Don’t forget to link back to this potluck party, using either a text link or the button image, and make sure it’s a the URL for the actual post and not your blog (or those intersted in what you are sharing may not be able to find it if it’s not your most recent post and will miss out on what you wanted to share!). This is especially important if you are linking your recipe or a great blog post and want it to be included in the index (see bottom of this post). I’ll make it really easy, as I know some of these details can be a little confusing:

This party’s URL for a text link:

http://www.thesaturdayeveningpot.com/2011/03/make-food-e-friend-monday-potluck-party.html

Button linking back to this week’s party (highlight, copy and paste into your post):

3) If this is your first visit for a Monday party, thank you for coming. If you would like or need more information about the party or how to link-up, please click here.

4) You have through Wednesday to link-up:

For an index of all previous recipes (or food-related blog posts, none shared as of yet) shared at previous Monday potluck parties, click here.

IMPORTANT NOTE: If you have linked a recipe in a previous party but do not see it listed in the index, please make sure you have linked back to the MaFF post where your recipe was linked, and if it was linked in the Star Recipes party, please make sure that it was one of your most popular recipes (very important for that particular party). If it was not, you should be able to delete your current recipe from that party and submit your most popular one. You are more than welcome to link the other recipe at a regular Monday party! You can e-mail The Lucky Wife at theluckywife {at} thesaturdayeveningpot.com once these minor corrections have been made and we’d love to add your recipe to the index.