How many times have we started dinner with what’s on hand, only to realize that we had nothing for to serve for dessert? And everyone wants dessert! If you have potatoes, you have dessert.

Leftover mashed potatoes can be combined with cream, sugar and spices to form a pie, almost like a custard pie. Add cheese, bacon, onions and garlic to mashed potatoes for a simple but very filling main dish, or serve with eggs for brunch.

Cottage pie, or shepherd’s pie, is an economical way to feed a family, yet it’s tasty and satisfying. Cottage pie or shepherd’s pie can be made with russets or sweet potatoes, depending on your family’s preference.

Of course, an all-time Thanksgiving favorite is sweet potato pie, which is especially delicious when maple syrup is used as part of the sweetener. This already scrumptious dessert can be made downright sinful with the addition of a maple pecan topping or a cream cheese base. For a warm weather dessert, make sweet potatoes into chiffon pie by blending them with whipped cream or whipped topping.

Potato pies, whether as a main dish or a dessert, can be made either in a healthy, reduced fat and calorie version, or as one to blow your entire week’s allotment of calories. One of the best things about potato pies is that they require no special cooking skills or training to prepare. Potato pie recipes are readily available online for any type of potato pie that you can think of, or dream up your own.

• Loaded Sweet Potato Pie Recipe
  The ultimate-favorite dessert sweet potato pie that’s filled with your favorite ingredients, sweet potatoes, cinnamon, nutmeg, milk and butter. This also includes the basic pie crust recipe.
• White Potato Pie Recipe
  If you want to have a Mounds candy-like dessert experience, you better try this recipe. This pie is sweet, starchy, creamy and sweet-smelling.
• Spiced Pork and Potato Pie Recipe
  Real savory potato pie that’s filled with minced pork, spices and mashed potatoes. It’s also flavored with the sweet smelling cinnamon and nutmeg.
• Salmon and Potato Pie Recipe
  A favorite French-Canadian dish that has been passed down from many generations. It’s a simple yet delicious pie that can be served with a béchamel sauce.
• Lamb Meat and Potato Pie Recipe
  Wonderfully baked and easy to make that’s more than enough to please your appetite. This pie is filled with lamb meat, tomato paste and carrots, topped with mashed potatoes and cheese.
• Fish and Potato pie Recipe
  An excellent pie that’s not only delicious but also healthy. Enjoy its delicious fish flavor and creamy filling and serve this either as your main dish or as a fulfilling dessert.
• Corned Beef and Potato Pie Recipe
  A potato pie that’s filled with the mixture of corned beef, mashed potatoes and onion. It has a nice pie crust that’s made manually using flour and butter.
• Cheese Potato Pie Recipe
  A perfect pastry dish for breakfast. The filling of this pie is super cheesy and very mouth watering.
• Mashed Potato Pie Recipe
  A wonderful pastry dish that can be made using leftover mashed potatoes. It’s not the ordinary potato pie because it’s filled with a lot of your favorite ingredients like bacon, cheese, sour cream, butter, and savory spices.
• Potato Pie Recipe
  Potato pie that can be served either as a main dish or dessert. Its yummy filling is made of starchy potatoes, cheese, ham and spices. Enjoy this delightful recipe!