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Favorite potato recipes

My kids won't eat them unless they are in chip or fry form, but I love them in almost any incarnation. What's your go-to or favorite potato recipe?

I found this one on pioneerwoman.com. They are little crispy bits of potatoey heaven. It's become a new favorite. Here's the actual link:
http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2008/06/crash-hot-potatoes/

I highly recommend checking out the link, because the pictures of these potatoes when done are fab.

Crash Hot Potatoes

12 whole New Potatoes (or Other Small Round Potatoes)
3 Tablespoons Olive Oil
Kosher Salt To Taste
Black Pepper To Taste
Rosemary (or Other Herbs Of Choice) To Taste

Preparation Instructions

Bring a pot of salted water to a boil. Add in as many potatoes as you wish to make and cook them until they are fork-tender.

On a sheet pan, generously drizzle olive oil. Place tender potatoes on the cookie sheet leaving plenty of room between each potato.

With a potato masher, gently press down each potato until it slightly mashes, rotate the potato masher 90 degrees and mash again. Brush the tops of each crushed potato generously with more olive oil.

Sprinkle potatoes with kosher salt, fresh ground black pepper and fresh chopped rosemary (or chives or thyme or whatever herb you have available.)

Bake in a 450 degree oven for 20-25 minutes until golden brown.

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Permalink Reply by wookie on February 14, 2010 at 2:20pm

I love warm potato salads... I have a good bacon vinagarette dressing recipie somewhere (the German potato salad many might be familiar with), and also a butter/egg/sour cream/chive one that is amazing if I could only find the book it is in.

Regrettably, I seem to have taken on my grandmothers signature trait of approximating recipies and never writing anything down/looking things up.

Permalink Reply by Herasmus B. Dragon on February 14, 2010 at 2:29pm

Ooh, I'm doing that tomorrow!

It's not my favorite, but my most-often-cooked dish is simple. Cut white or red potatoes into 1/2 inch chunks, add to microwave safe casserole dish. Cover and cook for 15 minutes at 50% power. Add 1 tbsp butter, stir. Sprinkle with original Mrs. Dash. Cook uncovered 5 minutes at full power.

Permalink Reply by ks on February 14, 2010 at 3:16pm

Those potatoes sound absolutely wonderful. I love potatoes.

But, I'm kind of picky about how potatoes are prepared--there should only be salt, pepper, some kind of fat (preferably butter or fat from a pig, but olive oil is also good), herbs are okay, and maybe roasted garlic. Maybe. But nothing else. And they should be hot. So no cold potato salads, no potato soups or any sort, and never, ever, for the love of all that is holy and good in the world, never cheese.

I really like rosemary grilled potatoes (really similar to that, actually, but after boiling, instead of smashed, they are sliced thick, brushed with oil, salt, pepper, and rosemary, and then grilled until crispy) when the weather is nice and I want something relatively easy. But if I feel like being fussy and want something potato-y, I make Pommes Anna.

Permalink Reply by mightyninjamom on February 14, 2010 at 6:49pm

MMMM! That looks good! I'm definitely trying some of these.

There's a Cook's Country recipe for Potato Roesti that is really good. It's somewhere between a potato pancake and a hashbrown. It's incredibly good with a dollop of sour cream and a sprinkle of fresh chives.

ks said:

Those potatoes sound absolutely wonderful. I love potatoes.

But, I'm kind of picky about how potatoes are prepared--there should only be salt, pepper, some kind of fat (preferably butter or fat from a pig, but olive oil is also good), herbs are okay, and maybe roasted garlic. Maybe. But nothing else. And they should be hot. So no cold potato salads, no potato soups or any sort, and never, ever, for the love of all that is holy and good in the world, never cheese.

I really like rosemary grilled potatoes (really similar to that, actually, but after boiling, instead of smashed, they are sliced thick, brushed with oil, salt, pepper, and rosemary, and then grilled until crispy) when the weather is nice and I want something relatively easy. But if I feel like being fussy and want something potato-y, I make Pommes Anna.

Permalink Reply by Ylimemagic on February 14, 2010 at 8:57pm

"Crash Hot Potatoes" will be made tomorrow. They look divine. Pommes Anna will follow shortly after (with Earth Balance instead of butter). ;)

I'm happy to have some new potato inspiration. I love potatoes. We eat them mashed (with and without skins), baked (with and without skins), in soups, in eggs, roasted with veggies, with lots of garlic or onions. But as much as we eat them, I don't have a specific recipe I can point you towards. I just tend to make stuff up as I go. They are particularly good cooked until crispy with salt, pepper and yellow curry.

But, potato salad is on my top ten list of most abhorred foods. I can't stand the stuff. Blech. Potato salad will be one of those foods my kids will run across in college and have never encountered because it was never in their house. (I never ate broccoli until college because my mother hated it and refused to have it in the house.)

Permalink Reply by ks on February 19, 2010 at 2:14pm

Y-lime, you can make the Pommes Anna with olive oil. It isn't as good as butter, but it's still pretty damn good. And it's a lot better than margarine.

Ylimemagic said:

"Crash Hot Potatoes" will be made tomorrow. They look divine. Pommes Anna will follow shortly after (with Earth Balance instead of butter). ;)