Rosemary and Garlic Red potatoes

This is a great snack!  IT is perfect for when you are trying to get work done and need food, but dont have time.  It takes about 15 min of prep and then cooks for an hour (where you can get work or cleaning the house or go for a jog or get dressed for the party).  It is also a  really great crowd pleaser when you have company over, particularly due to its aromatic nature.  About 20 minutes into baking your house will be filled with the savory aroma of garlic and the botanic deliciousness of rosemary!


Here is what you need (to feed 2-4 as an appetizer)

4 good sized red potatoes
2 Tbs Apple Cider vinegar (white or red will work too)
1 Tbs Salt
3 Cloves minced garlic (about 2 tsp)
1 tsp pepper
2 tsp muddled rosemary  (muddled = a fancy way of saying grind it or smash it a bit)
1/2 Tbs oil

an oven at 400 oF
a nice heavy roasting pan

15 min prep time
45-60 min cook time


simple version: dice potatoes toss with ingredients roast at 400 F for 45 min turning them once after 25 min.

The details: One of the most important things to having a nice batch of roasted potatoes is similar cube size.  If some are too big they wont cook the whole way, if some are too small the will burn.  So take some time and practice cutting cubes that are about the same size.  Mine come out to be about half inch cubes but anywhere in the 1/2 in to 1in size would have been fine.

I rinse the potatoes twice with cold water tossing out the water before I toss them in the spices.  Rinsing will remove some of the starch which will keep them from sticking to the pan as much and help them get a nice golden brown.

Add all of the spices and then the vinegar. I spend 3-5 minutes tossing the potatoes in the vinegar, usually using a spoon to grab the liquid from the bottom and pouring it over the tops followed by a few mixes.

Use about 1/Tbs of oil to coat your roasting pan then lay your potatoes out in there (with as little of the vinegar soak as possible but as much of the spices as possible)

Put them in the over, Set a timer for 25 min.  After 25 min use a spatula to give them a bit of a stir flip and then back into the over for 25 more min.

Out they pop and you got a delicious snack/side dish!  I made an avocado sauce (which is slightly different than guacamole) to have with my potatoes!

Back into it?

The last two years have been a big shift in how I eat.  I moved from a community where eight of us gathered around a table for a "family" dinner four nights a week to essentially living alone and cooking for myself.  My interest in presentation and novelty went WAY WAY down.  My new job was also incredibly taxing for that first year and created a lack of time to make food that I wanted to share with all of you.

Then i realized. . . this is how most of us live.  Trying to get food in between work and sleep enjoying what we have while not having much time to get it.  Sometimes that means we eat out a lot (which includes "ordering in") but in my new town I have found a shocking lack of restaurants that excite me.  This means I have still been cooking at home a lot but I dont feel like I am making the grandiose meals that I would call "dinner" or lunch. . . I feel like I am snacking most the time.  

I've learned a lot about how to cook and eat with much less time for both and I am going to try to reinvigorate this blog as a place to share that information.  Ill need your encouragement (and pestering though) because it is easy to get caught up in daytime work and night time work and missing the stack of books I want to read.  So if you see me mention something and want the full run down tell me, If you run into a culinary problem in your life send it my way and lets make up solutions, or if you notice I have not posted in a bit remind me that sharing food is really what I love and this is a way to share!  

Ill be posting my rosemary red potatoes later today so keep an eye out for that.  

Until then,  Keep eating!