TASTY POTATOES À LA BARBIE:
(yields 3 servings - or if you tend to eat like me, 1⅔)
- 4 medium-sized white or yellow potatoes
- olive oil
- fresh rosemary, lots of it
- fresh sage, thyme, and basil (dried will work too if you're not too fussed about that sort of thing)
- ground black pepper to taste
- sea salt to taste
- tinfoil!!
Slice up your potatoes into cubes or wedges of desired size, but try not to make them too huge or they will be cooking for days. Toss them in a bowl and pour enough olive oil to coat them generously overtop. Mix with your hands until they're all coated. Toss in some rosemary, sage, thyme, and basil until well-covered, use more if you're using dried or packaged herbs. Season with freshly ground black pepper and sea salt (don't be too heavy-handed, it's nice when the flavour seeps in but you can always add more after it's done.) Mix it all up with your hands until the seasonings are evenly distributed.
Cut three roughly equal pieces of tinfoil and set them shiny-side up. Spoon a third of your potatoes onto the middle of each, and arrange according to how you like your potatoes done: if you want them rather soft make a higher pile, so less of the potatoes are sitting in the oil; if you like them crispy, spread them out evenly over the surface. Top with more rosemary. Fold the tinfoil into a parcel: with the potatoes in the middle take the two long ends and lift them up to meet one-another, and then fold them over and over themselves into a type of roll along the middle so that the heat won't escape; finish by folding the bottom ends up one or two times.
On whatever side of the grill you're not cooking the meat on, turn the heat onto low (or off, if the other side is cooking on high) and place the parcels on the grill seam-side up. Cover your grill and cook for at least 30 minutes - really I kind of do whatever here but I find 45 minutes works for me. It will really depend on the size of the potatoes and the heat inside the grill for individual cook-time (I made mine all in one batch).
When removing the parcels from the grill be VERY FUCKING CAREFUL as those motherfuckers are HOT AS BALLS. Use a lifter-flipper-thing to get them onto a plate or a wooden cutting board, do not jeopardize your hands on a hot aluminum packet filled with oil (it's a gamble that no-one wins). Prior to opening the parcels puncture them a couple of times with a fork and let them sit for a few minutes to let the steam escape - when opening them, be very careful to do it with the end you're opening away from your face. Let the opened parcel of potatoes cool for a bit then transfer them to your plate, cover them with as much salt as you wish and enjoy!! Deleeeeeecious :9
RE: fresh herbs vs. dried/packaged ones - this is always up to your own preference but if you use fresh, the flavour payoff will be much more intense. Because they still have water in them fresh herbs will release their aromas as they cook, and in some cases start to fry in the oil itself, so you'll get a much stronger and smokier flavour. I also have kind of a love affair with rosemary so I think using fresh wherever you can makes for a much better dish all around. Mmm rosemary, some day I should just suck it up and write down my recipe for rack of lamb with fresh herbs in anchovy/white wine sauce........ (but alas, today is not that day)
/kitchen nerd
Also september means ~*~HURRICANE SEASON~*~ for eastern canada and true to form, we're already rolling out the red carpet for earl. One of my coworkers seriously went out and bought a generator today (and I almost considered doing the same but fuck it, I survived Juan, I can survive anything) and the tv keeps playing soft-news specials on how to "hurricane-proof" your home, like it's going to be some kind of category 3 monstrosity when it touches canadian soil.
Personally I'm not too worried. The biggest concern I have right now is how to survive this FUCKING HEAT WAVE of subtropic conditions that seems to be preceding the hurricane. No jokes today was 38 degrees celsius with the humidity and everything factored in (Americans, that's about 101F); I was outside in little more than a scrap of cotton and I honestly thought i was going to pass out on the curb. Last night I had to sleep on the bathroom floor because the tile is the only thing in this house that doesn't retain heat.
I know a lot of my American friends are like "101? suck it up princess" but I don't think you understand: THIS IS CANADA. When you think of Canada you think of the land of eternal snow and flannel and four hours of daylight and drinking whiskey by the fire just to keep the frost out of your bone marrow, and for the majority of the year that's pretty fucking true to life!! I honestly don't even know what to do with myself besides curl up with a freezie in a bathtub full of ice and cry a lot - though I guess crying would be counterproductive seeing as dehydration will only make the weather seem hotter.
Herp derp derp my first post in like four months is me bitching and talking about food derp.
(But hey, at least it's not another list!!)
Current Mood: jesus fucking christ i'm dying
Current Music: the little synth ditty the ff14 beta installer is playing - nice!!
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