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Garlic Smashed Potatoes

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When you are married to a German man, and he wants to eat potatoes every evening, or almost every evening, you start being creative on fixing those potatoes. I either use recipes from families, and friends, or make up my own. The recipe that I am presenting to you today was inspired by one that I had seen on pinterest.

I cannot recall which recipe it was, nor who posted it, but I wanted to share with you my twist on it. As it is easy as 1, 2, 3 and it is really delicious!!!!

Ingredients for 4:

  • a bag of small new potatoes
  • olive oil
  • sea salt
  • 2 tbsp of chopped parsley
  • 1 large clove of garlic or 2 small ones

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  1. Place the potatoes in the sink and with a small bruch, clean them well.IMG_3068
  2. Steam the potatoes for 6 minutes or until  they are somewhat cooked. I use my demarle cookware because it makes my life easy, but you can use any steamer to steam your potatoes.
  3. If using the demarle cookware, place the potatoes inside the large round mold and place the octagonal silpat on top of it. Place the round mold in the microwave and cook the potatoes for 6 minutes. They should be soft, but still firm.IMG_3072
  4. Now, it is time to smash your potatoes. Get a cookie sheet ready by placing a parchment paper, or if you are using a silpat, place the silpat on top of a perforated sheet. Take one potato and smash it with a palm of your hand. I use either a kitchen towel to protect my hand from the heat, or my octagonal silpat.IMG_3107 2IMG_3108 2
  5. Place the smash potato on the cookie sheet, or silpat and repeat until you have exhausted all potatoes.IMG_3074
  6. With a knife or  chopper, chop the parsley and the garlic very thinly. I used my Demarle chopper and it does a great job!!!In the demarle chopper, place 1/4 cup of olive oil, the garlic, fresh parsley and chop it all until you have a paste.IMG_3109 2
  7. Either with the brush or with a spoon, top each potato with the mixture. Then sprinkle some sea salt and black pepper.IMG_3075IMG_3110 2
  8. Place the potatoes into the oven at 400 and cook them for 15 minutes.IMG_3078

Enjoy!!!

( I don’t usually eat potatoes, but it was very hard to resist those, they were so yummy!!! The garlic gets crunchy, a true “delice”)

Parsley and Roasted Garlic Smashed Potatoes

  • Servings: 6-8
  • Difficulty: Super Easy
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Ingredients for 6-8:

  • a bag of small new potatoes
  • olive oil
  • sea salt
  • 2 tbsp of chopped parsley
  • 1 large clove of garlic or 2 small ones
  1. Place the potatoes in the sink and with a small bruch, clean them well.
  2. Steam the potatoes for 6 minutes or until they are somewhat cooked. I use my demarle cookware because it makes my life easy, but you can use any steamer to steam your potatoes.
    If using the demarle cookware, place the potatoes inside the large round mold and place the octagonal silpat on top of it. Place the round mold in the microwave and cook the potatoes for 6 minutes. They should be soft, but still firm.
  3. Now, it is time to smash your potatoes. Get a cookie sheet ready by placing a parchment paper, or if you are using a silpat, place the silpat on top of a perforated sheet.
  4. Take one potato and smash it with a palm of your hand. I use either a kitchen towel to protect my hand from the heat, or my octagonal silpat.
  5. Place the smash potato on the cookie sheet, or silpat and repeat until you have exhausted all potatoes.
  6. With a knife or chopper, chop the parsley and the garlic very thinly. I used my Demarle chopper and it does a great job!!!In the demarle chopper, place 1/4 cup of olive oil, the garlic, fresh parsley and chop it all until you have a paste.
  7. Either with the brush or with a spoon, top each potato with the mixture. Then sprinkle some sea salt and black pepper.
  8. Place the potatoes into the oven at 400 and cook them for 15 minutes.
    Enjoy!!!

( I don’t usually eat potatoes, but it was very hard to resist those, they were so yummy!!! The garlic gets crunchy, a true “delice”)

Bon Appetit and Happy Cooking!!!

Tomatoes a la Provencale

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Hello readers, and everyone else. How are you?? I know, I know it has been a while. It is crazy how time passes and how I find it difficult to write my recipes and share them with you. Contrary to my lack of posts, I have been cooking. But my family and I have had so much family visiting recently that it is difficult to find time to allocate to my blog.

Any way here I am. Before you will have no more tomatoes in your backyard, I wanted to share this yummy and very very easy recipe of Tomates Provencales.

There are a million recipes out there, but really the best part of this recipe, is that you can pretty much use all that you have in your  cabinets to flavor those tomatoes.

Indeed, the recipe calls for Bread crumbs, but you can substitute it with crackers, or bagel chips that you would have crushed. One day, I even used some white cheddar cheez-it because I did not have any more bread crumbs.

  • Ingredients for 4-6 people:
    1-2 tomatoes per person, so about 8,
  • 1/4 cup of italian bread crumbs,
  • 1/2 cup of grated parmesan,
  • 1 tbsp of garlic salt.
  • 1 tsp of rosemary thyme seasoning from demarle
  1. Place all the dry ingredients into a small bowl and mix well.IMG_2667
  2. Cut the roma tomatoes in half.IMG_2666
  3. Place them into a flexipan or a large round.
  4. Sprinkle the bread mixture over the top of the tomatoes.IMG_2668
  5. Drizlle some olive oil to wet the bread crumbs
  6. Bake the tomatoes for 15-20 minutes.IMG_2671

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Bon Appetit and Happy Cooking!!!

Easy Pan Sauteed Potatoes

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Whoah.. I cannot believe that it has been several months since I wrote or posted something. I apologize!!! Life has been busy … I am certain that it has been the same on your side of the world. Well one of the benefits of being a teacher, is that you have several weeks off in the summer. This allows me to do all the things that I have been wanting to do, but did not find the time to…

One of them has been sleeping a bit later, and the other one has been to write my recipes so here it is.

Today the recipe will be very simple, and very quick. I will serve as a side, and I hope that you will enjoy it.

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Ingredients for 4: 

  • 6 medium-sized or 8 small Yukon Gold
  • 1 cloves of garlic pressed
  • 1 tsp of fresh chopped parsley
  • salt
  • pepper
  • 2 tbsp of butter ( or goose, or duck fat)
  1. Peel the potatoes, cut the potatoes in slim slices,  and steam them. You can steam them however you can ( in a microwable bag, a steamer) until they are steamed, but they are still firm. If you have some of the Demarle cookware, place the potatoes into the large round mold, that you would have placed on a plate. Cover the large round mold with the octogonal silpat and microwave the potatoes for 6 minutes.
  2. Carefully lift off the octogonal silpat to let the steam out. IMG_1750
  3. Meanwhile, in a large frying pan, warm up 2 tbsp of duck/ goose fat or butter until it is sizzling.IMG_1752
  4. Add the potatoes, and cook them over a medium high stove. Let them cook a bit ( 1-2 minutes) before flipping them.
  5. And continue the process until the potatoes are the texture that you want.
  6. When the potatoes are cooked, add the chopped parsley and garlic and stir.IMG_1753
  7. Season with salt and pepper and serve warm.

Bon Appetit and Happy Cooking!!!

Simple Pan Sauteed Potatoes

  • Servings: 4 people
  • Difficulty: Super Easy
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Ingredients for 4:

  • 6 medium-sized or 8 small Yukon Gold
  • 1 cloves of garlic pressed
  • 1 tsp of fresh chopped parsley
  • salt
  • pepper
  • 2 tbsp of butter ( or goose, or duck fat)
  1. Peel the potatoes, cut them in slim slices, and steam them. You can steam them however you can ( in a microwable bag, a steamer) until they are steamed, but they are still firm. If you have some of the Demarle cookware, place the potatoes into the large round mold, that you would have placed on a plate. Cover the large round mold with the octogonal silpat and microwave the potatoes for 6 minutes.
  2. Carefully lift off the octogonal silpat to release the steam.
  3. Meanwhile, in a large frying pan, warm up 2 tbsp of duck/ goose fat or butter until it is sizzling.
  4. Add the potatoes and cook them over a medium high stove. Let them cook a bit ( 1-2 minutes) before flipping them.
  5. And continue the process until the potatoes are the texture that you want.
  6. When the potatoes are cooked, add the chopped parsley and garlic and stir.
  7. Season with salt and pepper and serve warm.

Bon Appetit and Happy Cooking!!!