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Jean gave us WHAT? More potatoes? WOW! Potato salad here we come–2 pounds boiled new potatoes until tender, then mashed coarse with chopped sweet onion, cilantro, small bit of grilled red peppers (peeled–no burps, haha) diced fine, lemon juice, mayo, moutarde a l’ancienne (the one with speckles in it), little cornichons (if you like those little pickles) chopped fine, celery hearts, chopped fine, hardboiled eggs (1 or two), chopped fine, a teaspoon or two of good wine vinegar, salt and pepper and voila’.
Mama is a pommes de terre nut, always has been and having a neighbour who digs up hundreds of lovely little new potatoes twice a year is paradise.
Tonight she is boiling them until tender, then splitting them and grilling them on our barbeque just until they take on color and have a nice smoky taste.
Do you remember that choosing game, mama asked me, where you make a fist our of both hands and then count “One potato, two potatoes, three potatoes, four; five potatoes, six potatoes, seven potatoes more” and then on the “more” some little anthro is out of the game and puts his fist behind his back. Or maybe he or she is IN the game still, mama can’t remember. Google here we come…
Of course I don’t remember THAT! Whaddya nuts? We kitties don’t do such silly things and besides, it’s really hard to make a fist.
See what I mean? But all of this started with a plethora (whatever that is) of potatoes. Wish we could spread them around but they don’t travel too well…
The other recipe mama loves is Smashed Potatoes–cook little new potatoes until tender, then smash them with a mallet (not too hard now) and spoon olive oil, butter, garlic and fresh rosemary, chopped fine over each. Sprinkle with paprika and bake in a hot oven for 15 minutes. NUM!
SMASHING, NO?
My Mom wants to try making your momma’s recipe of “Smashed Potatoes.” If they taste as good as the image then she said tummies will be very pleased! Thanks fur sharing!
Oh potatoes! As long as it’s not a hot potato! Those smashed potatoes look mighty tasty…the mom says.
And easy peasy to make! Give it a try, the mom!
I have made smashed potatoes and I LOVE them!! If you don’t have a mallet, lots of other things can work too, like a 28 oz can of tomatoes, etc. lol
BRILLIANT, what a grand solution to no mallet! I suppose I could have flattened them by lying on each one forca few minutes, but mama was lukewarm on that idea…
OOOOOOH – totally smashing!!!!!! Mama LOVES those – maybe she’ll make some for me! I think in that first picture you’re doing a BB King imitation, non? You need a little electric guitar to make the picture complete. Or maybe a rock guitar – mama’s singing to me now – do the mashed potato, yea, yea , yea – horrible way to wake up – gonna go play with my Ikea pals….
Hey, pals from Ikea!! I have that mouse but he dosen’w know how to “mashed potatoe”…come over and we’ll DANCE.
Thank you for the recipes. I didn’t know peeling a pepper makes you not burp.
Well, it certainly helps alot and if they are grilled, the skins come off easily and the sugars in the peppers come out and I think that helps quell the burbs. Harold McGee ON FOOD AND COOKING is a great book for all of these things.
Oooooh LouLou ! Your mama creates such masterpieces because she has such fine ingredients to work with !
Well, that’s true, but alot of them come from our supermarkets, who also have great produce.
Well, now you’ve in big trouble! You made Jan hungry. She’s a bear when she’s hungry, so you better send your mama over here right away with some of those smashed taters. 🙂 Srsly, they do look tasty.
Hey, you guys, even Marcus could make those! Just find a potato source, and you can use parsley in place of rosemary but supermarkets have rosemary, I think, nowadays, or neighbors, haha.
Didn’t we tell you the other say to not show pictures of la cuisine here??
Well, I really do have to show them to make sure you really SEE how things should look before they get to your mouth. Sorry….