Okay, it was time for dinner and mind you, I need to grocery shopping, YOU SHOULD SEE MY EMPTY CABINETS. I needed a side dish and didn't really know what to make. I had a bag of all purpose potatoes so they are not really the Baked Potato kind. So I decided to make some Garlic & Herbed potatoes in the oven.
This is what I did, but you can always make less/more and adjust any ingredients or amounts.
I USED:
6 medium sized potatoes
1/4 cup Canola Oil but you can use Olive Oil. These 2 are "Good Fats" and are great when trying to lose stomach fluff, like myself. SMILE!
6 fresh garlic cloves
Salt
Fresh Cracked Black Pepper in my pepper mill
Dried Parsley
Dried Basil
I pre-heated my oven to 350 & grabbed a casserole dish. I washed then cut all of the potatoes in half, then half again. So I had 4 sticks per potato. Then I sliced them about 1/4 inch thick. But you can cut them up however you like. I left the skins on but you can peel them off if you like. I rinsed them again just to make sure they were clean. I put them in the casserole dish. I added the Canola Oil, the freshly minced/microplaned garlic, about 1 Tbsp salt, about 10 or so turns of the pepper mill, about 1 tbsp of each of the dried parsley and dried basil. I mixed everything right in the casserole dish so no extra dirty dishes. I cooked them in the oven until done which was like 40 minutes. But if you want crispy or brownish potatoes, just leave them in until you like how they look.
I must say that I really liked how they turned out. The garlic and herbs were not overpowering at all, subtle flavor but good. I will definately make these again, probably with more of the salt, pepper, garlic, basil and parsley.
