This is for [livejournal.com profile] sgrio. Well, the potatoes are for her - the bonus meal at the end is for something else entirely. Crispies is an uninspired name, but I came up with this recipe.... I don't know. I was eight or nine years old? It's not a very inspired age. The recipe, though, has stood the test of time.

When I was a young child, my mother would, once in a blue moon, make homemade fried potatoes. My brother and I adored them. However, homemade chips are time consuming, unhealthy, and run a high burn risk if you don't own a deep frier. So, I set out to make a healthier, more efficient chip.


Ingredients:
Potatoes (many)
Two teaspoons olive oil

Directions:

Wash potatoes. Chop into bite sized pieces. Put in bowl & toss with olive oil. Arrange on oiled cookie sheet. Bake at 325 F until crisp and golden brown.

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Really simple, right? Delicious! You can add to this to fit any meal. I recently did up a pot roast and made crispies but tossed some garlic salt and rosemary in with the olive oil. As the potatoes were browning, I added thin slices of sweet bell pepper (also tossed with oil, rosemary, and garlic). It was great. I've done up yams with oil and cinnamon. Sliced tomatoes added in at the last minute are a great early fall addition.

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Pot Roast

1 chuck roast, cut in half
Two cups beef broth
Rosemary (two tbs)
Garlic (3 cloves)
Onion powder (or one half onion, chopped)
Dill seeds (1 tsp)
Thyme (2 tsp)
Bay leaf (to taste)
Oven bag

Set oven to 350 F. Trim fat from roast. Put chuck roast in the (large) oven bag. Pour in warm beef broth. Add spices. Add a splash of lemon juice if desired. Baked for 2 - 2.5 hours. Serve piping hot. Use spiced broth (from the oven bag) as gravy.

Serve with rosemary-garlic crispies (or cinnamon yam crispies) and mapled carrots.

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Stay tuned! Tomorrow night I will show you how to turn that boring left over pot roast into a delicious chili!

Additionally, would anyone be interested in rosemary-chile chicken soup / how to make brownies-from-a-box taste homemade?
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From: [identity profile] optimus-life.livejournal.com


More please! I'm all for easy to make food, not that I can't cook. I can but we lack the funds and time for big,fancy,complex recipies.
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From: [identity profile] chasingtides.livejournal.com


I will definitely post the chicken soup recipe and the brownie recipe. The chicken soup is basically how to get extra meals out of a bird (I find that buying a whole bird and using *everything* on it is cheaper than buying bits of chicken) and the brownies... well, I find I can buy a dollar box of brownie mix and make it taste like the fancy expensive ones. I will show you how!

From: [identity profile] optimus-life.livejournal.com


Oh yeah I always get whole birds as often as I can because it saves me money in the long run. Thanks.

From: [identity profile] extria.livejournal.com


Your recipes always make me so so happy (and hungry!) can't wait to get home from college and attempt the crispies.

From: [identity profile] tamerterra.livejournal.com


Hee! The amazing thing? My boyfriend's mum showed me the chips thing yesterday - except with oregano and lazy garlic in the oil. ^_^
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From: [identity profile] azdaja-dafema.livejournal.com


Roast potatoes are gorgeous, especially when bitesize. So are pot roasts: I practically grew up on casseroles and the like so loved seeing these online :D
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