Cathy Z...I made the parsley potatoes on Saturday, and everyone just raved about them...

dawn_mo

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they were so easy to make and just wonderful. Thanks for posting such a great recipe!

THANKSGIVING PARSLEY LEAF POTATOES

Gourmet Nov 2003

3/4 stick (6T) unsalted butter, melted

8 Russet potatoes, scrubbed

16 fresh flat-leaf parsley leaves

Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 450 degrees. Pour butter into large shallow baking pan (1" deep) and tilt to coat bottom. Working with 1 potato at a time, halve potatoes lengthwise, then put a parsley leaf on cut side of each potato half and season with salt. Put potatoes, cut sides down, in baking pan and roast (do NOT turn over) until undersides are golden and potatoes are tender, 45 minutes.

 
LOL tonight we had orange sweet potatoes from the garden and I did the same with them...thanx for a

great idea. They were just super plated with the steak, Asian beans and roasted garlic and red onion.

 
LOL- we had red potatoes made this way last night. I love the sweet potato idea- will try it next

 
As they keep coming from the garden I don't have ......

the urge to buy other types of tats so I am going to play with the idea and use cilantro leaves next....wondering how that will turn out.
Also thought a sliver of garlic next to the leaf????
When roasting the tats I always roast garlic in their skins and sprinkle rosemary and course salt over the lot and then squeeze lime juice over when ready to serve...so poss a wee sprig of the top of the rosemary bush could look great too.....I love the orange colour of the tat with the green of the leaf.

 
Joanie, that sounds wonderful.

I will definitely try your roasted sweet potatoes with garlic, herb, and lime. That sounds really good.

I've used cilantro with sweet potatoes before and it was really good. Although I pureed the baked tats, then stirred in sour cream, cilantro, butter, salt and pepper, garlic, and adobo chilies and baked it to brown a crust on the dish. I'm liking your addition of lime and I think I'll add that next time I make this.

I just made an old Kentucky recipe for Bourbon Sweet Potatoes if you're interested in another recipe for your tats. It's on the sweet side for a side dish.

 
And where do you get the soil to grow root vegetables? I'm guessing that's not a volcanic island?

 
Thanks Richard...sounds a bit sweet for us....I 1/4 the tats sometimes with the skin .....

still on and then rollthem in oil. Since roasting with a leaf I don't turn them but if they look dry I spoon a little more oil over them...red onions 1/4'd along side adds to it all.
If the kids aren't here I sprinkle some pepper flakes with the lime juice.
and If I don't use rosemary then I use chopped cilantro as a garnish....It's Cathy's idea of the leaf roasting under it that makes the presentation great.

 
The garden it'self is about an acre of wind, shale, clay and.....

struggling palm trees on a steep slope.
I excavated the veg area away from the wind and ended with a large bed of clayie shale. Fruit trees don't seem to mind if I make a large built up hole and fill it with grower's medium and sieved soil.
The veg patch is growing as I build stone walls (a sort of raised garden)and fill with grower's medium turned with the soil that has been sieved. I am also getting quite a lot of excellent compost (for here) from the leaves of ficus and chopped up palm leaves along with household stuff...it is amazing how much one can save for compost.
Then I tried the layering technique by putting a layer of news paper (in a walled off section about 7 x 14 and covered this with sieved soil, then compost, then sieved soil and 2'ce turned it with growers medium. Finally I planted some orange sweet potatoes and guess what...they produce all the time bigger and better each year. Last year as they seemed to be getting less I planted lots of peanuts, these did well and this year even more sweet potatoes?????
These veg are a new growing experience for me....

Now if only I could get help with the roses which have done an awful number on me, and the arugula seems bent on doing the same...the leaves have all gone most odd. I am putting it down to the volcanic ash that kept our skies quite grey for most of last week....now the skies are clear and the bushes are all grey and dusty.

 
Joanie, the peanuts (and any peas or beans) will enrich the soil with nitrogen for other crops...

if you're wondering why the potatoes did better with the peanuts. I started a garden this year--it's a plot in a community garden on an abandoned railroad site. The soil is SO bad, but the peas did well and so did everything next to them.

 
I always thot roses had trouble growing in that heat. Sounds like a productive

venture. I forgot about composting. I do the same and love the results.

Oh to have a 1 acre garden!

 
Lol, that sounds like a great project...there is no way peas.....

would grow in this heat however they have a small shrub like plant that grows "peas", these are pigeon peas and I have a few plants but they are so full of bugs always...I am going to concentrate on getting this right next season after I've got the beds A OK for the crops I love.

 
No, No, No...there is no way....

I can garden all this space here, don't wish for a large garden, small container sort of space is so good.......the water bills are killing and we haven't had rain for over a month here where I live.
What I have done is make these raised beds near the grey water spill off....4 tanks and then a long pipe with holes. It appears to work fairly well for deep rooted plants, then, I built a duck pond.
My father, in Africa, was a keen "liquid manure" believer. This is dried chicken manure suspended in a tin drum in an old hessian sack and kept submerged in water for how ever long, then the liquid used...so I took this idea and made this duck pond (yes, I have ducks, this is a very new venture, silly me) ...after a month I started siphoning off the water then topping up the pond again...After the siphoning, by hose along the sides of the beans, eggplant other veg etc, I then turn on the sprinkler and WOW what a difference to the veg.
It's still the roses I can't seem to figure out.
They grew fine, if very leggy, 'neath a tree so I moved them to a sunnier spot...I'm thinking this was a BAD idea.
Oh, Well.

 
Indeed. Forget the roses. You can't have it all. I know those water bills. Yikes! They are

killers.

I miss my little duckie that survived Ivan. I looked after him for 6 months so that he would not become crazy all alone. And on Mothers' Day (believe it or not) a lady arrived on the lagoon to keep him 'company'...wink-wink. Within 4 weeks there was a nest full of eggs; then Tropical Storm Annette arrived and the nest went sailing away.

Why do we feel the need to capitalize the names of these demons?

Anyway, don't try to beat Guiness and make a beautiful rose garden way down there. They need a cool winter and I wouldn't wish that on you.

 
Marge, You're funny. I'm coming up to you next winter! stopping at ALL winter Swapizens on the way!

 
LOL...

one of those hot and windy islands in the Caribbean.
We do move around a bit, not as much as before but get to all French, Dutch and English islands....I have a wealth of foods to cook with. Having so much fun with it all.

 
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