Crash Hot Potatoes from Pioneer Women

This recipe is a favorite in our family.  We eat it all the time.  Just this last week we ate it twice.  I love getting new potatoes (baby reds) and making this dish with them.  My kids easily eat the entire pan.  All of my siblings love this recipe as well as their kids.  What amazes me is how easy the recipe is and how few ingredients you actually use.   This recipe comes from The Pioneer Woman.  This woman is the goddess of cooking warm and hearty dishes.  She rarely makes anything that isn't amazing.  When I look at potatoes now I actually crave these.  We love to eat them just as they are or with a bit of sour cream.  I promise once you make and try these you won't ever want to eat potatoes differently again.

Crash Hot Potatoes from The Pioneer Woman

 Ingredients

• 12 whole New Potatoes (or Other Small Round Potatoes)
• 3 Tablespoons Olive Oil
• Kosher Salt To Taste
• Black Pepper To Taste
• Rosemary (or Other Herbs Of Choice) To Taste

Preparation Instructions

Bring a pot of salted water to a boil. Add in as many potatoes as you wish to make and cook them until they are fork-tender.
On a sheet pan, generously drizzle olive oil. Place tender potatoes on the cookie sheet leaving plenty of room between each potato.
With a potato masher, gently press down each potato until it slightly mashes, rotate the potato masher 90 degrees and mash again. Brush the tops of each crushed potato generously with more olive oil.
Sprinkle potatoes with kosher salt, fresh ground black pepper and fresh chopped rosemary (or chives or thyme or whatever herb you have available.)
Bake in a 450 degree oven for 20-25 minutes until golden brown. Serves 6.

Note: The Pioneer Woman uses fresh rosemary.  I never have fresh so I just used dried and it still tastes amazing.  I also recently broke my potato masher so I just use a fork.  It causes the potatoes to smash down a little more but it also helps them get brown faster.

Recipe and Photo comes from the blog The Pioneer Women

Harvest Meat 'bulbs'

This recipe is an absolute favorite in our entire family.  We grew up eating it and now our children love this recipe.  This is one of my husband's favorite recipes.  He will come home and immediately knows what I have made because of the smell.  This meal is a great hearty meal with the sweet and sour combination.  The fruit may seem strange in it but it is one of my favorite parts of the dinner.  When Nectarines and peaches are ripe this dish becomes even more wonderful.. It reminds me so much of fall, but we eat it all year long because it is too good not to.  It is a true southern dish.   We hope this recipe will become a favorite in your home as much as it has been in ours.

Recipe and photo posted by Heidi G.


Harvest Meat 'bulbs'

Meatballs:
1 egg, beaten
¼ cup milk
1 slice bread, crumbled
¼ cup chopped onion or ½ tsp. onion powder
½ tsp. salt
¼ tsp. ground cinnamon
1 lb. ground beef

Mix ingredients well in bowl and form into golf ball size meatballs. Bake in oven, uncovered, at 350°F for 30 minutes, or microwave on HIGH for 13 minutes.

Rice:
In a saucepan combine:
1½ cup rice
3 cup chicken broth (or 3 cup water with 4 bouillon cubes)
¼ cup snipped parsley
½ tsp. ground cinnamon

Cover and simmer till rice is done

Fruit Mixture/Sauce:
In another saucepan:
Melt ½ cup butter or margarine
Add ½ cup brown sugar
Add 3-4 cups of desired fruit
(Fruit can be apples, nectarines, peaches, grapes (cut in half), or cantaloupe. Soft melons do not work well. Cut the fruit into small pieces (i.e. apples, nectarines, and peaches cut into quarters and then halved, cantaloupes cut into chunks, etc.).

Cook fruit mixture for 2 to 3 minutes.

Blend in separate bowl:
2 tablespoons cornstarch
½ cup cold water
½ cup lemon juice

Stir into fruit mixture. Cook until thick and bubbly.

Add meat balls to fruit mixture sauce and serve over rice.

YEILD: 4-5 servings.
 
Note: I always one and a half the sauce because it is so good!

To make this gluten-free just substitute the bread for gluten-free bread or even gluten-free oatmeal.  I always prefer the bread but either one works