Roasted Potatoes To Change Your Life.
As an awkward adolescent I was many, many things.
I was the proud owner of many silk shirts. Purple being my favorite. Paisley vests too… they went over top of the shirts. It was nice. For the 80s and 90s.
An avid, obsessive fan of Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield. I may or may not have planned my entire life around theirs.
A spiral-bound notebook hoarder, in which I would write tons of tween novels involving porch swings and hidden lakes and boys named Todd who wore rolled-up jean shorts.
The owner or three consecutive horrific perms. I know I’ve told you this 8 billion times, but I’m gonna tell you again: my mom told someone I looked like Roseanne Barr with that hair. Uhh… pretty sure that is not a compliment.
Know what else I was? A potato lover. I was a PO-TA-TO freak. Loved ’em. I mean… really loved them. If you asked my 14-year old self what my favorite food was, I’d tell you potatoes. Back then I really only ate them mashed, baked with butter, salt and pepper, and in a casserole that my mom topped with potato chips… and they rocked my pubescent world.
Then again… what casserole with potato chips wouldn’t rock someone’s world? Really… did we really stop serving those?
So you know… I loved these potatoes until I ate a school lunch one day. Not even joking, it scarred me. I remember seeing ‘parsley potatoes’ marked on the coral-colored paper that my mom had sticky-tacked to one of the kitchen cabinet doors. Score one for me and my hideous hair! Potatoes for lunch… I hadn’t been this excited since tye-dyed fruit roll ups were invented.
Too bad they were the most disgusting food to ever cross my lips. True story. They were mealy and cold and flavorless and that parsley? Ugh. Add that to the list of green things I won’t touch with a 10-foot pole.
And that there ended my love affair with potatoes. A repulsive school lunch… a sad day. Eventually I started to love them again, but they’ve never topped my favorite-foods like they once did.
‘Til now.
When I shared my Instagram-obsessed weekend fun with you on Sunday, I included a lil’ pic of these potatoes that my uncle made. THEY WERE SO DARN DELICIOUS. I had to scream that. Otherwise you might not get the point. I made them yesterday because I couldn’t stand one more day without them. We had them with roast chicken… mmmmmm.
Hello potatoes… you complete me… again. Except this time my hair looks better.
Roasted Potatoes with Bacon, Gorgonzola, Cilantro and Other Stuff
Ingredients
- 3 pounds baby yukon gold potatoes, quartered or halved
- 2 slices of uncooked bacon, chopped (he used canadian bacon, I didn’t have that on hand)
- 1/2 vidalia onion, chopped
- 1 teaspoon olive oil
- 2-3 ounces of gorgonzola cheese, crumbled (you can sub cheddar if you don’t like blue)
- 3 tablespoons chopped chives
- 2 green onions, chopped
- 1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro
- 1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley
- salt and pepper
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil and spray with non-stick spray.
- Add potatoes and onions to a large bowl and drizzle with a teaspoon of olive oil (do not use more as the bacon will release fat when cooking) and a bit of salt and pepper. Toss with your hands and try to coat most of the potatoes. Lay them on the baking sheet and top with chopped bacon. Bake for 15 minutes, flip, and bake for 15 more. Flip one more time and cook for 15 minutes longer. Bacon should be crisp at this point.
- Remove potatoes from oven and immediately sprinkle on crumbled gorgonzola. Let potatoes sit and cool for 5 minutes, then top with chives, green onions, cilantro and parsley. Serve right off the baking sheet so you don’t lose any gooey cheese.
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Oh… to be a speck of parsley on that plate of deliciousness. [/donotprint]
181 Comments on “Roasted Potatoes To Change Your Life.”
Um wow! That looks incredible! :D
“Hello potatoes… you complete me… again. Except this time my hair looks better. “–
I have ALWAYS told you that you have phenomenal hair. I can only imagine your mother’s horror seeing you with THREE perms. I’d rather Skylar get tattoos and facial piercings than perm her hair. I am not even kidding :)
Back to the taters…ya know, I am just meh with potatoes. Give me chocolate over potatoes any day. Chocolate completes me But Scott, he would love you for this recipe.
And instagram. I became a junkie this weekend after seeing how COOL it is with the women in Mexico City that I was with. I even linked to my IG account in my last post! I love seeing your IG posts/pics :)
Haha I love your stories-so entertaining!!
Michelle
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Chives!? Potatoes!? BACON!? Oh my! :D
Simple but so perfect! Will definitely be making these for the potato-lovin’ future hubby.
I’m always looking for life changing potatoes. Mmmm.
Oh the wonderful years of Sweet Valley High… those were the days…
Cracking up over the comment about Rosanne!
I hate potatoes. weird eh? However, these look amazing. So amazing I might just crack and make them!! Also…when I first started scrolling thru the photos I was thinking “omg she put the crazy feta in them…how can I not make this.” haha
Okay, now THAT would be amazing. Please try it and report back.
oh I miss the days of Sweet Valley High, pretty sure I played the board game everyday!
ha! i just love that the title is change your life…so true :)
They look delicious! I’ve always had a love affair with potatoes – but when I was younger I would do mashed with butter – no gravy – baked with butter or Gramma’s scalloped potatoes. Now I will try to do whatever it takes to add more deliciousness to my potatoes, whether that be sour cream, cream cheese, herbs, more butter, any other type of cheese, more S+P, green beans…(those roasted potatoes were DELICIOUS), garlic, etc. I never really had a break up with potatoes, but we’ve definitely become more…spontaneous!
Good point – what ever happened to those potato chip casseroles? I feel a revival coming on…
My mom still makes a delicious one! Maybe I’ll post it, haha.
I am roaring after reading that Roseanne Barr comment!!!
Best looking taters ever! I can see the bacon and blue cheese being a wonderful combo!
Roseann Bar…. hahahahahah!
These look…amazing. Like everything a potato wants to grow up to be.
I recently read the new Sweet Valley Confidential book… #disappointing :(
I didn’t read it… good to know.
Bacon and Potatoes were meant to be together. Yum! I really need to make this!
My mom just made the most INCREDIBLE roasted potatoes ever a few days ago…yours look great as well! I will give the recipe a try, that’s for sure :)
We so could have been awkward adolescent friends:-)
Need to make these for my husband!
I’m a potato lover, and always have been. Though, I’ve never met a potato lover quite like my sister. That girl has never met a potato she doesn’t like. Her favorite pizza is baked potato pizza — slices of baked potato, bacon, chives, and sour cream. I admit, it’s tasty…but that’s just crazy!
These look delicious though! I’ll have to give them a try as soon as I have a kitchen. Well, without the cilantro, because I just happen to have that nasty little gene that makes cilantro taste like soap. Ick.
Has she had pierogi pizza? Shed probably love it!
You know, I’m not sure. I’ll have to bring that up…because let’s be honest. Anything that combines the words pierigi and pizza, I am MORE than down with!
Make this for her: http://www.howsweeteats.com/2010/10/perogi-pizza/. She will be in heaven.
Good GOD, how did I miss this???? I check your website daily…usually multiple times, haha! That recipe is most certainly going into the “make ASAP upon returning home to the States” folder. Thanks!
Okay, these look amazing. Must. Make. Soon.
And PERM STORY time. When I was 9, my Mom took me to Fantastic Sams (class-eee) to get a spiral perm. I did my chemically thing, and for some reason, it didn’t take on the top of my head. So we made an appointment to come back and redo JUST the top part of my head the next weekend. We went back and the woman said that she must do my whole head again and that it wouldn’t look bad. Let me tell you, two perms on top of each other is NOT a good look. Worst part, my school pictures were two days later. My crazy clown hair is forever immortalized on a purple laser background.
Okay… I’m sorry, I can’t stop laughing.
Potatoes with gorgonzola…I need to try that! I had a similar experience with peas after so many school lunches of the mushy, bland green stuff. Bleghhh!
I am also a potato loving girl! I could eat potatoes every day and never get tired of them. This recipe looks incredible, Jessica!
On- and thanks for the first laugh of the morning, as always! :-)
Oh spiral bound notebooks… I was a hoarder of them too! I swear, I wouldn’t even write in some of them them, I just liked to collect them! I’m still a stationery freak, but now rather than hearts and doodles about boys they contain far less interesting content like notes from conference calls and To-Do lists at work.. but if you flip to the back, you’ll probably find my grocery lists and brainstorms of potentially fabulous recipes ;)
I did the same! I just LOVE notebooks and stationary and writing utensils… heck, I still do.
did you read sweet valley confidential? it was terrible! i would have rather re-read my old stack of sweet valley twins!
I didn’t!!
I aso had a potato obsession.. potato fries, baked potatoes, breakfast potatoes… whats for dinner? Potatoes! :)
I spent so damn long not eating potatoes because I avoided “white foods”. Am I stupid for it? Yes. Do I now eat potatoes? Oh yes. Roasted, mashed with Irish butter, baked until the skin is nice and crisp? Hell yes.
Oh I love you. Kerrygold butter FTW!
Sounds like a traumatic school lunch! :(
This looks amazing. I rocked those silk shirts and vests too! Ugh!
I just know that you and I would have been friends. We could have worn matching lavalier necklaces and begged our parents for 1Bruce1 license plates.
Seriously. Do you remember the leggings with the lace on the bottom? They came in shorts AND leggings? Yeah… totally saw someone wearing those at Kennywood on Sunday. Like… a 35 year old woman.
We should probably try to be her friend too. Although she’d obviously be the Enid of the group.
True that.
Potatoes are pretty rocking. We have stuffed potatoes of various varieties for dinner on the regular. These look good. I know the man in my life would cheer for the bacon component. Growing up I always wanted a perm.
Sweet valley twins are the bomb… I laughed out loud when I read that. :)
This looks delish!
Sigh. Feed me now. Please.
Hey! I just had a potato chip casserole! My co-worker is from the upper part of Maryland and always says her and her family eat country people food, one of which is potato chip casserole. She invited me to her place and made it for me—it was so good! It was like chicken and cheese and stuff topped with potato chips. I liked it mucho! :)
I believe it was delicious, my mom still makes one that is SO good.
Yeahhhhhhhhhhh thank you for sharing!
I will be eating these!
I love this recipe! As for the 90’s fashion…um body suits! Yeah…how is I ever thought wearing a tight body suit with my negative a-cup chest and waist high jeans was cool is beyond me!
OMG! How did I forget body suits?! Remember trying to go to the bathroom with those on?? What a nightmare.
Sweet Valley High ruled my life when I was younger! Seriously, some of my favorites!
I’m just hoping there’s enough room for me to snuggle with those potatoes. I can squeeze in right next to that one piece of cilantro. No, the other piece. THEEEERE.
Deliciousness…
Um those look incredible. I’m like you I used to love all things potato…then somewhere down the line they just weren’t my favorite any more.
And purple silk shirt was too my fav. I even had matching paisley leggings. :)
Those sound sexy.
Love this! Also loved the Wakefields. And perms. What were we thinking?
I love roasted potatoes! I was also a victim of several bad perms in elementary school. I was also a victim of jumpers designed by Blossom, topped with a denim floppy hat. Stylin’… :)
Oh Blossom.
Roasted potatoes are a hands down fav. These look sooo good with the bacon and cilantro. I usually stick to rosemary when roasting, but I’m gonna need to try this now!
This is on my list of things to make asap. I’m not sure what the actual main course will be with these potatoes…maybe I don’t even need one!
I totally think they can be a meal.
Yum! I love roast potatoes in all their forms, will have to try this version :)
1. These sound delicious. Something about the bacon infusing its flavor into the potatoes as it all cooks together, and then letting the cheese melt from the residual heat so it’s all melty and creamy when you serve it makes this almost unbearably appetizing right now.
2. I LOVED the Sweet Valley High books! (I graduated to reading them after I made it through all 54732957 Babysitters Club books, of course.) I particularly enjoyed the uncanny appearance of not one, but TWO evil twins who tried to take over Elizabeth and Jessica’s lives. To this day, anyone named Margo is automatically mean and awful in my mind.
Bahahahah I forgot about that!!
These look really yummy and my husband looves roasted potatoes. Sadly, I am not a far of gorgonzola…is there anything I can replace it with that would be good?
Cheddar!
ah beautiful! thanks :)
lol you’d think i would read through the full recipe before asking…duh!
No prob! :)
Mmm, I love potatoes too. I made teeny tiny potatoes with feta and broccoli and so far they have been my favorite way to roast potatoes (http://www.confessionsofachocoholic.com/healthy/what-to-do-with-teeny-tiny-potatoes).
Have you read Sweet Valley Confidential?? It was recently released it’s the story of Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield now, when they’re already 27 years old. It brought me back to the Sweet Valley obsession of my youth ;)