{"id":4548,"date":"2022-03-18T17:21:09","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T17:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.malak.ca\/blog\/?p=4548"},"modified":"2024-12-22T00:18:11","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T00:18:11","slug":"making-roast-potatoes-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malak.ca\/blog\/index.php\/2022\/03\/18\/making-roast-potatoes-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Roast Potatoes — Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One of my mom’s perennial holiday dinner treats was her roast potatoes<\/a>, something I figured it was time to learn how to make. As such, I asked her how to do it — it is fairly easy — and adjusted the basic recipe<\/a> to two generous servings, which can be multiplied and adjusted according to the number of people to be served.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note that the recipe<\/a> as presented can be easily made in a countertop convection oven — as was the case in the following series of photos at the cottage — but there may be some minor variations when scaling up to larger amounts cooked in a conventional oven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Making the roast potatoes:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, the oven was pre-heated to 400F:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Oven preheated to 400F<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Oven preheating<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Water was poured into a pot:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Water poured into a pot<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Potatoes were taken out, in this case, about 400g or 3\/4lb to 1lb of potatoes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Potatoes taken out<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Potatoes weighed<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The potatoes were peeled:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Potatoes peeled<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Peeled potatoes were placed in the water:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Peeled potatoes placed in water<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Peeled potatoes placed in water<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Peeled potatoes placed in water<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Potato peels were collected, and in this case burned in the fireplace, since it was heating season:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Potato peels collected to place in the fireplace<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Peeled potatoes were taken out one by one to slice:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Peeled potato to be sliced<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Potatoes were sliced in half lengthwise:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Potato sliced in half lengthwise<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

… and then sliced into pieces:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Potato cut into pieces<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The potato pieces were placed back into the water:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Potato pieces placed back into water<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The rest of the potatoes were similarly cut up:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Potato pieces in water<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The water was drained from the potatoes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Water drained from potatoes<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

… and fresh water was poured in the pot to rinse the potatoes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fresh water poured into pot<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

A clean, dry towel was laid out on a cutting board:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Clean dry towel laid out<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The drained potatoes were placed on the clean dry towel:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Drained potatoes placed in dry towel<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The towel was folded over in order to pat dry the potatoes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Towel folded over to pat dry the potatoes<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Parchment paper was taken out:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Parchment paper taken out<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

An oven tray was taken out:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Oven tray taken out<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The parchment paper was placed on the oven tray:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Parchment paper placed on oven tray<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Margarine was taken out:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Margarine taken out<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The kitchen scale was set to zero with an empty spoon on it, and then margarine was weighed out:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Margarine weighed out<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

A bit of margarine was picked up with my fingers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Margarine picked up with fingers<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Pat dried potato pieces were picked up one at a time and slathered with margarine and placed on the oven tray:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Potato pieces picked up and slathered with margarine<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Potato pieces slathered with margarine and placed on baking tray<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Potato pieces slathered with margarine and placed on baking tray<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Potato pieces slathered with margarine and placed on baking tray<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

And as can be seen, the roughly 75g \/ 3oz of margarine were used up:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Measured out margarine used up<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Onion salt was taken out:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Onion salt taken out<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Onion salt was shaken somewhat liberally over the margarine covered potatoes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Onion salt shaken over the potatoes<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The timer on the oven was set to about 45 minutes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Oven timer set<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The tray of potatoes was placed in the oven:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tray of potatoes placed in oven<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Tray of potatoes in oven<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Here is a shot of the roasting potatoes after about 25 minutes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Partly roasted potatoes<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The potatoes were turned over at this point:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Potatoes turned over<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The potatoes were taken out just before 45 minutes, ready to eat:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Roast potatoes ready to eat<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

(Note that because of the excessive amount of parchment paper used, yes, I did have to deal with some burning parchment paper!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Supper is served!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Supper is served<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Yummy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of my mom’s perennial holiday dinner treats was her roast potatoes, something I figured it was time to learn how to make. As such, I asked her how to do it — it is fairly easy — and adjusted the basic recipe to two generous servings, which can be multiplied and adjusted according to … <\/p>\n

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