Eat This! Salt Potatoes!

Apple Cake

This delectable Apple Cake has a slightly crunchy crust and a soft moist center that is loaded with chunks of sweet apple and pecans. It is perfectly spiced with cinnamon, ground cloves and nutmeg. It is lightly drizzled with an easy four ingredient caramel sauce. I make this cake several times each fall for bake sales, potlucks and family and friend get-togethers.

Easy Ratatouille

This easy ratatouille recipe is a classic summer French stew filled with vibrant, colourful and nutritious vegetables: tomatoes, zucchini and eggplant. It is a low-carb, gluten-free and vegan dish that can be made in one pan and served atop greens or grains, as a side to a main entrée, or all on its own.

4 Comments

catfeet on 1.8.2011

ITA with Sandyj. They have to be the small new potatoes in order to cook properly (some places these are only sold as gourmet – about an inch in diameter) and they aren’t complete without a dish of melted butter. You can make them with table salt, you simply need to add more in. I believe the recipe I’ve got calls for 6 q water & 4-5 C salt.

Both of my grandmothers used to make them – it was a summer and winter staple in the house holds I grew up in (it also helped that one set of g’parents were potato farmers in CNY) In New England, Price Chopper carries the pre-packed bags in the produce section.

sandyj on 11.29.2010

Oh, these are not just State Fair food – we make salt potatoes pretty often in the summer time. It’s more of a summer staple.

Salt potatoes are sold by the bag in the stores here in Syracuse with salt provided. It’s not regular table salt, but it’s also not the large chunky kosher salt. Perhaps it’s a finer kosher salt, I’m not sure (?) – it’s saltier than regular table salt is what I’m trying to say. We serve with just melted butter – yummy.

ALilBitofEverything on 11.21.2010

I should have elaborated a bit more. I made these potatoes expecting them to have a salty taste to them. They are quite tender, maybe that’s the benefit to cooking them this way? rather than for flavor? Is that how they are supposed to be, or did I maybe do something wrong?