Good Eating Tuesday: Herby Slow Cooker Baby Potatoes

-
Bacause it was raining this past Friday, I cooked in for our weekly Friday company: baked boneless chicken thighs, Green Giant Steamer Tuscan Broccoli and Herby Slow Cooker Baby Potatoes, since I could use convenient herbs growing outside.

For great boneless baked chicken thighs, I like to use instant potato flakes:
Season the pile of instant potato flakes on a plate with salt, pepper and whatever other seasoning you like: rosemary, Italian herbs, garlic powder, etc.
Coat the chicken thighs in the seasoned flakes, place in a oil sprayed baking pan with their smooth outer side down first and bake in 400 to 425 degree oven for 15 to 20 minutes.
Then turn thighs over with fork and return to oven. (if I have leftover seasoned flakes, sprinkle tops of the side just turned up)  Bake another 20 to 30 minutes until thighs are pretty golden brown. 
The potato flakes make the thighs super moist.

The Herby Baby Potatoes in a slow cooker is simple, but the original recipe left them whole.
 Over and over I find leaving them whole in these recipe doesn't result in the most tender baby potatoes, so I recommend cutting them in half.
 It just makes them cook more effectively. 
(I forgot to take a picture, so the photo is the Pinterest photo)

Herby Slow Cooker Baby Potatoes
Ingredients
2 packages of baby potatoes cut in half
2 Tablespoons olive oil
2 to 3 garlic cloves, crushed
4 Tablespoons butter, cubed
1 Tablespoon fresh minced parsley
2  to 3 teaspoons fresh chives, chopped
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper

Herb alternatives:
Use a Tablespoon each of chopped fresh Rosemary and Thyme plus Parsley. (This is what I used.)
You may also use dried herbs, but use less: just a teaspoon each of dried parsley, dried chives or anything dried, because the flavor of dried herbs is more potent.
A teaspoon or two of just Herbes de province might be tasty!

Directions:
Add halved baby potatoes to slow cooker, then add olive oil, crushed garlic and herbs. Toss potatoes to coat, then scatter butter cubes over top. Cover with lid and set to LOW to cook around 6 hours; use HIGH if you want them to be done in around for 4.
My slow cooker has a "Warm" setting I can turn it to if things are done ahead of serving time.

Comments

Post a Comment

Thanks for leaving a comment!

Popular posts from this blog

Good Eating Monday: Apple Cranberry Sausage Stuffing!

-
Image
Now this some wicked good dressing!  I tried it for Thanksgiving this year and everyone loved it! I've been looking for just the right dressing and I may have finally found it!  It's also healthy with a tasty combo of fruit, veggies and a mix of white & whole wheat bakery breads. It will fill a  fill a 9 x 13 pan.  You can use fresh or dried herbs. I've included the measurements for both. Just remember dried seasoning is more concentrated in flavor because it is dried, so you need less of it then fresh herbs. I have fresh Parsley growing outside and this was a great use for it! I found leftover over stuffing wonderful heated up and topped with a over-easy egg for lunch!  Apple Cranberry Sausage Stuffing Ingredients:  5 1/2 cups fresh European style or sourdough bread, white, sliced and cubed 2 1/2 cups wheat bread, whole grain sliced and cubed 1 lb ground pork or turkey ( I used Jimmy Dean's Turkey Crumbles, which was 8 oz and that worked great! ) 1 1/2
Read more

Good Eating Monday: Peach Cobbler Dump Cake!

-
Image
Yes, I tried another new Pinterest recipe and this one is a winner! The primary dictionary definition of a "Dump Cake," is an easily made cobbler in which cake mix is dumped over canned fruit or pie filling.  This recipe was pinned from Del Monte, which means it's been a recipe that's been created & tested in a corporate test kitchen. That's one benefit of all those label, can & box recipes provided by manufacturers on their product packaging. You can even buy cookbooks featuring nothing, but package & label recipes of which many are vintage. The only changes I'd suggest is add one more 15 oz can of fruit. It can be more peaches, cherry fruit cocktail, regular fruit cocktail or whatever you want. (So, I've noted 4 cans of peaches in the recipe.)   It just needs a little more volume on the fruit quantity.  And stir a teaspoon or two of cinnamon into the fruit! Otherwise, this is an excellent, quick dessert you can serve hot with v
Read more

Good Eating Monday: Old Fashioned Cinnamon Raisin Bread Pudding!

-
Image
Welcome to the first week of February! It's supposed to be 31 degrees tonight, so after cleaning up the front walk beds, I went around covering various things that either are blooming, about to bloom or that have sensitive leaf buds, like my hydrangea's.  I picked all the yellow daffodils and brought them inside for a cheerful vase on my counter. For Garden Pic Wednesday this week I have an excellent photo of a pine tree flower! You didn't know pine trees flower?  Well, you'll have to stop back for a look! Today's Good Eating Recipe is a family favorite my Mother used to make often for us as kids: Old Fashioned Cinnamon Raisin Bread Pudding! What Old Fashioned Cinnamon Raisin Bread Pudding Looks Like This is just your basic wholesome old fashioned bread pudding made with just eggs, bread, milk, vanilla, cinnamon, sugar & raisins! No sauces to make. Just simple bread pudding. We'd eat it hot with a little evaporated milk poured over the top.
Read more

Garden Pic Wednesday: Ajuga & Lettuce Crop

-
Image
T oday's Garden Pic is a nice January shot of some Common Ajuga draping over the edge of a large container out front & my bumper crop of lettuce Ajuga: It's a ground cover with a burgundy tinge to it's leaves. It reaches it's best color in shade, but can tolerate light sun. This Ajuga just gets morning sun. It throws runners like a strawberry does, spreading along the ground. It's reaching for the ground and will establish once it touches around the shady side of the stump the container sits on. It's a member of the mint family.  My Winter Crop of Lettuce: This is a french head lettuce I got ordered from Seed Savers for spring 2021. It went to seed in May 2021, then dozens popped up around Sept. I separated them, this whole 4 x 8 raised bed with them. I dined on fresh crisp lettuce all winter! I've left 2 to go to seed on one end of the raised bed, so can have lettuce all winter again!  I've joined a group a ladies in a Book Club that meets once a mo
Read more