Oven Roasted Potatoes

Oven Roasted Potatoes - diced potatoes tossed with Lawry's Seasoned Salt and garlic powder, roasted to make them tender on the outside and pleasantly crisp on the outside.

I don't know about you, but it seems like the only way this family ever eats potatoes is when I mash them.


Geez, let's live a little, people and go out of our box for a change!
Mashed potatoes are good and all, but variety is the spice of life.
Isn't it?
I mean, if I ate mashed potatoes whenever I made a meat dish, I'd be bored out of my GOURD!!
Get it, gourd. It's Fall. Fall reference?
And they rhyme. Bored. Gourd.
Or you can spell it this way...gored, but that is not what I'm referring to and that can be pretty disgusting.
But we're here to talk about potatoes!

I was thinking about preparing dinner last night and wanted to use up some ingredients that we have in the house, mainly the eggs and potatoes.
Light bulb moment ~ we'll have BREAKFAST for dinner!!
Yeah, not that we haven't ever done that before.
It's a regular occurrence around here, but mostly with pancakes.
So, I made scrambled eggs, cooked up some yummy bacon in a special way that everyone loved (so, will make it again very soon and post that recipe), and these, not mashed, potatoes.

Oven Roasted Potatoes - serves 4

Ingredients
5 small to medium potatoes
1 1/2 - 2 tablespoons olive oil
1 1/2 teaspoons Lawry's Seasoned Salt
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder

Directions Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.
Prepare a rimmed baking sheet by lining it with parchment paper.
In a medium bowl,  combine olive oil, Lawry's, and garlic powder. Mix until well combined.
Slice the potatoes lengthwise, turn the potatoes over 1/4 turn and then cut lengthwise again.
Cut the potatoes into one inch pieces and add to mixing bowl.
Toss to evenly coat.
Place onto prepared baking sheet into a single layer.
Bake for 15 minutes and remove from oven to gently toss.
Make sure potatoes are again in a single layer and return to oven to roast for an additional 30 minutes.

Slice the potatoes lengthwise (carefully, so you don't slice those little fingers - that'll hurt and we don't want any blood on the potatoes!) Hmmm....seems to be much talk about blood here today - gore, blood.
Ok, back to potatoes....
Then turn the potatoes and slice lengthwise again.

Slice potatoes again, so that the pieces are approximately one inch.
Add diced potatoes to mixing bowl and toss, making sure potatoes are evenly covered.

Serve!

I rate everything I make on a scale of 1-4 and these Oven Roasted Potatoes earned 3 1/2 rolling pins.
I think I would have left them in an additional 5-10 minutes to make them just a touch crisper, but the masses were begging for dinner.

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