25 MINS FOR SIDE DISH
A straightforward, time-tested, and pleasant side dish recipe is buttery potatoes.
These straightforward potatoes with butter take me back to my childhood. For a side dish to meatloaf, chicken, or even her skillet pork chops, Mama would cook these at least once every other week. It was undoubtedly a mainstay. And I was never bored with it. Not in the slightest.
However, there was one aspect of my mother's buttered potatoes that I never relished and found to be extremely tiresome: peeling.
Peeling the potatoes for boiling was always my responsibility. It seemed like I was peeling limitless amounts of potatoes to a young kid. I seemed to be peeling more than I was adding to the pile. The pile never seemed to get any smaller until Mama would arrive with her keen paring knife and peel more potatoes in a few minutes than I had been able to in all the time I had spent working on them. With my fingers still firmly grasping the peeler's handle, I vowed that when I was older, I would only peel as many potatoes as absolutely necessary. I have done everything in my power to uphold that commitment as well.
Consequently, I substituted my mother's huge white potatoes with
I make my buttered potatoes as shown here. Start your finger stretches now if you choose to use huge white potatoes, or ask your kids to help you like my mother did.
Recipe for Buttered Potatoes SIDE DISH — 25 MINS
2 pounds of cleaned and diced red potatoes with 1 tablespoon of olive oil and 1 teaspoon of salt.
4 teaspoons of butter
pepper and salt to taste
step 1
Instructions
Put the potatoes in a sizable stockpot and fill them with water. To season the water, mix salt and olive oil together. About 15 minutes after bringing the potatoes to a boil over medium heat, remove the potatoes from the flame.
step 2
Drain the water after removing it from the heat. Stir in the butter, salt, and pepper until completely mixed.
step 3 Serve hot
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