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MellonBrush Rosemary Potatos:

2 large baking potatos
1/4 cup canola oil
3 sprigs of Rosemary
Dash of salt and pepper.

Peel potatoes and cut in half lengthwise. Cross cut 1/2" pieces, shaped like half circles.

Put cut potatos in mixing bowl and add the oil, stirring until they are coated.

Dice the fresh Rosemary

Spread the potatos out in a large pyrex baking dish that has been coated with "PAM" no stick spray.

Sprinkle Diced Rosemary salt an pepper over potatos.

Place in preheate oven (325 degrees) for approximately 30 minutes, turning over every 10 minutes or so.

Enjoy

ackme rosemary potatoes...
go to market, but 1 bag of Alexia oven fries. Put in oven. yum.

LOL, ackme!

That picture looks like it should illustrate a story headlined Your Weekend Doo-Doo List.

/just sayin'

You know you can add other root veggies for a root vegetable medley of baked fun. Carrots, sweet potatoes, turnips (if you like that kind of stuff) - excellent with a pork loin, which also works well with the fresh rosemary. Yum.

Speaking of root vegetables, ackme, Corrado's is now carrying both salsify and burdock root. I've cooked the former before, but does anyone know what to do with burdock root? (I see it in powdered or tablet form in health food stores all the time.)

From Wikipedia:

The burdock root is very crisp and has a sweet, mild, and pungent flavor with a little muddy harshness that can be reduced by soaking julienned/shredded roots in water for five to ten minutes. However, the harshness shows excellent harmonization with pork in miso soup (tonjiru) and Japanese-style pilaf (takikomi gohan).

A popular Japanese dish is kinpira gobo, julienned or shredded burdock root and carrot, braised with soy sauce, sugar, mirin and/or sake, and sesame oil; another is burdock makizushi (sushi filled with pickled burdock root rather than fish; the burdock root is often artificially colored orange to resemble a carrot). In Kyoto, gobo can also be found as a snack food similar to potato chips. The root is eaten cooked and the young sprout can be eaten just like asparagus.

This weekend I plan on watching the BET AwardsI Tivo'd last night.

Readers learned 2 important things about Sebold in Lucky -- that she'd been raped, and that her mother suffered from a severe anxiety/panic disorder. Her subsequent novels clearly use her life as an important jumping point, and a careful reviewer certainly would have known/mentioned this. Does anyone know if Sebold's father committed suicide?

Miss Martta, I meant something like a side dish that might go with a cheeseburger or pizza, not rarefied Japanese cuisine. I trust no nation that has never produced a great rock and roll band, after all.

Wasn't Kiss from Japan?

Mellonbrush, try with red potatoes, washed with skins, and a couple dashes of lemon juice, you won't be disappointed.

"...but does anyone know what to do with burdock root?"

Ask Mikey.

Brush! Do not use PAM. (Ewww! Read the label.) Since the potatoes have already been oiled (and you might want to try a mixture of canola and olive oils for flavor) they don't need any more. If they stick to the dish a little, just soak it in hot water for 10 minutes and it will scrub clean. And Alexia makes several different brands of frozen potatoes -- all good, and all without many chemicals. Great to have in the freezer for back up.