{"id":663,"date":"2008-09-26T22:06:55","date_gmt":"2008-09-27T03:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=663"},"modified":"2008-09-26T22:06:55","modified_gmt":"2008-09-27T03:06:55","slug":"whats-cookin-skillet-smashed-potatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=663","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Cookin&#8217;&#8230; Skillet Smashed Potatoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=613\">Back in July<\/a>, I tried out a new recipe for Cracked Potatoes, using both <a href=\"http:\/\/karmafreecooking.wordpress.com\/2008\/06\/27\/cracked-potatoes\/\">this skillet recipe<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/thepioneerwoman.com\/cooking\/2008\/06\/crash-hot-potatoes\/\">this oven recipe<\/a>.\u00a0 I, personally, love potatoes in any form, so they both were tasty.\u00a0 But the skillet version was a bit better.\u00a0 The one problem was that when you &#8220;crack&#8221; the potatoes, they start to fall apart.\u00a0 So I winged it, and created my Skillet Smashed Potatoes that were AWESOME.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Potatoes &#8211; small ones, Yukon gold or red, boiled in salted water until a knife slides in, but not super soft (15 min?)<\/li>\n<li>Take potatoes from pan, &#8220;crack&#8221; with the bottom of a glass, trying not mash it too much.<\/li>\n<li>Heat 2-3 T extra virgin olive oil in the bottom of a skillet.\u00a0 Add 2 tsp minced garlic, and saute until it starts to brown.\u00a0 Remove most of the garlic bits with a spoon so they don&#8217;t burn and bitter.<\/li>\n<li>Add the potatoes, and let them fall apart, if they do.\u00a0 Cook for 3-4 minutes on one side.\u00a0 Season liberally with garlic salt and cracked pepper.\u00a0 Turn the potatoes over, and let them break apart.\u00a0 Cook another 5 minutes, until small pieces start to turn golden brown.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in July, I tried out a new recipe for Cracked Potatoes, using both this skillet recipe and this oven recipe.\u00a0 I, personally, love potatoes in any form, so they both were tasty.\u00a0 But the skillet version was a bit better.\u00a0 The one problem was that when you &#8220;crack&#8221; the potatoes, they start to fall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26],"tags":[53,52],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whats-cookin","tag-potatoes","tag-side"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkzLf-aH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}