This recipe is a delicious, yet easy to create and modify. You start by rinsing a bag of red potatoes (about 2 pounds). Put the potatoes in a big pot and cover with water. Once the potatoes are boiling, set the timer for 20 minutes.
After they become soft enough to stick a fork into them, drain the water and break them apart. This is the great part of the recipe. They are not mashed or cubed, they are just broken apart. From my experience, that makes it taste like potato salad with some mashed potatoes mixed in. I took a large, plastic spoon and broke them apart one at a time in the bowl. When I had a new layer completed, I would sprinkle them with cajun seasoning. At the very end, I poured 2 sticks of unsalted butter over the top and stirred once more. I know that sounds like a lot of butter, but the potatoes seem to soak it up and it did not feel overwhelming.
They made a great side dish for Trey's spicy nuggets (something a little hot and something mild)
One of the main things I liked about the recipe is that it is almost endlessly adaptable. Some of the ideas we came up with were:
- loaded potatoes by adding sour cream, bacon and cheese
- seafood potatoes with crab boil as the flavoring
- ranch potatoes with ranch mix and sour cream
They were delicious and we had a very good meal that night!
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