"Hey, it's your fire, and you know what a done potato is like," writes Punctilious of Blogoram in a recipe for grilled Garlic Mashed Potatoes filed under C for "Campfire" at the Carnival of the Recipes over at Not Exactly Rocket Science -- a cook after our own heart when it comes to writing down a recipe. If you're a novice and need to know the basics, there are cookbooks and online places like epicurious.com with exact amounts and such. At this stage of life after eleventy-two culinary triumphs, we know what we know, and we love Punctilious's laid-back approach:
Here is a tasty dish to go along with the campfire BBQ Brisket below. Wrap a bunch of big ole potatoes in foil and toss them in the warm but not hot coals on the edge of the fire. Make up a double layer foil packet of garlic cloves and olive oil and toss in the fire as well. (Be extra careful you don't burn the garlic!) When all is well done, take the spuds and garlic out of the fire. (OK, done garlic is fragrant and soft, maybe a little golden and NOT burned.) Squeeze the inners of the potatoes into a bowl and dump in the entire packet of garlic. Mash together with some butter, milk, and shredded parmesan. (More milk and more mashing if you like smooth, less if you like lumpy.) Add salt and pepper to taste. Put a big heap of potatoes on the plate and serve up plenty of broth from the BBQ. Yum.
Our kind of recipe. Then, too, unlike the case with the take-no-prisoners Carnival of the Cats, InstaPundit links the we-are-family Carnival of the Recipes weekly. Nothing wrong with that. Tiny and Baby ADORE recipes, especially those including fish, ham, bacon, fowl or beef.
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