Potato wedges

For most of us we have realized that we really shouldn't eat deep fried food, but for me potato wedges of fries was something I'd really miss. Luckily it's easy enough to do really good potato wedges in the oven. This isn't as much a recipe as it is tips for getting really delicious wedges.

Start by washing your potatoes thoroughly. Then cut your potato into wedges. Try to get them as even in size as you can so that they cook at the same pace. Once you have cut the potatoes you will need to rinse them again to remove the starch. After rinsing put them on a tea towel to dry. You can use paper towels but cloth is better for the pocket book and the environment.

Once you've got them dry, put them in a bowl and pour a little amount of vegetable oil or olive oil and mix well so that they are completely covered with a thin layer of oil. Take a baking pan and cover it with tinfoil. You want to use tinfoil to help them get crispy. Then place them on the foil and sprinkle with a chili based BBQ spice.

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Preheat the oven to 200C and when it's warm put the pan in the lower third of the oven for 20 minutes. Take the pan out and turn all of them over and then put them back in for another 20 minutes. I like to do some carrots and onion together with the wedges since they take about the same amount of time. The wedges should be fluffy inside and very tasty. Pick and choose what you want to serve them with.

 

 

Today I decided to have my wedges with a homemade burger. One of my favorites. 

Sunset today. Absolutely amazing.

Tonight there was a blue moon. simply stunning. 

Grilled pork

BBQ is always the correct answer

12 months of the year using the BBQ is always the correct answer if you are looking for tasty and easy food. Remember when you are doing pork or chicken that it is important to add flavor. there is a reason they say everything tastes like chicken, because chicken doesn't taste like anything and spices rule. 

For pork you should try to marinade your meat at least an hour, a couple days doesn't hurt. You can even put your pork in a bag with marinade and freeze it down so that it is good and tasty when you take it up. 

Marinade

• 3 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 3 garlic cloves minced
• 1/2 Teaspoon chilli powder
• 1/2 teaspoon paprika powder
• 1/2 teaspoon ginger powder
• 2 tablespoons grated orange peel
• dash of soya sauce
• 2 tablespoons ketchup
• 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
• water to mix and cover all the meat

Put a plastic bag in a large bowl. Add  all the ingredients to the bag except the water and mix it up. Lay in your pork and then add water to cover. Seal the bag and shake well. Put the bag in the bowl and put it in the fridge. Go back and turn the bag over and shake now and then. Sometimes I like to add half a can of coca cola about 30 minutes before I take the meat out of the marinade.

Make sure the grill is hot when you start and place the meat on the grill. turn after about 1 minute and let it cook. Remember searing the meat keeps the moisture in. Make sure you don't over grill or your will dry your meat. Pork should be about as soft as the center of your palm when it's done.

Oven baked potato wedges recipe 
Dipping sauce

Mix and match

Mixing and matching what can be cooked together can make meal planning a lot easier. Today the mix is potato wedges and chicken wings. They both go on the same tray in the oven and take the same amount for time.


The recipe for both is in previous posts.

Dipping Sauce

sour cream
Chili powder
Garlic powder
Ketchup
Soya
tomato paste

Still no sign of nice weather 

 

 

Grilled Sausage and oven baked potato wedges

BBQ season is great for the tasty food that can be made and for  the fact that it's not a lot of work to make the meals. Any kind of meat and you are half way there. Today it's a simple all beef chorizo sausage. The first thing I'll say about sausage is make sure you get sausage and NOT hot dogs. Hot dogs are the worst filth that is left when all the real meat has been used for other things. It's bleached into a massive pit of crud and then colored pink to make you think it's meat. IT'S NOT!! SO check to make sure what you are getting and if you can pick up some tasty sausages from your local deli.

Potato wedges are extremely easy to make. Cut your  potatoes and then rinse then in water. put a little oil in a large bowl and toss the wedges to get them covered in a light layer of oil. Then generously season with any mix you like on your wedges. You can go as simple as salt and pepper or try some Cajun or BBQ spice. Oven to 200C. Cover a pan with tin foil and lay the wedges on the foil. I use my pan with a rack but straight on foil works. After 20 minutes you turn them all over and after 40 you need to make sure your meat is ready to go because the wedges are done.

easy food rules!

The weather was really good today. Got to see and photograph both the sunrise and late in the evening a sunset. all in all a good day.

Today's sunset