A Different Kind of Recipe

When I decided that I wanted to start a blog about food, the first thing I did was Google it...naturally. What I came across was another blog talking about how to blog about food. I will go ahead and let you know right now that I am not going to follow this so called “holy trinity” of food blogging. This concept requires food photography, which I am telling you now will not be my original work since I’m not a natural born photographer. Not even close. Another piece of the trinity requires “rock solid recipes”. Let me explain that I will most definitely be providing recipes, but they will most likely not be technically “rock solid”. Since I love food to the extreme, as well as making up recipes, I will simply tell you all about the fantastic new ideas I come up with as I continue to experiment with food.
Last night my boyfriend and I decided to attempt to replicate a fancy, high-end restaurant steak meal. This included filet mignon, sautéed broccoli, and baked potatoes. I left Josh in charge of the meat and broccoli, since I wanted to play around with the potatoes. Normally I would have just wrapped the potatoes in some foil and popped them in the oven. But then the butter on the counter caught my eye. I grabbed a butter knife and started slathering the butter all over the potatoes followed by some kosher salt and olive oil. These were going to be the most amazing baked potatoes Josh had ever had. After overwhelming these delicious potatoes with butter, salt and olive oil, I threw them in the foil and sat them in the oven. An hour and a half produced the most fabulous, buttery, melt-in-your-mouth baked potatoes in the world.
So maybe I’m not really the first genius to think of this, but I’m going to give myself the credit anyway. I can at least say that I will literally never cook a plain potato ever again. If you know what’s good for you, take this idea and drown your next potatoes in salt and butter. There is no specific recipe. You can’t really mess this up...
Happy cooking!
Christine Bathke