Boiled Then Baked Red Potatoes

So over the last week things have been crazy with my blog. After finding out that my blog name wasn’t as original as I thought it was I decided to go into a blog transforming process and give it a new name and a new look! There was a lot of brainstorming involved. Names were thought of that made me so excited only to find that they were already taken by someone who was smart to snatch it up. Sometimes I’d think of a name and find a blog with hundreds of followers and think, “Dang! That could be me!” but nonetheless it isn’t…I am pretty new on this journey in the blogging world though and I hope that by re-vamping my blog I can find new followers and help new people find delicious recipes!
After sending a long list of names to my mom one of them made her get the “On top of spaghetti…all covered with cheese” in her head. She text me back “On Top Of Spaghetti!!!” and the blog title was made. I decided to change it up to give it a more irish feeling. Because I am 1/4 Irish. NOT! haha My husband had the idea to do the O’ and I loved it! What would I do without my family to help me with my lack of creativity? I love them.

I have a lot of new exciting recipes to share! Over the next few months we are going to be graduating from college, moving somewhere in the country (location still unknown), going to a wedding, and going on a cruise. I am excited to share with you my food adventures along the way!

Now for Boiled and Baked Red Potatoes. This recipe was inspired by the Pioneer Woman. Her recipe is here. I apparently do not have the finesse of the Pioneer Woman to make perfectly cookie shaped smashed red potatoes. Mine ended up being a whole conglomeration of smashed up red potatoes on a cookie sheet. I couldn’t stop laughing when I showed my husband how my potatoes did not smash into beautiful round shapes like hers.
You need:
6-8 Red Potatoes
1/3 Cup Melted Butter
Pepper
Garlic Powder
Rosemary
Salt
Here is what you do:
Pre-Heat Oven to 450
Take your Red Potatoes and Boil them whole until you can poke into them easily with a fork (About 15-20 minutes)
Put Potatoes on cookie sheet and smash them with a potato smasher. You don’t want them to be like mashed potatoes you want some nice chunks!
Drizzle melted butter all over the potatoes and then stir them up a bit. You really want them to be covered! If they don’t seem buttery enough melt a little more.
Then sprinkle a little bit of each of the herbs over the top of the potatoes. Make sure you don’t skimp.
Bake at 450 for about 20 minutes. You want the tops of the potatoes to get nice and golden.
While you wait you can give your baby a peep. He will love you!

Tips from Kj:
Add some bacon bits  and green onion. Then in the last 5 minutes add some cheese! Almost like twice baked potatoes. Pin It

A Needed Change and What We Made Today

Hello everyone! I first want to thank all of you for reading my blog. Next I wanted to let all of you know that as you might have noticed I am changing the name of my blog to:
On Top O' Spaghetti

I'm really excited about this change because it is the start of amazing things to come and the inspiration for the new places I want to take my blog. I just wanted to give you all a heads up so that you won't be sad when you try to go to Cupookies and it is missing.
So be sure to change your links to my blog to:
ontopospaghetti.blogspot.com before Friday Night so you don’t miss my next post!
Make sure you only put "O" spaghetti. Not "of" spaghetti...or you will still be lost!
Thanks for following!

Also go to the store and get some discount Easter peeps and make these today: 

Peeps Rice Crispy Treats

We did and we are SO HAPPY! :)

Pin It

Garlic Lemon Pasta with Salmon

I love a nice Salmon Fillet grilled to perfection. I also have a husband in the MBA program at BYU. So needless to say we don’t have perfectly grilled salmon very often. But we do have cans of salmon. (Like canned tuna fish but pink!) So now I ask all of you to look at the picture below and pretend that there is a nice juicy blackened salmon fillet on the top of this pasta. Because one day…there will be. Thank you.

You need:

1/2 Cup Lemon Juice (about 2 lemons)
1 Tbsp Garlic Minced (about 4 Cloves)
1/2 Onion diced
2 Tbsp Olive Oil
1/2 tsp Salt
2 tsp honey
1 tsp mustard
1 tuna fish sized can of salmon

2/3 package cooked fettuccini noodles

You will also boil some pasta. Save about 1/4-1/2 cup of the pasta water after you drain the pasta. You will need this in the last step.

First sauté the garlic and onions in the oil until the onions are nice and transparent looking. (This is my favorite part! Smells so good!!) This takes about 4 minutes.

Meanwhile mix all of the other ingredients in a bowl including salmon. When the onions and garlic are ready add the sauce/salmon mixture and simmer for 3 minutes. Then add the cooked pasta to the sauce. This is where you need the pasta water. If the pasta is seeming a little dry add some of the water. We added about 1/4 cup.

Tips from Kj:

Like I said…a nice salmon fillet on this would be so yummy!

Mark loves to put parmesan cheese on this.

If you don’t have salmon use tuna or chicken!

Pin It