New Potatoes

Okay all you seasoned gardeners out there, you will

laugh, but I have successfully grown my own potatoes

for the first time and I am SO excited

It is like Christmas digging around in that raised bed and finding

little nuggets of starchy gold

The best thing is that I hadn't even planned on planting them

but I had about 20 potatoes left this spring from my

autumn Carding Brook Farm haul.

They were starting to sprout and my Ruth Stout book said,

"just throw them on the dirt and cover them with hay"

So I did and I've grown potatoes!!

Renee invited some folks over last night for an impromptu

lobster feed and I had a chance to showcase my wares

Foil and the grill, my favorite tools.

The trick is to put them on after the coals have died down from being

red hot, or make a space for indirect heat on the grill,

so you don't get that black, burned layer of potato and onion

that I remember so well from my childhood.

I layered potatoes, onions, garlic, rosemary, basil, Maldon's Sea salt,

Aleppo pepper, Greek olive oil and a little butter - 

Wrapped them up and threw them on, put the lid down 

and in about 25 minutes had this!

Enjoy your day and all it's surprises

Kyra