VERY simple garlic roasted potatoes

[elleng]

http://www.sweetlittlebluebird.com/2015/06/perfect-garlic-roasted-potatoes.html

[Lars39]

1. Bet you could flash freeze those.

Thanks for posting, elleng!

[Fix The Stupid]

2. Has anyone ever tried freezing potatoes like this after cooking?

Great Question...

Anyone ever make a huge batch and freeze them for later?

I'd love to hear if it worked out...

We have finally smartened up and started cooking HUGE amounts of food when we cook, then just freeze the rest and on a crappy Monday night when you feel lazy and don't want to cook, just go to the freezer...

We started making spaghetti sauce this way. Always from "scratch" (Close enough I guess) , doubled the recipe we have.

Cook it up, let it simmer for an hour, then let cool.

We then put 3 scoops into the big freezer bags and freeze. We usually get 7-8 bags each time... Talk about simple. One hint if you do this - make sure when you put the bags in the freezer, they are on a flat surface - don't want the bags to slip into the grating... Total pain in the a$$ to get out once it freezes

[Lars39]

3. I've frozen oven potatoes before, just not this recipe (yet!)

I spread them out on a cookie sheet and flas foze them on the top shelf of an upright freezer.
I have a bunch of of cookie sheets I use as trays to keep bags flat. Mostly I freeze stuff as flatish blocks using 1/2 gallon freezer containers, then I use a foodsaver on them. Takes care of liquids stuff a whole lot easier.

On edit: the potatoes I froze that way turned out very good. I've been trying to find cheaper Foodsaver bags and stumbled onto commercial bags on Amazon. Cuts price down to about 20 cents a bag.

[hippywife]

4. Those look great.

I usually just do a stove top version, boiling the potatoes, cubed with skins on, and adding butter, salt and garlic, but this looks very tasty.

Best potato recipe I ever tried from a fellow C&Ber was this one Stinky shared, not exactly simple, but not difficult, either:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=236x8241

ETA: I just used very small red potatoes for both.

[elleng]

5. OH THANKS, hippywife,

you've given me 2 MORE to try!!! and causing me to recall OTHERS in my way back memory!



P.S., someone was looking for you here, re: 4th of July celebration, I think.