Simple Buttery Herbed Potatoes
Here’s a very easy recipe that can be made in your oven or on a campfire. This is by no means a healthy side dish, but it’s really tasty!
Buttery Herbed Potatoes
Ingredients:
- Potatoes (round white, new potatoes, fingerlings, purple or blue potatoes all work really well).
- Herbs, any kind you like (I recommend Rosemary & Thyme)
- Butter, 1 stick
This whole recipe is relative but basically you want a good double handful of small potatoes, or however many you think you need to serve your party/family.
Cut your potatoes into nice, small, bite sized pieces and place them in a baking dish.
Sprinkle them with a good amount of herbs. I use dried (or fresh if it’s available) Rosemary & Thyme (about a tablespoon of each, more if you’re using fresh). Crush up your dried rosemary sprigs with a morter & pestle before sprinkling.
Place a stick of butter on top of the potatoes, cover, and bake at 350 degree’s for 1 hour.
To prepare on a campfire:
You want to make sure your campfire has burned completely down to coals. You want a lot of really good, hot coals too because you need to cook this for an hour on the coals; you want them to last. This can take a little practice, coals too hot you may burn your potatoes, too cold, you’ll have undercooked, crunchy potatoes.
Instead of placing in a baking dish you’re going to prepare a double-thick packet out of heavy duty aluminum foil. Place the potatoes in the packet, sprinkle the herbs on and place the stick of butter on top. Be sure you close the packet up really tight to avoid butter leakage!
Place the packet directly on the hot coals and turn it every 20 minutes or so until thoroughly cooked.
Be REALLY careful opening your packet of potatoes, the melted butter will be really hot and may have made it’s way into any crevices available around your opening points. 
Last time we made this while camping they were amazing. I don’t have any pictures of camping prep. If we make them this year I will revisit this post after we get back from our annual camping trip which will be towards the end of September.
