Mustard Roasted Potatoes – a super simple side dish #recipe

LESLIE BUDEWITZ:  Who doesn’t love roasted potatoes? We love them so much that we don’t make them too often – I’m sure you know exactly what I mean! Because, if they were there, we would eat them!

This version has a slight tang from the mustard, but only slight – the mustard mellows beautifully as the potatoes roast, combining with the olive oil to keep them moist and create a hint of a crust. We served these as a side with a steak, but they will go beautifully with anything – beef, chicken, pork, even fish. And the leftovers reheat well to serve alongside Sunday morning eggs.

Italian herbs are great with potatoes. I make my own blend – here’s the recipe – but a commercial variety works fine. Or toss in a mix of what you have – oregano, thyme, and basil, say – or substitute in another blend you enjoy. 

PS: I finally figured out how to embed a PDF of the recipe so you can print it easily. Scroll down to the 💕 for the link. 

Last weekend, half the Kitchen met up at Malice Domestic, the fan convention celebrating the traditional mystery, including the cozy, held the last weekend of April every year in Bethesda, Maryland. Leslie Karst, Edith Maxwell, and I popped down to the National Mall and paid homage to our patron goddess, Julia Child, where her kitchen -- the very one in Boston where she filmed that original cooking show we all love -- is the anchor of the Food exhibit in the National Museum of American History. Not a replica; the real thing! 

That evening, Edith, Korina, Molly MacRae, and I met up to assemble recipe card packets to hand out to readers. Maya Corrigan joined us Friday morning, where she, Molly, Leslie, and I participated in the "Malice Go-Round," speed-dating for authors and readers, but we forgot to get a picture. 

Maybe we'll meet up with you at "Malice" next year! 

Mustard Roasted Potatoes 

2 pounds red potatoes (about 6), scrubbed and cut into bite-sized pieces

2 tablespoons olive oil

2-3 tablespoons Dijon-style mustard

1 clove garlic, minced

½ teaspoon dried Italian herb blend 

a pinch of kosher salt

fresh parsley, chopped (optional)

Heat oven to 425 degrees. Prepare the potatoes. In a medium bowl, mix the olive oil, mustard, garlic, dried herbs, and salt. Add the potatoes and toss to coat. Spread on a rimmed baking sheet and bake 30-35 minutes, stirring occasionally, until tender. 

Serve, garnished with optional chopped parsley. 

Makes 8 servings. 

💕 Click here for a free printable PDF! 

TO ERR IS CUMIN: A Spice Shop Mystery (Seventh St. Books, coming July 16, 2024 in paper, ebook, and audio)

From the cover: 

One person’s treasure is another’s trash. . .

Pepper Reece, owner of the Spice Shop in Seattle’s Pike Place Market, wants nothing more than to live a quiet life for a change, running her shop and working with customers eager to spice up their cooking. But when she finds an envelope stuffed with cash in a ratty old wingback left on the curb, she sets out to track down the owner.

Pepper soon concludes that the chair and its stash may belong to young Talia Cook, new in town and nowhere to be seen. Boz Bosworth, an unemployed chef Pepper’s tangled with in the past, shows up looking for the young woman, but Pepper refuses to help him search. When Boz is found floating in the Ship Canal, only a few blocks from Talia’s apartment, free furniture no longer seems like such a bargain.

On the hunt for Talia, Pepper discovers a web of connections threatening to ensnare her best customer. The more she probes, the harder it gets to tell who’s part of an unsavory scheme of corruption—and who might be the next victim.

Between her quest for an elusive herb, helping her parents remodel their new house, and setting up the Spice Shop’s first cooking class, Pepper’s got a full plate. Dogged by a sense of obligation to find the rightful owner of the hidden treasure, she keeps on showing up and asking questions.

One mistake, and she could find herself cashing out. . .

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Leslie Budewitz is the author of the Spice Shop Mysteries set in Seattle's Pike Place Market, and the Food Lovers’ Village Mysteries, set in NW Montana. As Alicia Beckman, she writes moody, standalone suspense, most recently Blind Faith. She is the winner of Agatha Awards in three categories: Best Nonfiction (2011), Best First Novel (2013), and Best Short Story (2018). Her latest book is Between a Wok and a Dead Place, the 7th Spice Shop mystery.  

A past president of Sisters in Crime and national board member of Mystery Writers of America, Leslie lives in northwest Montana with her husband, a musician and doctor of natural medicine, and their cat, an avid bird-watcher.

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