Breakfast Potatoes

Hi Everyone,

I trust that 2015 has been treating you well so far.

If you've been following this blog for a while, you will know that I am not big on making resolutions, but every now and then, throughout the year, I make an attempt to eat breakfast. I am the kind of person that wants to wake up each morning and be surprised by what I find on my plate for breakfast. While I am quite content to eat the same thing 2 to 3 days in a row for lunch or dinner, that is not the case when it comes to breakfast. I seek variety: savoury and sweet (more savoury), heavy and light, liquid and solids.

Here's the thing, because I want breakfast to be a surprise and something different daily, I find that I cannot plan what I want to have for breakfast the day or night before, this generally results in me not having breakfast at all. If I am not rushing to get out of the house, invariably, I'll have tea.

The other day I got up and felt like eating potatoes for breakfast. Ah, a rare occasion that I actually knew what I wanted to eat for breakfast. These potatoes were done cooking in under half an hour. I like that.

There's no particular recipe. All you need are potatoes, oil or butter if you prefer, salt and pepper. I used a dry all purpose seasoning for my potatoes and finished them off with chopped chives.

Scrub or peel some potatoes and dice them

Heat a pan (cast iron works great) with 2 tablespoons oil until smoking hot and add the potatoes to the pan and spread it out in an even layer. Do not touch it, let it cook for 5 minutes to get brown on the parts that are in direct contact with the pan

Meanwhile, sprinkle the seasoning along with some salt and freshly ground black pepper

Toss the potatoes to let other pieces brown. Let it cook for another 5 minutes

Cover the pan, turn the heat to low and let steam-cook for 15 minutes. Remove the cover, shut off the heat and garnish with chives or thinly sliced green onions

I had mine with a fried egg.