Recipe for Fondant Potatoes
Chef John's fondant potatoes are oven-braised in a buttery, thyme-flavored sauce. The outsides are crisp and golden and the insides are rich and creamy.
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Fondant Potatoes
Chef John's fondant potatoes are oven-braised in a buttery, thyme-flavored sauce. The outsides are crisp and golden and the insides are rich and creamy.
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Fondant Potatoes - Roasted Potato
The potatoes for Chef John's fondant are braised in a buttery sauce with thyme in the oven. The exteriors are golden and crisp, and the interiors are creamy and rich.
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Recipe for Fondant Potatoes
The potatoes for Chef John's fondant are braised in a buttery sauce with thyme in the oven. The exteriors are golden and crisp, and the interiors are creamy and rich. 2 tablespoons high-heat-resistant vegetable oil such as grapeseed oil, 3 tablespoons butter, 3 large whole russet potatoes, salt and ground black pepper to taste, 4 sprigs thyme plus more for garnish, 1/2 cup chicken broth or more as needed
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These easy yet elegant Fondant Potatoes are browned and then baked in creamy butter sauce and rich chicken stock with aromatic fresh herbs.
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Fluffbruary, Day 22
February 22: key | silly | quest
Dream of the Endless / Hob Gadling
Rated G (maybe T for one word?)
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Part of the joy of shepherding Dream through his new life as simply an immortal man, rather than the anthropomorphic personification of the entire collective subconscious, is introducing him to the many ways humankind has discovered to prepare certain foods.
Sometimes that's poulet rôti and pommes fondantes, and sometimes it's dinosaur chicken bites and alphabites.
The versatility of the human imagination will never cease to amaze Hob.
Dream eyes the platter of breaded wonder warily.
"Sometimes you need to feed your inner 8 year old," Hob says with a grin.
"I am certain you did not eat this as a child."
"Well, no. But I absolutely would have if it had been available, it's fun and delicious. And look! You can make words!"
He picks out HOB and then DREAM from the platter of letter-shaped potato bites and grins at the look of their names, side by side.
"Come on, just try one," Hob coaxes, biting the head off a dinosaur with a delightful chomp. They're not gourmet, it's true, but they are salty and crunchy and satisfying.
His colleague Annelise has two children Hob sometimes watches so that she and her wife can have some alone time, and because Hob is a pushover when it comes to children - and has been for centuries - he cooks dinosaur nuggets and alphabites more than he really should. It's where he picked up the occasional craving for them.
"I am reliably informed," Hob says, picking through the letters he purposely chose (it took two bags), "by some very smart children, that the most fun part is making naughty words with your sibling or mates without your mums catching on."
He starts forming words on the table in front of his plate, upside down so that Dream can easily read them from across the table, and watches as Dream cautiously tastes a dinosaur.
"Voila!" Hob exclaims, gesturing at his oven baked masterpiece.
BILL SHAXBERD IS A TWAT
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The internet informs me that dinosaur chicken bites do exist in England, so if they're not very common, a) please excuse this poor American, and b) I'm sorry, because dinosaur chicken nuggets and tater tots is sometimes a very delicious and satisfying meal.
Thanks to @fluffbruary for the prompt, and this is for @ladytian, who laughed about the idea with me this past weekend and then reminded me today was the day to write it.
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