Our trip to Biloxi, Mississippi

Day 3 of having a blog and I am adding my first recipe. We were in Biloxi, Ms in September, this was one of our stops along the Gulf Coast. If ever there, you need to have dinner at the Half Shell Oyster House. Our dinner was amazing and the wait staff was outstanding. Yes, this was a recommendation from Trip Advisor, I believe it was ranked #2 of the restaurants in the area. As I said in my first post, my boyfriend is always waiting for me to recreate foods from our travels. For his dinner that evening, he ordered Sirloin with boiled fried potatoes. He was in love at first bite! How hard can it be to recreate a boiled fried potato?

First attempt didn't cut it, I purchased Simply Potatoes at the grocery store, already boiled potatoes. Not what I was looking for. The potatoes were good, but not the finished product I was looking for. I searched the internet trying to find just the right one. I learned  this is a southern dish, it's fried food, what's not to love?    I wanted to add it to my Pinterest account, but it didn't have a link to add web site.

I hope if you try the recipe, you will love it as much as we did and do. I have also added a picture of the dinner I had. Red Snapper with Fried Spaghetti, yes, that is correct Fried Spaghetti. Totally Awesome. Topped with a salsa and a lemon sauce and parmesan cheese.

Recipe for Rosemary-Infused Boiled-Fried Potatoes:
Kitchen Mouse (I want to thank Kitchen Mouse for her entry)

Adapted from Rene K. and Seasaltwithfood
Serves 2

• 3 small to medium potatoes, sliced into thick chunks
• ~4 tbsp (50 g) butter, cut into chunks
• 1 large sprig rosemary (I used dried rosemary, probably 1-2 tbsp.) 
• 5+ cloves of garlic, halved
• 1/4 cup onion, diced
• salt

Place potatoes in a single layer (or as close as you can get) in a large, deep skillet, sprinkle over with onion and garlic. Add water until the potatoes are barely covered, then add butter, rosemary, and salt. Bring it to a boil and cook for 15 - 20 minutes, letting the water evaporate. Once it has, reduce the heat to medium and fry the potatoes until they're crispy, golden-brown and delicious. (my pictures. I am making the potatoes again tonight and I will add step by step pictures.) The whole clove of garlic cut in half really is a necessity. Do not cut corners and use chopped or minced garlic in the jar.

I used 6 really small baby red potatoes. You can see the head of garlic is larger. 

Potatoes are shown barely covered in water. I added approximately 1 cup of water.

Here I added the Rosemary, butter, and salt. The process is amazing. As the water is boiling and begins to evaporate,  you can tell by the change of the cooking sounds the water is gone and the frying process has started.

Fry till  potatoes are golden and crispy. We like for everything to be really crispy.  The Rosemary is cooked all thru the potatoes. If you try, please leave me a comment to let me know if you liked the potatoes.

I served the potatoes with garlic shrimp and a jumbo lump crab cake. Crab cake is broiled  instead of fried.  Costco has  jumbo lump crab meat from North Carolina for $23.99. Also serve with a small side salad. Crab cakes $6.00 per person. Cheaper then eating out. Majority of restaurants are charging between $13-$20 for a crab cake.

Here goes my first entry into the Blog world!

      I have been going back and forth trying to decide if I really wanted to start a Blog. Well, here I am. First off I am not a professional chef or a world traveler, but I thought it would be interesting to share my food and travel experiences. Seems like every time we go away, my boyfriend when we return is waiting for me to recreate food from our trip. I do love to cook, so I have fun experimenting recreating food from our travels.

    Also, as I said I love to cook. There are so many food web sites, so now you say we really don't need one more. I beg to differ, how many home cooks are on the internet? Millions! I want to try and do things a little different. I will be adding daily pictures of our Pugs, they keep us entertained at all times and I want to share this with everyone.

 
   Our Pugs, we have one hyper and one lazy. I would have never guessed a Pug would be hyper, but low and behold we have one. OK, so basically hyper is the nice way of saying she is psycho. Lazy Pug looks at her and has this look on his face that says girl, you don't need to run, jump and play. Lay here and they will come to you and feed you whatever you want. I wouldn't part with either one, they are my buds.

 I was told I needed to add my Ice Cream Cake Recipe to Pinterest, (link will take you to my Pintersest site.) but I am thinking I will put it here instead and hope that everyone will enjoy it as much as we do. I will be adding pictures from our trips, scenery as well as food. I have original recipes, family recipes and recipes borrowed from the internet. I will give credit where credit is do.I will tell you of our travels, give details on hotels and restaurants, and where not to go. We use Tripadvisor.com most of the time for restaurant suggestions and so far we have been very lucky in our choices.