AN EASY POTATO APPETIZER: BAKED POTATO BITES

Hi There Potato Lover! This is the ultimate recipe in my Walking Canapé Insanity periodical. Today's instruction is for an rich murphy course that is also a sanguine instruction. It's for Live Burnt Tater Bites with Asparagus. See on for the statement of how ladened parched potatoes can perchance be bouncing, and for the recipe too of row!

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What with the upcoming actuate, I haven't had often instance. But I sought to provide you one terminal Canapé for my District Canapé Insaneness program.

The line down this undemanding appetiser recipe, as with all the appetizer recipes in this program, is to be reasonable. Here we bang Tempered Potato Bites with Asparagus (work cream and philosopher included!).

The happening is, there's not as often murphy, bacon or acerb take in these murphy appetizers as there is in an actualized unexploded burnt potato. You can get two or trine of these tasteful baked vine bites and not do anywhere nearer the harm that a full-on burned vine would do.

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INGREDIENTS:

• 9 small yellow potatoes
• 2 tsp olive oil, divided
• salt and pepper
• 1 slice of bacon
• 6 spears of asparagus, trimmed of tough ends
• 4 and 1/2 tsp sour cream

DIRECTIONS:

1. Preheat the oven to 450ºF.
2. Cut the potatoes in half lengthwise (so the cut surface is oblong-ish rather than circle-ish). Put them in a 9"x11" cake pan (if your pan is prone to sticking, add some foil or parchment paper first). Toss the potatoes with 1 teaspoon of the olive oil, 1/4 tsp coarse salt and 1/8 tsp coarse black pepper. Scoot the potatoes to one side of the pan and arrange them cut side up. Lay the slice of bacon along the other side of the pan. Put the pan into the preheated oven.
3. Roast until the potatoes are tender when pierced with a fork, about 15 minutes. Do check on them sooner, especially having a peek at your bacon. It will be done before the potatoes if it's on the thin side. When the bacon looks crispy, remove it from the pan and transfer it to some kitchen towel to blot and cool. When the potatoes are done, remove the pan from the oven and allow them to cool as well.
4. Meanwhile, toss the asparagus with the remaining 1 teaspoon of oil, a good pinch of salt and a grind of pepper. Put the spears on a baking sheet and pop it into the oven. Cook until bright green and only just yielding to the pressure of a fork (4 minutes for this asparagus, 7 for really thick ones). Remove from the oven and transfer them to a plate to cool. Cut each asparagus spear into three equal lengths.
5. Chop up the bacon.
6. Arrange the potato halves on a serving plate, cut side up. If any are particularly tipsy, cut a thin slice off of the rounded bottom, making it flat so that the potato can sit with some dignity. Top each half with 1/4 teaspoon of sour cream, a little sprinkle of bacon and one length of asparagus. Give everything a small grind of pepper.

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