Sheet -Pan Lemon Pepper Chicken and Potatoes

 

Belly Full on a Budget

I made some lemon pepper ribs some time last year and they were phenomenal. I decided that I need to create a full meal on a budget using chicken and a similar lemon pepper sauce. The best part; it uses one bag to marinate it all, and one sheet pan to cook it. It yields juicy chicken with a creamy sauce full of pepper, garlic, and lemon flavors. keep reading to see the full recipe.

Breakfast Fried Potato Salad

The Breakfast of Champions

I should have called this dish loaded home fries; however, I already edited the video with the "breakfast fried potato salad" title. So "it is, what it is." And what it is, is the most delicious potato dish I have made in quite a while. 

Salt and Vinegar Roasted Potatoes

Snack or Sidedish? 

Am I the only one who is obsessed with salt and vinegar potato chips? I simply cannot be. I got hooked on them around 2013. If you are like me, then this will be your new favorite way to cook potatoes. It literally tastes like you popped open a bag of salt n vinegar lays.

Chicken. Potatoes. Gravy…enough said!

"Quarantine Cooking"

The much-requested recipe from my Instagram stories; I am always making this easy dinner, and everyone is always asking for the recipe. Without further adieu, I bring to you an unbelievably delicious chicken and potato dinner. The gag is… you think the chicken will be the star of the show, but the potatoes shoot in from second place for a photo finish. Turns out they end up being the best potatoes you ever ate.

Rundown Scalloped Potatoes with garlic potato chip topping

"Quarantine Cooking"

Right now the aim of the game is to cook with what you have and to limit trips to the grocery store as much as possible. Potatoes while they don’t last forever, do give you the gift of versatility. They can be baked, fried, mashed, roasted, boiled and just about any cooking method you can think of potatoes fit the bill. So in an effort to make scalloped potatoes with a Jamaican flair, this recipe was born.

Sheet-pan shrimp “boil”

"Something Smells Fishy"

They always say when life gives you lemons make lemonade, but the saying assumes you have sugar and water. I have been MIA for what feels like the last 20 years from blogging. Life gave me a whole bag of lemons when my husband died four days after my last post, while I was 7 months pregnant. I was fresh out of sugar and water. Thank God for friends and family, who not only gave me sugar and water but made the lemonade for me and fed it to me. Fast forward four months later, Baby is born and healthy, I’m back to cooking and finally back to blogging. I have lost my biggest fan, but I’m still here by God’s grace. Next ill start back on video posts. Normally April would have been my month for vegan and vegetarian recipes, but I’m mixing it up and just finishing off the month with maybe 5 seafood recipes. The first being a super easy and very flavorful shrimp dish.

Ginger lime Grilled potato salad

"We be Grillin"

Ever made a grilled potato salad? No? Then here is your chance. I can’t lie, this recipe was a reach. I wanted to make potato salad, but I had to make the dish fit in with this month of grilling. I had no idea if it would work, but I took a leap of faith, and it paid off.

Regular degular shmegular Potato salad

Brunch knows best

Who wants potato salad? That’s the line my sister says in a family home video we have. She was walking around with a fork full taunting me as I set the table. It was a Sunday dinner tradition. My mother used to throw down every Sunday. She is the reason my sister is absolutely obsessed with potato salad. So while I am setting the table (by climbing on top of it) my sister would taste the potato salad. No Sunday dinner, potluck, bbq or brunch is complete without it.

Spicy Chicken fried potato wedges

"Potato Patata" 

When I say spicy, I don’t mean peppery I mean full of spices. I basically took every herb I had at the time and threw them at the potatoes. They turned out pretty good, crunchy,  hot and flavorful. Anyone who love potato wedges might want to give this recipe a try.

The simplest mashed potatoes

"Potato Patata"

What’s simpler than a bowl of flavorful creamy mashed potatoes? Sometime we can get so carried away with this dish we forget that’s in its simplest form it’s also very delicious. Let’s take it back to the basics today with a flavorful staple that everyone already knows how to make. If you can boil water you can make a delicious bowl of mashed potatoes.

Potato bacon egg and cheese hash

"Potato Patata" 

What do you do on a Saturday morning when you wake up and have the task to make breakfast or three hungry mouths? You make the breakfast hash of champions. This breakfast was soooooo good. Last Saturday I made a huge pot of this, everyone was so hungry that I could barely get pics of the food. It’s a real hearty meal that will have you full the entire day.

Sweet potato and roasted pepper hash

M...eat...less

Can you say easy, all you need is one pot for this absolutely delicious meal.  Who does not love sweet potatoes with flavorful roasted peppers? This makes a great side dish or it can be enjoyed all on its own. You can’t go wrong with a one pot hash ever!

Herb buttered Hasselback Potatoes

"Christmas is coming"

When has the road of life ever steered you wrong when the signs point to potatoes, butter, herbs and garlic? Not ever! And today’s recipe won’t hurt you either. It’s one of the coolest ways to have a potato. Hasselback potatoes merge a baked potato, potato chips and roasted potatoes all into one perfect package.  Slathered in garlic herb butter just the way everyone likes it.

Parmesan Garlic Fries

Summa Summa Summa time!

How many times have you had parmesan garlic fries at a restaurant and thought “I wish I could make them at home”. Well my fellow foodies I have cracked the parmesan garlic fries code ‘fa realz!’ And they taste EXACTLY like the ones we know and love at all these fabulous restaurants. The secret is in the parmesan, keep reading!

Mashed Sweet Potatoes

 "Christmas is coming"
 

If I had to rank potato cooking methods in order of deliciousness, mashed potatoes would be in my top three. A dish of mashed potatoes is one of the best side dishes and sweet mashed potatoes are even more so. And when I say sweet potatoes, I'm not referring to the Jewel or Garnet yams. In Jamaica we have very starchy red skinned fibrous sweet potato, similar to Japanese sweet potatoes (however the flesh is a pale mustard yellow not white). This savory dish is perfect for your Christmas table. This recipe was totally by accident and I'm so glad I stumbled upon it.

Sweet and sour chicken with potatoes

Lunchables 
 
If there is one dish that I would have to call my specialty it would be this. Ever since I came up with the idea to use pineapple jam instead of pineapple juice in my sweet n sour sauces the dish has never been the same. This recipe came out extra special, due to the fact that the grocery store did not have any pineapple jam, but had pineapple coconut jam. I was very excited to try this new flavor combo to see how this could make a delicious lunch.

Smashed potato

"Christmas is coming"

I love instagram, you get so many ideas from this lovely app full of pictures posted by absolute strangers who you pretty much have accepted into your social media family. You see, I was all set to make my garlic roasted Irish potatoes, the same potatoes I make every Christmas and most sit down dinners. Its quick, easy and yummy. Then in scrolling the feeds I see hassleback potatoes and quickly the menu changed. This greedy girl was all set to make her own version of hasslebacks (another item on my cooking bucket list yet to be crossed off) Then in scrolling the feeds (again) I see smashed potatoes, here is where the internal struggle began, I’ve seen smashed potatoes done a few times on food network, but it never really grabbed me, and the hassleback thing I have been wanting to do for so long.  

Salt and not so Vinegar chips

Cookout and BBQ Season!

The Potato chip is one of the classic summer BBQ side dishes. Second only to fries, it goes with every summer sandwich. Hot dogs and burgers would not be the same without a hand full of potato chips to munch on.