Uncle Mitchy's Blog

Here is a quick and easy recipe for a great side dish for steak or other meat dishes.

Ingredients

My measurements include phrases like “some” and “thingy.”  You can figure it out.  I don’t have time to do all of the work for you.  What am I, your mother?

• 1 sack of pearl onions
• 1 thingy of whole mushrooms
• 1 sack of Trader Joe’s Teeny Tiny Potatoes (they don’t have to be from Trader Joes but you would lose out on that smugness you get from shopping there)
• Some red pepper flakes
• Some olive oil

Preparation

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.

Rinse the potatoes and give them a good once over with a vegetable brush.  If you don’t have a vegetable brush, use your spouse’s toothbrush.  Leave the skins on, because if you try to skin Trader Joe’s Teeny Tiny Potatoes you are an idiot.

Chop the ends off of the pearl onions and remove the skins.  Rinse off the mushrooms too ’cause those bastards have been gettin’ it on with the parsnips when the lights go out at the supermarket (or so the acorn squash told me).

Put the whole mess into a Pyrex dish that has a lid or a ramekin that you can cover with aluminum foil and announce to the world “look at my savory balls!”

Sprinkle the olive oil over everything and then sprinkle the red pepper flakes on top of that.  I can usually tell by the look on my wife’s face when she thinks I have added enough red pepper flakes and then I shake on a little more, ’cause I’m an asshole.

Cover it up and shove it in the oven for a while.  Every ten minutes or so, check your balls for softness with a fork and watch shriveling and dryness.  Then check the thing you put in the oven.  When the potatoes feel a little soft, remove the lid or aluminum foil and broil them for a few more minutes.

Now shut up and eat it.