Simple Boiled Potatoes w/Sweet Butter and Herbs

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    1

    (but scales up like a dream)
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Ruffage: A Practical Guide to Vegetables

By Abra Berens

Published 2019

  • About

This is maybe the most boring recipe in this whole book, but boiled potatoes are the simplest of perfect treats. They feel revelatory when combined with an eye-popping array of fresh herbs, a good knob of well-salted butter, and a slick of olive oil to round out the flavor.

You can think of the herbs in one of two ways. One, use a million different herbs that give big jolts of surprising flavor, ranging from mint to rosemary to parsley to chervil and lemon verbena. Two, rely on one