Oven Roasted Potatoes

The recipe featured here is for oven roasted potatoes. If you are passionate about potatoes, you are going to enjoy the flavors from this recipe. The potatoes selected for this recipe were Yukon Gold.

The variety of potato will easily melt in your mouth. Yukon Gold potatoes can easily be grown in your own backyard garden.

This recipe calls for peeled potatoes. There are two ways you can peel the potatoes: Firstly, you can boil the potatoes, and the peel will slip off. Second, you can peel the potatoes first then boil them. Either method is fine for the recipe.

Potatoes are the world's fourth largest food followed by rice, wheat and maize. It was believed that potatoes were first cultivated around 8000 BC to 5000 BC. Meanwhile in Ireland, Sir Walter Raleigh introduced the potatoes to the people in 1589 through cultivating his 40,000 acres of land. Four decades afterward, potatoes had spread over the entire Europe.

In October 1995, the potato became the first vegetable to be grown in space. The goal of NASA was to help the astronauts gain more energy on their long journey. Potatoes can easily be grown in a large potato growing bag, and you can do it yourself, even if you only have a small baloney space.

In the old century, people used potato as part of medicinal remedies that can promote healing, prevent indigestion, facial wash, treat frostbite and sunburn, aid in toothache, treat sore throat and help reduce aches and pains of the body. Many of these remedies were done by just rubbing the potato on the painful area.

Today, potatoes have become part of our daily diet. There are many varieties of potatoes you can choose from, and they are all delicious with their own distinct tastes.

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