Potatoes For A Yellow Day
It is the full moon in Libra, and it is Mercury’s day, and it is a yellow day. It is also a grey day, literally and in colour metaphor and I happen to find these things quite beautiful together. There is ice outside on everything and it is April. Yellow follows me everywhere and I wear grey pyjamas. I decide to make potatoes and realize they are yellow potatoes, and I eat them with eggs that have bright yellow yolks. The eggs look like moons and the potatoes also kind of look like moons and it feels good to care for myself and I am also very sleepy as moons make me so the potatoes feel comforting in that and they also feel fresh and bright and earthy sort of like the first full moon of spring and of the astrological season. I woke up today and my colour was yellow, and my therapist was wearing a yellow shirt but I didn’t tell her that was perfectly aligned and we talked about anxiety which is also very yellow.
Enjoy,
INGREDIENTS I RECOMMEND:
small, new-ish potatoes
salt
pepper
lemon rind
garlic
fresh tyme
olive oil
butter
I don’t know how much, I just make whatever amount feels good. be generous with everything. use a lot of flavour.
HOW I WOULD DO IT:
I would put my oven on 400-ish and then turn on my favourite burner
on that burner I would put a pot with enough salted water to cover and cook the amount of potatoes I wanted to eat
I would take that amount of potatoes and put them in the pot once the water is boiled
when the potatoes were cooking I would check them with a fork every once in a while until it easily slides through
then I would take a strainer spoon thing and put the potatoes on a baking sheet with parchment paper - maybe I would get this ready earlier if I was really on it
then I would take a cup with more parchment paper covering the bottom and smash all the potatoes
the potatoes would then get adorned with olive oil, flaky salt, cracked pepper, lil sprigs of thyme
I’d find my microplane and grated a clove of garlic, scooping its sticky pulp off the back and rubbing it into all of the potatoes
and I’d also grate some fresh lemon peel, but I’d smack the side of the microplane because it’s not sticky and will fall on the potatoes nicely
I’d put them in the oven until more crispy - somewhere like 20-30 minutes, but I don’t really count just take them out impatiently every so often
when they are sufficiently crispy I remove them from the oven and make some very regular, however I like them fried eggs
I put little pieces of butter on the still hot potatoes to melt while my eggs become how I want them
I put arugula on my plate, I put potatoes on my plate, I put eggs on my plate
I drizzle it all with olive oil and more salt and pepper
if I’m in the mood I will smother the potatoes in mayonnaise (I’m usually in the mood)
