One new recipe: pan roasted potatoes
Last night, I roasted a chicken in the oven, and tried the pan roasted potatoes recipe from the new issue of Cook's Illustrated. I used a combination of peanut and sesame oils instead of olive oil and made up my own seasoning combination (garlic and basil, with parm cheese), but followed their instructions on the browning and cooking times, which was the part I never get right.
They turned out beautifully. I did find that I had to increase the browning time in the first step - which called for browining for 5-7 minutes' but that was because I was using a large pan on a small element and the ones on the edges were simply not getting browned. I just traded the middle ones for the edge ones and browned for another couple of minutes to get them all even. The rest of the steps worked very well, and the end result was golden brown, perfectly cooked potatoes. Truly a thing of beauty, they were.
Then, completely fucking over my diet, I ate them all.
I tried to eat only half of them (despite it really being four servings), but throughout the night, I just kept going back for more. They were even delicious cold.
All gone now, but I still have most of a five pound bag of potatoes left.