Nigel Slater - New Potatoes, Garlic, Peppers

New Potatoes, Garlic, Peppers.
Recipe Book: Nigel Slater's Greenfeast (Spring/Summer)
Review: 4 stars for this one! It was really tasty but didn't blow us away. Finally managed to get hold of some Romano Peppers for this one - Aldi to the rescue!
I think I should've just stopped cooking last week, it seemed like I had a mare with most of the recipes I attempted. So this is how this one went...
700g new potatoes sliced thinly - I used my mandolin on its thickest setting, prepped everything and started cooking...
Using my nice new shallow cast iron casserole pan I started on the peppers - nicely done - now on to the potatoes 'cooking them in one layer if possible' Bloody hell! How am I supposed to do that I've got blinking millions of them because you said to slice them thinly Nigel!!! So my nice thin new potatoes did not go nice and brown and then just get turned over, they got cooked and cooked and cooked in the hopes of them eventually going nice and brown like in the picture...did they? No. Gave up after a while and just dished up. To be fair its still tasted pretty good but I was disappointed that I'd failed yet again.

Aga conversion: I toggled pretty much between both hotplates for this one as I'm on an electric DC3 Aga.

Will I make this again? Probably, for something different.

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