Food Friday: Air Fried Potato Spears/Wedges

 As you can tell from the recent dearth of blog posts, life has been quite the thing lately.  Finally here is a simple to make and quick and easy food item to share.

Since I love baked potatoes and also since I hate to heat up the oven and the kitchen with just two potatoes in the oven, I threw in six large harvest baking potatoes yesterday.  We each ate one as a baked potato.  They were so good.  I COVERED mine with fresh salsa from Sam's Club.  Yummy.

So, there were four left over.  This morning I cut two of them into wedges/spears lengthwise, used a tiny bit of oil spray on them then sprinkled on salt-free seasoning for a little umph. Then killed the benefit of salt-free by sprinkling a very tiny bit of iodized salt on top.  At this point I put them in the air fryer for 20 minutes at 375 degrees F.  They were done just as Dear One returned from his bike ride so we just sat down and ate them.  

They were nice and crispy, crunchy on the outside and soft inside. I used a lot of catsup on mine since that came to hand before the salsa, but the salsa would also have been good with these spears.

For our next meal I am planning to cut the remaining two potatoes in half, pull out the flesh, mix it with seasonings, then return to the waiting skins and bake in the oven until hot.  Or maybe use the air fryer on the baking option. We shall see.  That with slaw and veggie burger should be a good meal.  

For myself I might eat some leftover "cabbage soup" stuff that I made using some bags of nearly-gone-by slaw mix, some broccoli, and some mixed cauliflower and broccoli, as well as the last of the tomato juice plus carrots and two chopped onions.  This was only okay.  It was probably good the first go round in the Instant Pot, but I set it going then forgot about it when I went out to do some needed RS work.  When I came home it had gone off Keep Warm so I started it to pressurize again just in case a few germs might have invaded and the same thing happened...so it was pressurized three times.  Dear One ate part of a bowl but said it was bitter.  My fault entirely.  So, I will not inflict it upon him again but feel like I need to give it another try myself before disposing of it another way.

With good fortune I will get life together and become more regular in posting again.  No breath holding, though...!