First things first: I avoided making these initially because there is no such thing as an onion soup mix that doesn’t taste like ass. But, after going through the first round of recipes that I made, I realized that I didn’t have enough pictures scattered throughout the book, so this one is one of those that I made because I knew I could choke it down—as opposed to all of the intensely shitty recipes that used ingredients not fit for human consumption, such as coconut or walnuts.
A caveat before we get started: This recipe must have first been written in 1975, when they were called Radar Ranges, because there isn’t a microwave that has been made in the past 30 years which would fit a casserole dish today. So, I used a large bowl instead.
Here’s what you’ll need:
6 Potatoes, peeled and sliced
½ Pkg. Onion Soup Mix
4 Tbsp. Butter, melted
½ tsp. Rosemary, crushed
Place sliced potatoes in a casserole dish and sprinkle soup mix over the top. Pour melted butter and sprinkle rosemary over the top.
Cover and microwave on high for 8 minutes.
Remove from the microwave, stir, and cook for another 3-8 minutes or until fork tender.
These are…edible. Honestly, if I were to make something like this again, I would definitely not use the onion soup mix. I’d probably use some various and sundry herbs and spices and add more butter.
Onion soup mix – used equally as frequently as, and interchangeably with Italian salad dressing mix back in the day.
It is weird that they felt the need to add the soup mix when potatoes in butter and rosemary would be just fine. People just got brainwashed into using more than they needed and adding to their work.
This probably says quite a lot about me. You know how when you were small you’d come home from school and you’d be plopped in front of a TV and given snacks? Well, at least I was. My snack of choice for a couple of years was crackers with French onion dip made from instant soup mix and my mother indulged me in this. Monday through Friday I attended a cocktail party that kicked off at 2 or 2:30 PM with my special guests Darren and Samantha Stevens and her mother Endora, plus any other relatives that cared to drop by.
By the time I was in…3rd grade, I think, I was plopping myself in front of the TV with a snack when I got home from school because both my parents were working. This made for a major bout of weight gain on my part because there was nobody there to stop me from gorging myself.
But, I did watch all of those shows: Bewitched, Gilligan’s Island, Andy Griffith, shitloads of cartoons, etc.
“Add more butter” is always a sound strategy.