Fake Santa Fe Potatoes

Here's the most recent way I've been trying to cook up breakfast potatoes similar to the way I remember them from my childhood. Basically you boil the potatoes to get them nice and soft, then fry them to crispify the outsides.

• start some water boiling, enough to cover however many potatoes you're cooking

• chop up some small red potatoes, cut them now because they're too hot once you boil them. You can guess how I figured that out. Slice them or chop them multiple ways to make whatever shape you prefer.

• drop the potatoes into the boiling water and bring it back up to boiling. The smaller you chopped them the faster they will cook. 5-8 minutes probably, definitely done when they float or just poke a fork into one and check for tenderness.

• when they're just about done heat up a frying pan with some butter in it. You could use any kind of oil as well, but butter tastes good! I recommend heating the pan up first because your potatoes will be pretty soft when you transfer them and you want the outside to get crispy right away and seal the potato up before it breaks into a million bits.

• 4 or 5 minutes of frying, stirred and flipped periodically and you're done. Salt and pepper them to taste and enjoy. I often saute some onions up in the same frying pan too, because that's just a natural combination.