recipe: balsamic roasted red potatoes

i needed a side to make with pork roast tonight... which i was so happy about finally making the roast i hadn't bought any side ingredients or thought through a new recipe i wanted to test. i had a few red potatoes on hand and figured might as well make old-trusty Balsamic Roasted Red Potatoes recipe from allrecipes.com. i always fall back to this recipe, even though my fav potatoes ever are the simple seasoned roasted potatoes you get in little italy - i've just never ever been able to get that perfect toasty crunch to mine so avoid that version all together.

ingredients list:

- 2 tbsp olive oil

- 2 lbs small red potatoes, quartered

- 1 tbsp chopped green onion-
- 6 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 tsp dried thyme
- 1 tsp dried rosemary, crushed
- 1 tiny pinch ground nutmeg
- 1/4 cup balsamic vinegar
- salt
- cracked black pepper

to make:
preheat oven to 400 degrees. in a large skillet, heat olive oil over medium-high heat. add onion and garlic to skillet, and sautee for about 1 minute. add potatoes, thyme, rosemary, and nutmeg and stir to combine, cooking for about 3 minutes until potatoes are hot.  

add potatoes to a 15" x 10" greased baking pan, stirring in balsamic vinegar. bake for 35-40 minutes until potatoes are fully cooked through, stirring frequently. season with salt and pepper to taste.

verdict on this one... it's always solid and an easy go-to recipe, but it's never AS good as it should be. balsamic = amazing, roasted potatoes = amazing, but it's always really good, just not knocking off my socks (and maybe it's because i'm always comparing it to little italy roasted potatoes?). still a good recipe that i will make, but will continue to struggle with that expectation time and time again. solid fiver *****.