Roasted Little Red Potatoes With Dill

These potatoes are a great side dish or even as a single lunch dish, served with some good bread. I've found that using the dill from the beginning of roasting simply causes it to darken and dry out or even burn. I add the dill when I turn the potatoes during roasting.

Ingredients:

1 pound small red potatoes, thoroughly washed and dried, then halved (quartered for larger potatoes)
2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
about 2 tablespoons dry adobo seasoning*
1 to 2 teaspoons chopped dill (fresh or dried) 

Heat the oven to 450 F. Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil. Place the potato pieces in a bowl, add the extra virgin olive oil and dry adobo seasoning. Mix well to coat all of the potato pieces. Arrange the potatoes on the baking sheet in a single layer. Roast the potatoes 20 minutes, then remove them from the oven and sprinkle some dill over them, then turn them over, sprinkle some dill over that side and return the potatoes to the oven until fork tender (about a total of 30 minutes or a little more). Optional: sprinkle on more chopped dill and drizzle a little extra virgin olive oil over the roasted potatoes before serving.

WORD HISTORY:
Smith-This word, often used in compounds over the centuries,^ is also the source of the family name. It goes back to Indo European "smei," with the meaning, "to cut and work with a cutting tool or tools." This gave its Old Germanic offspring "smiþa(n)" (þ=th) meaning "craftsman, skilled worker." This gave Old English "smiþ" meaning "one who works with metals or wood, a craftsman, a carpenter." This then became "smith/smyth." The earliest recorded use as a name in England was in 975. The verb form in Old English was "smiþian," meaning "to shape and create objects from metal or wood." This then became "smythen," by which time the meaning had narrowed to "metal work, often involving heat and hammering the metal to shape it." Relatives in the other Germanic languages: German has "Schmied," meaning "metal worker, blacksmith," and like its English cousin used for a family name (with variants like Schmitt, Schmidt), and the verb "schmieden" meaning "to work metal with heat and hammer, to design, to plan"), Low German has "Smitt" and the verb "smeden," West Frisian "smid"(?), Dutch "smid," with the same spelling used for the noun and the verb, Danish "smed" and the verb "smede," Icelandic "smiður," and the verb "smíða," Norwegian "smed" and the verb "smi," Swedish "smed," with the same spelling used for both the noun and the verb.   

^ For example: blacksmith, tinsmith, goldsmith, silversmith, locksmith, gunsmith, hammersmith and others.