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Hmm...reading over this thread has made me realize just how little I actually eat potatoes...Sweet Potatoes I devourer quite often...but your basic potato...not so much.
Now,don't get me wrong...I eat the occasional batch of hashbrowns..and I love steak fries...but as general rule...I always opt for sweet potato.
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The Mayans had countless varieties of potatos and they were smart enough to predict the end of the world, just saying.
Mashed potatos, french fries, waffle fries, garlic fries, cajun fries, potatos au gratin, corned beef and cabbage(I'm sure there's a potato there somewhere), pot roast with carrots and potatos, scalloped potatos, baked potatos, potato cakes, potato bread, vodka, replacement power source for a lightbulb, curly fries, hash browns, etc.
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Dreadwinter wrote:
Give me some mashed potatoes...
Mashed potatoes are a cruel joke played on millions of children by their grandmothers, perpetuating the misconception that they are either edible, or good.
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Garlic whipped potatoes. You take some potatoes and mashed them, with chopped garlic, butter, and a dash of whole milk. Then you run it though a blender. Add garnish (I suggest chopped green onion) and enjoy.
Although homemade fries in cajun-seasoning is a favourite of mine: Basically you chop up some potatoes and then rub them with canola oil. Onto this layer of oil goes a firm shaking of seasoning, and the oil helps it stick, as well as cooking it into the surface of your chipped potatoes. Cook in your oven on 400lbs on a sheet, and flip them over when they start to look slightly crispy so they don't burn to the pan from the oil.
They can be made bland (I'm with Dogma that mashed is baby/old people food), but are so easy to make good. Hash browns are awesome. Pan fries are awesome. Oven-roasted potato wedges are awesome. Various kinds and types of fries are awesome. Potato chips are, in general, overrated but can be made delicious with a bit of salt and vinegar.
My wife, who comes from a very different food culture by the Black Sea, is similarly enamored with potatoes; though for some inexplicable reason she likes mashed as well.
When we went on a tour of Bohemia a couple of years ago, potatoes featured prominently in one of our primary laughs of the trip. In Prague, the tour group had a big dinner at this fantastic, enormous (we walked through three or four different dining areas on the way to our dining area) brewery/restaurant downtown. The beer was the best I've had anywhere, and the food was pretty tasty, but while the menu had English translations for most items, it had none for the side dishes. We asked the waitress if they had any kind of potatoes to go with our roasted joint of pork. She, with her limited English (and apparently nonexistent Bulgarian, Serbian, or Croatian), indicated "No, no potatoes", which became one of our traveling maxims- "There are no potatoes in Prague."
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greenskin lynn wrote:fried potatoes with some sweet onion and a splash of worchestershire sauce once theyre done, food of the gods
fun fact-i don't believe i've ever gotten a waffle from waffle house, only delicious hash browns
You're not missing much. On my recent vacation to Tennesse, I finally ate at a Waffle House, and found the actual waffle to be disappointing, while the hashbrowns lived up to the hype.
Nurglitch wrote:Garlic whipped potatoes. You take some potatoes and mashed them, with chopped garlic, butter, and a dash of whole milk. Then you run it though a blender. Add garnish (I suggest chopped green onion) and enjoy.
This.
Anyone who suggests that mashed potatoes are supposed to be lumpy has never had proper mashed potatoes. A ricer is also appropriate for making mashed potatoes.
Nurglitch wrote:Garlic whipped potatoes. You take some potatoes and mashed them, with chopped garlic, butter, and a dash of whole milk. Then you run it though a blender. Add garnish (I suggest chopped green onion) and enjoy.
This.
Anyone who suggests that mashed potatoes are supposed to be lumpy has never had proper mashed potatoes. A ricer is also appropriate for making mashed potatoes.
Sorry but mashed potatoes are different to potato puree.
Nurglitch wrote:Garlic whipped potatoes. You take some potatoes and mashed them, with chopped garlic, butter, and a dash of whole milk. Then you run it though a blender. Add garnish (I suggest chopped green onion) and enjoy.
This.
Anyone who suggests that mashed potatoes are supposed to be lumpy has never had proper mashed potatoes. A ricer is also appropriate for making mashed potatoes.
Sorry but mashed potatoes are different to potato puree.
Sure. You don't need to blend the potatoes. I typically use garlic, butter, cream, milk, onion, spring onions and bacon; throw them on top of the potatoes and mash away. Cheese on the top.
You have a whole meal. Or at least the caloric content of one.
Mashed Potatoes need to be used in the right way or they will fail, the right way being thick gravy, sasuages or some other grilled meat and peas.
Otherwise I agree not good at all.
My favourite way for potatoes atm is a wedge roasted thing Aurelia does.
Half boil the potatoes, cut into long quarters, dress with oil, herbs and some spice and cook off in a hot over for 30mins till they go crispy on the outside, but still thick enough they are soft near the middle.
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I have disliked potatoes ever since I threw up a baked potato and it came out my nose as well as my mouth.
I had potato skins and bacon bits stuck in my nostrils of about 12 hours afterwards and the smell of that half digested potato on top of a killer case of the flue was too much for me.
Ma55ter_fett wrote:I have disliked potatoes ever since I threw up a baked potato and it came out my nose as well as my mouth.
I had potato skins and bacon bits stuck in my nostrils of about 12 hours afterwards and the smell of that half digested potato on top of a killer case of the flue was too much for me.
I am sorry for your loss. However, it does mean that there are more potatoes for me!
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Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:Mashed Potatoes need to be used in the right way or they will fail, the right way being thick gravy, sasuages or some other grilled meat and peas.
Ahtman wrote:Out of plain boredom while I sit her at 2 in the morning trying to finish my BBW porn collection (I know, don't judge me!) I've come to the realization that I really, REALLY don't like potatoes all that much. Why? Because to me, the average potato is bland, only being promoted to greatness by Idaho's Agricultural-Industrial complex that has promoted it as a particularly manly side dish: "Meat and potatoes", the promotion of french fries in all fast food restaurants, and you cant go to a cook out without someone bringing a bag of chips/crisps.
Potatoes are a platform for the delivery of greatness, like cake is merely a platform for the delivery of frosting.
-Baked potato with cheese and butter and bacon - proof of the existence of Satan!
-Properly done steak fries with salt. Yes!
aforementioned steak fries with chicheknfired steack cream gravy. Yes!
Fraz, you just gave me a foodgasm. I was like "okay... okay... oh dear god YES!"
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Samus_aran115 wrote:
Proud of the fact that I don't know what BBW stands for.
They don't normally stand for anything, all fours is good for amusement.
Vaguley on topic now,
Dahl..its the food of the gods, buttery mashed potatoes are at the summit as well.
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Polonius wrote:
greenskin lynn wrote:fried potatoes with some sweet onion and a splash of worchestershire sauce once theyre done, food of the gods
fun fact-i don't believe i've ever gotten a waffle from waffle house, only delicious hash browns
You're not missing much. On my recent vacation to Tennesse, I finally ate at a Waffle House, and found the actual waffle to be disappointing, while the hashbrowns lived up to the hype.
Stop this foolishness. Waffle House has amazing waffles; sweet and nommy. A triple order of hashbrowns all the way, though; that can be heaven after a night of heavy drinking.
Potatoes are awesome in all of their forms, I particularly like corned beef hash when im stateside as its not as common here.
While im on, bread is fething ace as well.
I heard that the savage people of the world eat rice and pasta for staples?!
Barbarians!
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