I love spuds in all forms. I, being Indian, like cooking curries where spuds are that main ingredient. I love makinga stir-fry of chopped up potatoes and fresh green beans with garlic, ginger and some serrano peppers. Also like mashed potatoes and the Irish dish, colcannon.
Damn, I do love my spuds, you would think I was a potato farmer from Ireland!!!!!

The way my Irish Grannie taught me:

Heat a large pyrex dish in the oven with about 3/4 inch of oil in the bottom.

Peel and cut Russet potatoes into chunks. I usually cut them into halves width-wise. Redskins and Yukons have a weird starch content and the don't come out as good.

Place into your preheated oil and bake/ fry them until golden brown deliciousness appears. Serve with your Sunday roast and drown in beef gray.

Monitor your oil temp and don't start a fire! (As Grannie often did).

Yum!

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Originally posted by mr kablammo:
For myself, after working in produce in a supermarket and sticking my thumb into nasty rotten stinky slimey potatoes I no longer trust whole potatoes. Pototoes at the Casa Kablammo are peeled and sliced for inspection prior to cooking. After the nasty parts are cut out, souped, mashed, pancaked, browned, chowdered, and curried.

A cardinal rule of kablammo cooking is *never trust the potato*.

Same here after many years working in restaurants. Though, I'll make an exception for Hasselback (which I still need to try) since you're slicing all of the potato up enough to have a good look at what's going on inside.

Few things in a kitchen smell worse than rotten beans and potatoes.

As a result of this thread, I fixed a Hasselback spud last night for supper and it was yummy.

I like my spuds traveling at about 300fps from my tater cannon.

I have already informed the wife that supper tomorrow will be hash browns with onions, backed up with pinto beans and cornbread.

They are just about the perfect food. Fried, mashed, salad, cheezy, baked, roasted, chipped, or othewise, they are the best.

I just found an AWESOME bacon/ranch potato salad that I make, othewise I make baked potatos, or scalloped, or roasted, or mashed.

I can pick at least 3 kick ass dishes for each type. If ya want one, just ask.

Just saw this posted yesterday:



Every Way to Cook a Potato (63 Methods) | Bon Appétit

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Originally posted by gw3971:
Baked with butter, salt and pepper. Simple.

Plus pork roast gravy.

Or just boiled new potatoes with same gravy or just good buttered up.

Or breakfast fried potatoes with.....Miracle Whip on it. Everythings better with Miracle Whip on it

Or just hash browns stirred up with over easy eggs and sausage