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While I'm talking about potatoes...
not french fries, belgian fries are the best.[image error]
THere's a falafel place in DC that gives a choice of ketchup, peanut sauce, or a garlic mayo for fries. Janine, do you have mango ketchup by you? I had that in Germany and really liked it.
i've never even heard of mango ketchup, but de belg (see picture below) might have it, they have a lot of options, and they make their own fries from potatoes they grow themselves.
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while we're talking about fries, this is kapsalon (hairdresser's) (fries, kebab and cheese, grilled, with a salad on top):
1800 calories!
that's the most appetizing picture of it i could find. i've never had it.
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Sally wrote: "That dish is called hairdressers?"yes, it really is. a hairdresser invented it.
Sweet potato fries are quite yummy. I like to make mine with just a hint of sugar, salt, and cinnamon.
I like crinkle cut french fries. Is it okay to be calling them french fries now or are they still supposed to be freedom fries?
Preparing food and cutting hair are not compatible. I mean, at the same time, same place. I don't imagine fried hair would be good.
I have a tie for the best potatoes I ever. The french fries with mayo served at Tivoli or the roasted potatoes with garlic mayo at this tapas place in San Francisco (I can't remember the name of the restaurant). I haven't been able to duplicate either. As far as home cooking... roasted potates which are idahos, roasted with garlic, onion, chopped bell peppers, herbs and garlic (sometimes I'll serve them with homemade garlic mayo).
I like crisp on the outside, soft on the inside. I guess the best are those steak fries, the big broad ones. I really don't like it when they're cooked hard all the way through.
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Anything that will deliver potatoes to me is my favorite delivery mechanism. Trucks, wheelbarrows, space capsules, conveyor belts, roller skates.
I love french fries, potato salad, potato skins, scalloped potatoes, waffle fries, roasted with olive oil. Some potato chips (I am very particular). I will cube potatoes and toss them into rice, or casseroles, or soup. Yukon gold have been my tater of choice for awhile. I've been disappointed by baking potatoes so I've stopped buying them.
oh, I forgot about potato skins (it's been soooo long since I have eaten them). Sounds like a good plan for Super Bowl. Yummy.
Picnic potatoes, which are just cubed potatoes baked with sour cream, cheddar cheese, onion, garlic, dill and parmesan.Potato skins.
Crinkle-cut fries straight out of the fryer.
Mashed potatoes made with cream cheese, butter and garlic chives.
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One of the things I remember most clearly from Angela's Ashes was young Frank McCourt being so hungry when he had a job delivering lunches to workmen, he couldn't resist the "floury white potato" in the lunch, and had to eat it even if it meant losing his job. I didn't look at potatoes the same way for a while after reading that book.
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Lobstergirl wrote: "I will cube potatoes and toss them into rice"Raw or fried/cooked?
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Raw or fried/cooked?"
Raw. Cube 1/2 inch or just a tad smaller. Toss them in at the beginning and they cook along with the rice.
I do this with a lot of vegetables - kale, green beans, etc. (minus the cubing.)
My favorite fries are the ones from In 'n Out. They overcook them for me, too. I love extra crispy, overdone fries.
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Sally wrote: "So I have a newfound level of poverty and a big bag of potatoes. What should I do with them to make the most food? Potato soup?"Latkes!
Shred the potatoes with your grater (2 mediums), shred a small onion, add an egg, a tbsp of flour, and salt and pepper. Shape them into small disks and fry 'em up. Serve with sour cream and/or apple sauce.
They go great with pork chops.
Widmer Gasthaus in Portland has the very best pork schnitzel with latkes/potato pancakes. I get it every time I go there.http://www.widmer.com/gasthaus.aspx
Went to the site, Larry, clicked on recipes, but nothing for pork schnitzel with latkes.Sounds like a good recipe, Aynge, but I always have trouble shredding potatoes with a grater. They come out limp and mushy.
Try squeezing the water out of them before adding the other ingredients.Version #2:
2 cups diced raw potatoes
2 eggs
½ cup chopped onion
2 cloves garlic smashed
2 Tbs potato starch or slightly more ordinary flour
½ tsp baking powder
salt and pepper to taste
oil for frying
Puree everything in a blender. Use 2 T of batter per pancake. Fry in oil. They should look like mini pancakes, or blinis.
Yum. I'm going to try your recipe. I'm not familiar with potato starch. Is it similar to corn starch?
No, it's sort of like... mashed potato flakes. But in a powder. I'm sure your average supermarket carries it.I LOVE onions, so I usually add scallions to the batter.
Yeah Scout, no recipe -- but it's definitely on the menu. You have a choice of potato pancakes, mashed, or spaetzel with the veggie of the day.Pork Schnitzel
Two tender pieces of pork loin dusted with bread crumbs then grilled golden brown and topped with lemon wine sauce. It's hard to beat a good schnitzel.
$13.95
I like the look of the Widmer Gasthaus, Larry. It reminds me of the Heidelberg restaurant here in NYC, in what used to be the Kleindeutschland neighborhood of Yorkville. The restaurant has been around for 75 years and is, at this point, slightly kitschy--but in a nice way. Entertainment often consists of a very elderly man in Leiderhosen who plays a Casio keyboard and sings a mix of old German favorites and things that he thinks of as more "hip," like his spot on imitation of Elvis's "Can't Help Falling in Love," done with a heavy German accent: vehyzz mehn zay ohnlee foolz rrrrush eeeen...A great menu:
http://www.heidelbergrestaurant.com/m...
BunWat wrote: "Hutspot - super delicious dutch dish of potato, onion, carrot and (sometimes) sausage."you should really try that sally. all you need are potatoes, carrots and onions, and some basics like salt and butter/milk. you can also throw in some bouillon cubes instead of the salt, and some sugar when you're mashing it.
Larry wrote: "Soup is good this time of year."Soup is good any time of year!
I'm making butternut squash soup today.
I love any kind of fried potato but do not usually have them because it is fried. Trying to watch my fat intake before by cholestoral levels go over 200. Maybe I have tater tots once a month when I have fish which I bake not fry. I love butternut squash soup. I make mine with apple cider, cinnamon and ginger.
Larry wrote: "I'm making butternut squash soup today."Enjoy!
Jonathan, I can hear the man in Leiderhosen singing Elvis. This was my favorite on the menu you posted:
Jaeger Schnitzel: veal cutlet,sauteed mushrooms,cream & wine. Spaetzle & red cab $24.95
Sounds really tasty, but I'm not familiar with spaetzle.
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Lobstergirl wrote: "I suspect you might mean Lederhosen (leather pants). Leiderhosen would be "unfortunately pants.""That was my mistake, actually. Funny. My German's terrible.
I'm not crazy about spätzle. It's some of that starchy, filling German fare that you get in Amish country eateries.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sp%C3%A4...
Maybe I'll try it next time I'm at the Heidelberg. Usually I'm more focused on the meat dishes and the beer, of which they have a nice selection. Also there's the decor, which includes a lot of oil paintings (not good) of snow-covered Bavarian villages, shelves lined with old beer steins and model train cars, a large Alp horn, framed photos of JFK and Jackie. It's all just accumulated over the years, I guess.
They look better if you wear one of these Tyrolean hats too:
The last time I was in New York I saw an old man wearing a Tyrolean hat in a completely unironic way. It was adorable.
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And what is your favorite potato delivery mechanism?
Mine is my mother's thinly sliced potatoes, roasted with olive oil. She has sometimes complained that her tombstone will read "those were amazing potatoes."
I also like making potato salad (no mayo) with all the cool colors: blue and red and purple etc...
That said, I don't eat a lot of potatoes these days. Sweet potatoes, yes.