Let's Talk Potatos

How Do You Like Your Potatos, and What Foods Do You Like to Eat Them With?

  • Mashed - skin off

    Votes: 7 11.9%

  • Smashed - skin on

    Votes: 4 6.8%

  • French Fried/Curly Fried/Waffle Fried

    Votes: 7 11.9%

  • Baked - Oven

    Votes: 13 22.0%

  • Baked - BBQ

    Votes: 1 1.7%

  • Home Fries/Hash Browns

    Votes: 13 22.0%

  • Potato Salad

    Votes: 3 5.1%

  • Scalloped/Au Gratin

    Votes: 7 11.9%

  • Other

    Votes: 3 5.1%

  • I Don't Eat Potatos

    Votes: 1 1.7%
  • Total voters
    59
Alnamvet68

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Yes, potatos. Like the egg, the humble potato is served and prepared in a variety of ways, and as an accompaniment with a variety of foods. So, how do you like 'em?

Post your pics, post your recipes, and tell us why you can't live without potatos. :D
 
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My Irish friend serves them just like this....yum!

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joe52853 said:
I can't vote on this one as I like potatoes cooked any style listed in poll.
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Yeah' tough choice's there Joe*
.. So I went with the Healthiest. (oven baked) :)

This morning I had a couple of Crispy' fried (shreded)
Tater's with 4 Extra Large' brown Egg's (Easy Over) on top. :eek:
.. don't tell my doctor*

~ Joe
 
I've got a couple of favorite recipes.

Red Potatoes
Boil about 8 or so red potatoes, skins on.

Drain, plop in a stick of butter, salt and pepper, and mix in about a cup of sour cream.

Mash with a fork and mix everything up well. Great with steak.


Dutch Oven Potatoes
Scrub and slice about 8 or 10 russet potatoes. Leave skins on.
Brown ½ pound of chopped bacon in Dutch oven. Remove bacon and most of the grease.

Add one sliced onion.

Add potatoes, salt and pepper, one cup of sliced mushrooms, garlic, and a little bit of parsley.

Return bacon to oven. Stir to mix everything together.

Then add about ½ can of ginger ale, Sprite, or something similar.

Put the lid on the Dutch oven and cook in the coals for about an hour.

Good with steak, barbecued Dutch oven ribs, or Dutch oven chicken.
 
Speaking of potato soup, another one of my must have items I requested in my "care package" when I was in the sandbox was vichyssoise.
 
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My favorites aren't listed

Somehow thru oversite, you left vodka off the list for the poll. Got to be the best all-around use for the spud.

Another favorite is lefse. Although I don't claim to be Norskie, they do know how to cook.

Try lefse with cream cheese & smoked salmon. Now that makes the ordinary potato into a tasty treat fit for a king!
 
Gee, I just realized I could have added to the poll a potato chip choice. Who loves potato chips, and what kind; salt free, specially seasoned, Amish styled thick cuts, kettle cooked, crinkle cut, parchment paper thin, baked....
 
.....Kugelis.....

This is a Lithuanian dish that my family makes mainly during the holiday seasons..............

potatoes, eggs, bacon, onions, evaporated milk, black pepper. serve with sour cream.
 

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I like them too many ways for me to pick one in the polls. One of my favorite ways to prepare the potato is the twice baked way. You bake the potato, & after it is done you cut a thin slice off of it lengthwise. Then you scoop out the potato, leaving a shell. Mix the potato flesh with salt, pepper, grated cheddar cheese, crumbled bacon & an uncooked egg. Stir well, then fill your potato "shell" with the mixture. Pop it back in the oven until its a golden brown. Good eating!:cool:
 
Oh my, I forgot another fave of mine, potato latke, or simply potato pancakes. Homemade latke with homemade apple sauce...to die for.
 
Alnamvet68 said:
Gee, I just realized I could have added to the poll a potato chip choice. Who loves potato chips, and what kind; salt free, specially seasoned, Amish styled thick cuts, kettle cooked, crinkle cut, parchment paper thin, baked....
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Salt & Vinegar, even though I need to avoid Sodium!:mad:
 
Nobody can make placki kartoflane better than I can, my mother's recipe of course.

Polish Potato Pancakes, mine are made thick rather than thin.
A bowl of tomato soup, some sour cream and I am in heaven.

Basic foods we shared with family are sometimes the best one can eat.

I know what I am having for dinner tonight:)
 
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I voted for smashed with skin on but really there is no way I DON'T like 'em.
What do they go with? Why, evrything. Eggs in the morning. Sammiches at lunch. Any meat you and possibly think of for dinner. Baked, Fried, scalloped, mashed, boiled. au-gratin, It just don't matter you can't hurt a potato.

They even make good snack food and appetizers. Shoestring potatos, Tater skins, Tater chips, Tater tots. Perhaps the most edible food item there is.....and all of them are GOOOOOOD! :)
 
Throwing mickies at the crew of the ship that just resupplied us during a westpac cruise and receiving them back as well. Frank
 
My son makes mashed taters that are one of the best things I have ever eaten. I asked him what was in them and immediately wished I hadn't. He put in bacon-bacon grease, butter, sour cream, shredded cheddar cheese and chopped green onions. :eek: my lord those were the best tasting taters-I don't even want to think about the fat calories that were in them!!!
He found out early that the girls LOVE a guy who isn't afraid to get in the kitchen and get to cookin' ;) His sisters tell me that he has quite the reputation in that area. :rolleyes:
 
"He found out early that the girls LOVE a guy who isn't afraid to get in the kitchen and get to cookin'"

God's own truth. Learned to cook from my Grandpa (lumberjack cook) and Grandma (the camp's baker). Always cooked for my dates and, 25 years later, still most of the family's cooking. Polished things up when I was in grad school==where having cheese on your burger is a hard decision (whether to spend the extra nickel). We had an elk, a large Wyoming mulie, and a wild hog=had to make that do for over 2 years until I graduated!

Here's one I modified from "Mining Camp Potatoes" in the book Real Men Don't Eat Quiche=I call it Lumber Camp Potatoes after my grandpa. Sorta fries and sorta home fries.

Fry one pound of bacon, drain and set aside.Reserve grease.
Slice potatoes (up to 2 pounds or so)=Yukon Gold work the best.About 1/2" thick.
Coarsely dice one yellow onion and the tops of one bunch of green onions.
Toss potatoes in hot bacon fat. Cook until crispy (cover to cook through). Add yellow onions about 1/2 through with a big spoonful of FRESH oregano or home-dried.Add pepper but NO SALT!
Crumble bacon and add just before removing from stove. Toss and garnish with green onion.
Sprinkle sea salt just before serving (Adding salt during cooking will toughen the potatoes and break down the fat.)
 
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Al,
You really need to stop doing this. Since you first posted the balut I have been waking up each morning wondering what's next.

You have shot my diet to heck.:D I was just staring at a can of sardines for breakfast.

Now potatoes? where will it end?
Russ
 
Tenn2 said:
Al,
You really need to stop doing this. Since you first posted the balut I have been waking up each morning wondering what's next.

You have shot my diet to heck.:D I was just staring at a can of sardines for breakfast.

Now potatoes? where will it end?
Russ
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I am driven by His Eminence. At the moment, I'm thinking up another food thread that should make your day.:D
 
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