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😃🇺🇸🥔☀️❗️ What's Your Favorite Tater Dish? (Original Post) Floyd R. Turbo Mar 2020 OP
Scalloped, like my mom used to make, with onions Walleye Mar 2020 #1
Oh yea! 😋 Floyd R. Turbo Mar 2020 #3
You are sending low-carbers into spasms of salivating cravings! hlthe2b Mar 2020 #2
Mea culpa! 😃 Floyd R. Turbo Mar 2020 #4
All of them. Literally. pnwest Mar 2020 #5
😋 Floyd R. Turbo Mar 2020 #7
Fried with onions in a cast iron skillet, preferably in a little bacon grease. Arkansas Granny Mar 2020 #6
😋 Floyd R. Turbo Mar 2020 #8
Had An Aunt Did That, Ma'am The Magistrate Mar 2020 #13
I make them like my mother did. Slice the potatoes thin, use just enough Arkansas Granny Mar 2020 #15
Thank You, Ma'am The Magistrate Mar 2020 #16
Everyone of these Floyd TEB Mar 2020 #9
😋 Floyd R. Turbo Mar 2020 #10
Tots! C_U_L8R Mar 2020 #11
Hassleback potatoes! PJMcK Mar 2020 #12
well.. Keth Mar 2020 #14
Home fries made from scratch Phoenix61 Mar 2020 #17
Cottage fries, French fries, potato chips. Polly Hennessey Mar 2020 #18
Twice-baked nuxvomica Mar 2020 #19
Warm German potato salad. And Hotler Mar 2020 #20
Making it simple: They're all my favorites. sarge43 Mar 2020 #21
I love just plain mashed, but they have to be light and fluffy, so you have to be sure smirkymonkey Mar 2020 #22
Pierogi and gnocci NotASurfer Mar 2020 #23
Love those too! smirkymonkey Apr 2020 #24
Arugula GreydeeThos Apr 2020 #25
The cooking group sometimes discusses air fryers Freddie Apr 2020 #26
New potatoes in the air fryer iamateacher Apr 2020 #30
Something my dear mom MFM008 Apr 2020 #27
Couch underpants Apr 2020 #28
potato salad rampartc Apr 2020 #29
a plate of mashed potatoes & a dee[ gravy lake, but i like baked w/ gravy too. + i am pro lumps. pansypoo53219 Apr 2020 #31

hlthe2b

(102,197 posts)
2. You are sending low-carbers into spasms of salivating cravings!
Tue Mar 31, 2020, 08:44 AM
Mar 2020

Any of 'em. I'd eat them all if I could.

Arkansas Granny

(31,513 posts)
6. Fried with onions in a cast iron skillet, preferably in a little bacon grease.
Tue Mar 31, 2020, 08:52 AM
Mar 2020

I like them browned to the point of almost burnt.

The Magistrate

(95,244 posts)
13. Had An Aunt Did That, Ma'am
Tue Mar 31, 2020, 09:35 AM
Mar 2020

Pure ambrosia. Have never managed to duplicate it, and would like too. Have you any tips?

Arkansas Granny

(31,513 posts)
15. I make them like my mother did. Slice the potatoes thin, use just enough
Tue Mar 31, 2020, 09:52 AM
Mar 2020

bacon grease to lightly coat the potatoes when you toss them and fry them at a medium high heat.

I think the cast iron has a lot to do with it since it distributes the heat so evenly. I hope this helps.

The Magistrate

(95,244 posts)
16. Thank You, Ma'am
Tue Mar 31, 2020, 10:01 AM
Mar 2020

I will keep plugging away. We do have a nice old cast-iron skillet.

The nearest I have managed so far has been in a wok, with a good pool of bacon grease in the well. Where I grew up, bacon grease was employed for just about everything, there was always a tin of it out on the counter. I was nine before I ever saw a bright yellow scrambled egg....

PJMcK

(22,025 posts)
12. Hassleback potatoes!
Tue Mar 31, 2020, 09:30 AM
Mar 2020

They're in the upper-right corner. They're fantastic even though they are a little fussy to make. They're crispy on the outside and creamy on the inside.

Fondant potatoes, in the lower-left corner, are also quite delicious but have too many steps. More importantly, they're incredibly messy and you end up with spattered oil on your stove top and splattered oil al over the inside of your oven.

Actually, I'm with pnwest above: I love them all! Especially hash browns and German potato pancakes.

Damn it, Floyd, now I'm hungry!

Keth

(184 posts)
14. well..
Tue Mar 31, 2020, 09:42 AM
Mar 2020

I'm gonna say McDonald's French fries - when they are hot and fresh you can't beat them. They have to be hot, sprinkle a little salt and pepper on them, and eat them in five minutes. And no ketchup.

Second would be mashed potatoes with garlic and butter.

Phoenix61

(17,000 posts)
17. Home fries made from scratch
Tue Mar 31, 2020, 10:20 AM
Mar 2020

Some white and sweet potatoes, some minced onion and green pepper, fried in lots of butter. Topped with turkey sausage milk gravy

Polly Hennessey

(6,793 posts)
18. Cottage fries, French fries, potato chips.
Tue Mar 31, 2020, 10:30 AM
Mar 2020

Oh, what the heck, I love 🥔 any which way. Agree that pan fried, almost burnt, is heaven.

nuxvomica

(12,419 posts)
19. Twice-baked
Tue Mar 31, 2020, 11:00 AM
Mar 2020

A simple recipe that's surprisingly difficult to do right, as you have to gouge out the potatoes from the skins without ruining them. Once I've got the mashed in the skins, I score with a fork and top with a pad of butter and a generous sprinkle of paprika.

sarge43

(28,941 posts)
21. Making it simple: They're all my favorites.
Tue Mar 31, 2020, 11:31 AM
Mar 2020

Just finished a dish of German Potato Salad mmmm

I used to eat 'em raw.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
22. I love just plain mashed, but they have to be light and fluffy, so you have to be sure
Tue Mar 31, 2020, 07:53 PM
Mar 2020

to rinse a lot of the excess starch off after cooking so they don't get heavy and gluey.

Another favorite of mine, and they only seem to be found in upstate New York where I grew up, is salt potatoes. They are kind of a summer BBQ treat and you just boil them up w/ the right amount of salt (usually included in the bag), they are small, like new potatoes, but when cooked right they are just melt-in-your-mouth creamy and so delicious, especially w/ some good butter and fresh parsley.

If you ever have a chance to try them, I would highly recommend them.

Here is a recipe where you can make them on your own. I'm not from Syracuse (about an hour or so away) but they only seem to be a "thing" in the central/upstate NY region.

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/141785/syracuse-salt-potatoes/

NotASurfer

(2,149 posts)
23. Pierogi and gnocci
Tue Mar 31, 2020, 07:57 PM
Mar 2020

Some carbs accentuating the carbs in your potato. Butter and maybe some cheese. Then, a couple hours to recover from the starch coma

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
24. Love those too!
Wed Apr 1, 2020, 01:29 AM
Apr 2020

Everything is better when it's made with potatoes!

But seriously, everyone really has to try upstate NY salt potatoes. They are the best!

Freddie

(9,258 posts)
26. The cooking group sometimes discusses air fryers
Wed Apr 1, 2020, 06:46 AM
Apr 2020

Air fryers are good for potatoes!
Any frozen potatoes (fries, tots, hash brown patties) come out GREAT in the air fryer. Also awesome for baked potatoes, especially in summer when you want a baked potato with your grilled steak but don’t want to use the oven.
But the best potato dish (IMO) is what we PA Dutch call “funeral potatoes”. It’s the casserole made with frozen hash browns, onions, canned soup, sour cream, cheese and butter, with a corn flake topping. Comfort food at its finest.

iamateacher

(1,089 posts)
30. New potatoes in the air fryer
Wed Apr 1, 2020, 08:18 AM
Apr 2020

A little olive oil, garlic powder, and dried parsley....They come out perfect.

MFM008

(19,803 posts)
27. Something my dear mom
Wed Apr 1, 2020, 06:52 AM
Apr 2020

Used to make .
She would shred the potatoes
Shred onions and fry them
Up.
Omg so good.

rampartc

(5,400 posts)
29. potato salad
Wed Apr 1, 2020, 07:50 AM
Apr 2020

peels on, mayo, creole mustard, boiled egg, fine chopped onion/garlic/celery, topped with paprika.

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