Inspired by QtM’s new pleasures thread, I feel that I must share with you all my own newfound snackfood delight: Oven Fries Broiled with Bacon.
Simply place strips of bacon on the bottom of your broiler pan, cover with a good thick layer of frozen fries, and then, optionally, put a few strips of bacon on top of the pile too. Broil at 350 for about 15 min or until Fires are golden brown.
The fries soak up all the yummy bacon grease, so that no grease is wasted to clog up your drain, and the resulting dish of crispy bacon strips and crispy bacon fries is both fast, cheap, and delicious! I eat mine without salt, since the bacon is already salty, or ketchup.
How I managed to make it through life before this breakthrough, I have no idea.
Well… that totally negates the reason for eating inferior oven fries rather than delicious deep fried potato… and it involves bacon. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.*
*Pretty much neither, but it does seem a little pointless to bother with oven fries if you’re just going to use them to absorb saturated fat. And I love deep fried potato and bacon.
Wait a minute, it takes 35 minutes to cook over-processed frozen french fries?
Did you know if you cut some actual potatoes into wedges and toss the wedges with olive oil and sea salt and cracked pepper [sup]*[/sup]you can make them in 20 minutes, cooking at 450°?
And I guarantee they will taste better than your starchy french fry shaped globs.
Now if you take your baconated fires and cover them in Gravy and cheese curds you are in heaven… or hell or wherever you think you go when that massive corinary hits, enjoy.
Bacon just doesn’t work with fries for me (I tried it again when I was in Vancouver - I came this close to getting poutine, but at the last minute wimped out on the gravy part & just got the cheese and bacon.)
And it doesn’t make sense. I like potato skins with bacon and cheese, I like baked potatoes with bacon and cheese - but bacon and cheese on fries just doesn’t work. Rationally, they’re the same thing - but they just seem to taste different.
I once bought a recipe book partially because it had a recipe for something that reads vaguely like chicken fried bacon. So far, I’ve been too lazy to make it.