Simple enough…
French fried, baby! Then baked with butter, green onions and bacon. Then mashed. Then boiled. I guess roasted comes in here.
Never, ever au gratin…that’s just wrong.
cooked, other than that it’s all good.
Au gratin. Cheese makes everything better.
The Greek way, roasted with olive oil, lemon, salt and tons of garlic.
I like all those. I guess baked edged out the others, but that may be because I eat french fried all the time. If I ate less fries, I’d miss the other more.
Also, I consider potato wedges a seperate category, and chips, potato pancakes, and hash browns (along with their poor cousins home and cottage fries) should be on the list. Oh yeah, and now the spicy Deannies type potatos I make, and potato kugel, my friends recipe called flat fries (1/4 inch thick slices of potatos fried in a pan). That’s just potatos pretty straight up, you’ve also got the potatos in hash, and stews, and the potatoes I add to Indian dishes, so curried potatos would be another one on the list. Also potato pancakes have various forms like latkes made from grated potatos and Swedish potato pancakes made from mashed potatos. Then theres all the forms of stuffed potatos, potato skins, and in soup form vichysoisse (or however that’s spelled) to ham and potato soup, and good red chowder which should be loaded with big chunks of potatos, Don’t forget potato sticks, I love to munch on those sticks. Plus there are different types of potatoes, those giant Idahos, new potatoes, red potatoes, blue potatoes, Yukon Gold potatoes, white potatoes (the best for chips). Then there’s potato salad too. I’m partial to good hot German potato salad, but I like the cold form if seasoned properly, and egg and potato salad is one my favorites. Then you get into old fashioned fish and chips with the fish wrapped in thin potato slices before battering and frying, and egg and potato sandwiches are great to. Even those bizzare manufactured products like tater tots and rings and other shapes can turn out well. I haven’t even started on roasted and steamed potatos and the different seasonings that can be added. And potato dumplings, pierogies, and gnocchi can’t be disregarded either.
Maybe I should have clicked on ‘other’.
Chips. 1 Part Miss Vicky’s Jalepeno to 1 Part Old Dutch Barbecue mixed together.
baked with sour cream. during the holidays, baked using rendered goose fat.
I voted for mashed but I’ll take them just about any way I can get them. I even like them raw… :eek:
I was going to ask what the other options people liked were, so… thanks?
I didn’t really consider “chips” or “crisps” but I should have.
My favorite way is, I call it, smashed.
Boil new red potatoes, diced. Dump into bowl with butter and cream cheese and salt. Mix with vigor, causing them to become a little mashed but big chunks remaining. Eat.
I voted “other” because I can’t pick a favorite from the list. I have a hard time thinking of a potato-food that I don’t like, except for something like potato salad with too much egg in it. Wait a minute, though…I just had some “7 Select” Hot Dog-Flavored Potato Chips, and they weren’t too hot.
What’s the difference between baked and roasted? Baked are done whole and roasted are cut up into chunks?
I was scratching my head too, and trying to figure it out. I eventally had an “aha” and sussed that it probably means this kind of potato.
So then I voted the right way. Go roasted potato! Au gratin is fine too. The rest I may not actively seek out, but are tasty.
Yes. Roasted tend to be smaller chunks, well done, often coated with olive oil (or similar) and turned into delicious, savory morsels. (Yes, that WAS my vote!)
Scalloped potatoes for me! Especially when the cheese is crusty on the top and stringy on the inside. Mmm.
EDIT: And today I learned that scalloped potatoes and potatoes au gratin are the same thing.
I voted for Roasted, but your poll is missing Latkes.
Fried, but not necessarily french fried.
Make mine mashed.
I picked “baked” but immediately after I realized I love potato skins! Whenever I go to Applebees I get a plate of delicious, cheesy, sour creamy… Drool.