Favorite way to eat potatoes

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  1. Theo

    TheoWell-Known Member

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    Potatoes are a great staple to a meal and I love jacket baked potatoes as the skins (well scrubbed) as nutritious and also really good when crispy.
    If I don't have time to do them, I like some good chunky mash with butter, mayonnaise and some soy milk. I don't like to too smooth, a few chunks makes it tastier as the seasoning can cling to them especially if I add come chilli flakes.

    I don't always have time, but roast potatoes are a favorite or potato dauphinoise, which I can eat by itself with garlic, cream and herbs.
     
  2. prettycolors

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    I like them fried *drool* I started loving fried potatoes back in my university days when money was little so I had to eat cheaply. Clean them up, add oil & fry then salt and eat - what's not to love? It's also the only food (besides pizza) that makes me hungry based on smell only. Do I smell friend potatoes? Time to eat some! :eek:
     
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    I like potato salad! It is really great with barbecue or fried food. :) I like a lot of onions and bacon on potato salads. :)
     
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    Chipped is my favourite way, although clearly not he way I should be having them all of the time :D Roasted is pretty good too actually. Jacket is probably the only one I don't have. Jacket skins are just horrible, skins are fine on roasted potatoes, juts not jacket potatoes. I love a very buttery mash too though, with a dash of herbs.
     
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    I like mashed potatoes, skins left on for nutrition, with sour cream, garlic and dill. It's pretty easy to make if I have the sour cream on hand. I just add the minced garlic and a few pinches of dill while I am mashing and there they are, delicious. If I don't have sour cream I put a little butter in when I mash them, but it's not quite as tasty to me that way. I also love baked potatoes, but as that requires so much electricity, I have not made them in years.
     
  6. Theo

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    Yes, potato salad is a great way to use up potatoes for a snack with lashings of mayonnaise or salad cream. I like to add some petit pois to them as well and some corn and it can be a meal by itself. Also potato skins are good for barbecues and easy to make.
     
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    I want it soft so mash is a lot better espscially with butter. potatoes can also be great with soup particularly beefstew. My father use to cook beefstew with potatoes and corn kernels. i like how it taste as the corn is very aromatic.
     
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    My favorite way is fried. My father always made them that way and it's been my favorite since then. Thinly sliced with onions and some butter.. absolutely perfectly.
     
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    I like baking them hasselback style. You cut a bunch of slits in it so it looks like a fan. Add some olive oil and garlic, salt, pepper and bake it. All the individual pieces get crispy and the insides are soft. It's so good! I also like mashed potatoes. And sweet potatoes, too.
     
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    Baked potatoes are what I like most from the plant, with melted swiss-cheese and bacon bits, and finished with sour cream on top. My second way I like to eat potatoes is hash browns and Tabasco sauce sprinkled on it - after a night of drinking alcoholic beverages and hanging out with good company - along with a T-bone steak, eggs and sausages. My third way is the infamous mashed potatoes, but I prefer to keep the skin with it to add texture.
     
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    I personally like to use my potatoes when cooking with meats. I will dump them into a skillet and fry them with a little oil until they are nice and crisp on the outside and soft-ish on the inside. I like to pair them with eggs in the morning as well, it is also quite a delicious combo. Potato chips are also on my list. I do not like to eat baked potatoes, it is always difficult for me to swallow and end up drinking a ton of water trying to keep the potato down. I never had a decently prepared baked potato, so that may be the only reason why I dislike it when it is prepared this way.
     
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    I liked potatoes fried [until] crisp. The taste is good and to be honest, I just like crispy food.

    Technically crisps can be classified as junk food, eating too much of them could have negative health effects. Good thing though is that I don't regularly eat crisps so I'm relatively safe.
     
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    We don't have potatoes very often due to my husband's dietary restrictions, but I do enjoy them a lot. I love scalloped potatoes, and warm potato salad :). But there are a ton of good options for baked potatoes, as well.
     
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    I am not a big potato fan, as I live in the tropics and find them too heavy in the hot weather. I mostly eat sweet potatoes, but occasionally, during the cooler months, I like to prepare baked potatoes, which I usually eat with sea salt and organic mustard. Also, I like to make potato puree with herbs and sesame butter, which is always a nice accompaniment for vegetables or a simple salad.
     
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    I absolutely love mashed potatoes. When I am just cooking for myself I will sometimes just make a pot of mashed potatoes for dinner. I like to add some butter milk and sour cream to them along with some garlic, salt and pepper. I make sure they get really creamy! I also really like steak fries, but don't make them as often.
     
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    Having them boiled and soaking them in a mayonnaise or dipping them in a very good cheese dip. Either of the two is very sinful. If I am on a diet, I go eat them naked, or make my own good-tasting low-fat dip using the silken tofu. But if I don't have that plenty of time, I really eat them just they are after boiling them. They really taste good in every way that they are cooked. But I don't eat French fries and rarely snack on potato chips and those that have gone through a rigid process only to end up very oily.