The classic Irish man's dilemma: do I eat the potato today or ferment it and drink it tomorrow?
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Boil 'em, mash' em, and stick 'em in a stew. Lovely golden crisp with a nice piece of fried fish.
Small gold potatoes, quartered. Brown in cast iron skillet with grape seed oil. Once potatoes are browned, add about 1/2 of a red onion, cut kinda small and sauteed until slightly transparent. Bake in oven at 350 until potatoes are cooked.
Salt/season to taste and eat with ketchup and hot sauce.
I have everything in my kitchen?
First, I get a big block of cheese. Then I take a generous bite off the the block of cheese, chew and swallow. Next, I place the potato in the garbage and carefully close the lid. Finally, I continue consuming the cheese until the cheese is no more.
I just realized this is c/cooking and not lemmy shitpost. Err... Sorry. Your recipe sounds really good, by the way.
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Wash it, poke some holes in it, a little oil on the skin, salt, bake
Once cooked, cut it down the middle part way, smash together the ends a bit
bacon, cheddar, sour cream
Am I limited to the kitchen, or the rest of my house and garden too? If I have access to everything and I feel fancy:
Dice the potato, get some oil and a cast iron pan. Go outside and light a fire at the end of the garden meadow. Oil in the pan over the fire, take a few cuttings from some rosemary growing in the garden and let that sit in the oil as the pan heats up. Once hot add the diced potato. Turn occasionally and keep cooking until suitably browned. Serve with some sour cream mixed with chives from the garden. Some garlic salt might also be nice to sprinkle over the top of the cooked potato.
I'm in the mood for this one. Peel it, cut into larger bite-sized cuts. Par-boil them to just before tender. Take them out, cool them down, then toss with olive or vegtable oil, salt, and pepper. Then bake at a high temp until brown and crispy flipping occasionally.
They turn out incredibly crispy on the outside and tender on he inside. A little bit time consuming though so I do it rarely.
Just discovered this method and now I try to make them once or twice a month. They taste amazing. They turn out like crispy pockets of mashed potato.
Boil it. If I just got paid, maybe even peel it before boiling.
t. eastern european nonna.
Cover in spices. Eat raw. Spiced potato.
Honestly with just one potato, this is a case where I'd probably have a classic baked potato with it. Sometimes simplest is best, and it takes you back to positive memories from when you were young.
Your choice absolutely nails all of that though! Like you've basically described what I'd do, too as a possible second choice. In your case I'd think of them as home fries
Agreed. There's a gradient of what I do with potatoes based off how many there are. Just one or two? Baked. Three or four? Hasselback. More than that? Mashed.
I have tried and made other variants (chantilley, duchess, twice baked, etc) and they were fun and tasty (and generally more work than they're worth unless you are impressing guests), but those three are my go tos.
Bite, salt, repeat.
Peel it, slice it into thin medallions, then pan fry them with butter until they’re crispy golden brown on both sides but still creamy soft in the middle. Seasoned with just a sprinkle of garlic salt and a dash of Korean chili powder.
Pommes fondant is the absolute best.
Get a few pounds of russet potatoes.
Peel them so they are cylindrical. Flat faces are a must. Size and shape of a scallop.
Get a heavy bottomed pan (I use a glazed dutch oven).
Heat it to medium high.
Add a high-heat oil and fry the flat sides of the potatoes until they have a deep golden color.
Flip each of them and fry some more.
Pour in a flavorful stock to cover the bottom of the pan with at least 1/4".
Place pan in oven at 375 and bake for 30 minutes or until they are very tender.
Serve with reduced stock as a sauce.
Cut it into thin layers sloppy style, then dunk it in boiling oil. Then salt it up and snack on it. gg ez
freeze dried, reconstituted in vodka, coated in potted meat then deep fried, blended then drank through a straw mixed with clamato.
[https://youtu.be/Bs1UudPHGAI](How To Make Slow-Cooked Russet Potatoes That Fall Right Off The Bone)
I can't stand cooking. I'd clean it, jab it with a knife deeply a handful of times, then throw it in the microwave for 6-7 minutes. Then I'd forget that I put it in the microwave. Sometime later I'd suddenly get real hungry, go into the kitchen, notice the microwave says "DONE" and then remember the potato. It would still be hot. I'd take it out, cut it in half, maybe throw some butter on it, then eat it.
If it's just the one potato then I'd oven bake it until the skin was crisp; half it and scoop out the flesh; mix the flesh with butter, grated cheese, crumbled bacon or pancetta, chives or spring onions, salt, pepper, maybe some chilli flakes; spoon the mixture back into the skins; and give it another 10-15 minutes in the oven.
Twice baked! A classic.
Hasselback potatoes. Accept no substitute. It's absolutely worth the effort. I hate potatoes, but I'll always say yes to Hasselback and gladly eat it all. I also love to make these for friends because they also look great. Link: https://youtu.be/cUriMeCAsxo
Cubed skin-on, boiled til just done, tossed in a sauce of bacon grease, crumbled bacon, white vinegar, tiny bit of sugar, and salt and pepper.
Hasselback Grilled and brushed with garlic and butter at the end to caramelize.
Came to post almost exactly this
There are about as many ways to cook a potato as preparing an egg. With both, I have no real preferences.
Only one? Because I loves me some mashed potatoes with too much butter and sour cream.
Stab it a few times with a fork and toss it in the microwave
The truly cultured answer. Just toss that mf in the microwave, flip it halfway through. Then add some salt, pepper, grated cheese, and butter. Aside from realizing your cheese is moldy when you go to grab it because it sat in the back of the fridge for like a month, there’s not much room for error.
TIL some people don't eat the entire block of cheddar within a week.
Wash, sprinkle with sea salt, wrap in foil, bake until done, cut open, add butter (and more salt if needed), and enjoy.
More potatoes might change things, but with 1 that seems like the best bet.
I'd dice into large chunks and roast it, maybe as part of a sheet pan meal. I bought chicken shawarma spices and garlic sauce recently, so maybe I'd roast with red bell peppers and chunks of chicken, tossed in olive oil, and seasoned with salt, shawarma spice, and lemon pepper.
That said, can I come to your house for breakfast please?
Grate it, soak the starch out, rinse, dry, mix in pakora batter powder, deep fry it.
Peel it and eat it raw. I love the crunchy starchy earthy taste of a raw potato
nukes a big ol Russet in the microwave, covers it in butter and cheese with some salt and pepper
Thin slices, make a soy sauce, mustard, olive oil sauce, mix, in a pan and into the oven.
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Cut into wedges, leave skin on, sprinkle with salt, pepper, and spicy paprika. Then toss in an air fryer.
I’d take a large russet and turn it into a fully loaded twice baked potato
Stick it in the oven for an hour, right on the rack, as-is.
Take it out, cut in half, butter/salt/pepper.
throw it in the boiling water for 10-30 minutes depending on the size of the potato.
Then let it cool and eat it like an apple
I'd boil and mash then mix with flour and butter. Then I'd fry them and enjoy my potato scones.
Chop it up and boil it in salty water. reserve some water
Drain mash add butter milk and some of that starchy water.
As a mash. Dutch cream variety. Served with a side of a juicy steak, and red onion gravy.
Slice it thin, shallow fry in a wok with vegetable oil, turmeric, green chillies, asafoetida, dry masala. Add salt to taste.
Eat as it is or with flat bread.
Maybe add some crushed cottage cheese while frying.
A caterer at a wedding showed me this. If gold, red, or purple potatoes, wash, dab dry, then cut into 3/4" cubes with skin. If russet, peel then cut into 1/2" cubes.
Pre-heat oven to 350F.
Toss potatoes in a bowl with a LOT of olive oil, then add salt, pepper, and dried mint. Stir till coated. Pour into a shallow metal baking pan. Make sure it's only a single cube deep.
Bake for 15m, then flip all the cubes with a spatula. Another 15m. After that, raise the heat a little, then flip every 5m until outside is to your level of crispiness. The larger the cube, the longer it takes. Too small and it ends up dried inside and out.
You want to end up with crispy outside and fluffy inside. So good.