What is your favorite potato dish.? Mine is potato salad.

[debm55]

[Climate Crusader]

1. German

potato salad.

[debm55]

15. Ty CLimate Crusader. I like the tangy taste too.

[unblock]

2. Clam chowdah

[debm55]

16. Ty you unblock.

[Botany]

38. Union Oyster House's Clam Chowder is the bomb

https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/clam-chowder-recipe2-1951258

[debm55]

64. TY Botany

[brewens]

89. The recipe on the Sea Watch (I think is the brand) clams I get at Costco make great chowder. They sell it

in a twin pack of two big cans. It makes a big batch, and you can easily go about 150% on all ingredients and it's still loaded with clams.

[bullimiami]

3. Sweet potato kuchen.

[debm55]

18. Ty bullimiami. That sounds very good.

[bullimiami]

44. It's heaven in a pan.

[AllaN01Bear]

4. that was one of my late moms fave . grated carrots and rasin salad were another

mine is smashed and scalloped. along w baked . am i going half baked here ?

[debm55]

19. Ty Allan01Bear. My husband loves carrot salad.

[TexasBushwhacker]

52. I like my carrot salad with chopped peanuts

I like the sweet and salty combo

[debm55]

57. Sounds good. Ty TexasBushwhacker.

[AllaN01Bear]

59. interisting variation and you get protien to boot.

[MOMFUDSKI]

5. Fried in butter baked potatoes.

I mic them and slice thin and cook until very brown and crispy on both sides

[debm55]

20. TY MOMFUDSKI. That sounds wonderful.

[C_U_L8R]

6. Latkes with apple sauce

Or their cousin... the tater tot.

As well as good old French fries.

[debm55]

21. Thank you, I love latkes with apple sauce and/or sour cream. French fries, homemade not frozen rank up there too.

[Redleg]

56. My mom loved these too

And so do I

[nocoincidences]

7. Hashed browns!!

Second fave is twice-baked with cheese and bacon and stuff.

[debm55]

23. TY. I love hashed browns with a sunny side egg.

[OldBaldy1701E]

106. Yep, I have to agree. Hash browns for sure. (n/t)

[mwf]

8. Mashed potatoes

Also twice-baked potatoes with melted cheddar cheese.

[debm55]

24. Ty mwf. Both sound wonderful.

[sinkingfeeling]

9. Fried with layers of sliced onion.

[debm55]

25. Ty sinkingfeeling. That sounds great.

[hlthe2b]

10. Nothing beats a good baked potato for me---while I love butter, chives and sour cream, a healthier version

topped with plain yogurt and chives is not bad--and I scrub the potatoes well so that I can eat the lightly olive-oiled skin (prior to baking)for the fiber. I am sensitive to carbs so I don't eat them often, but...

[debm55]

26. Thank you hlthe2b. Baked potato with the fixings are the best.

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[brewens]

11. Real mashed potatoes. I do up a whole five-pound bag, portion it out and freeze. Loaded baked potato soup

is another favorite. A good baked potato served numerous ways. It's all good.

[debm55]

43. TY brewens. Yes the potato has some wonderful ways to be prepared. Thanks you for your choices.

[Jrose]

12. Very crispy 'steak' size french fries... with melted cheese...

...or 'English' style, with vinegar...
...or just plain, with salt. pepper...
...or dipped in hot sauce...

[debm55]

28. Thank you Jrose. You sure do like your potatoes.

[no_hypocrisy]

13. Romanoff

[underpants]

27. 🍸

[debm55]

77. Underpants, is that a clam?? . No, it's a scallop. as in scalloped pototoes.

[debm55]

29. Thank you, no_hyprocrisy. Potato Romanoff are great.

[Ocelot II]

14. Potatoes.

[debm55]

31. TY Ocelot II do you like them fried, backed or in something?????

[Ocelot II]

41. I like them in all of their forms. I don't distinguish.

[debm55]

58. TY Ocelot II

[surrealAmerican]

17. knishes, or maybe samosas ...

... or chowder, or kugel, or gnocchi ...


There's a lot of possibilities.

[debm55]

32. TY I love them all with potatoes.

[LeonidPlanck]

22. Oh, man.

My dad - when he’s lucid (Alzheimer’s) - will weekly make his mother’s potato salad. It - along with her spaghetti - is a family fave. Mostly his time in the kitchen keeps him grounded and present. As his 24/7 caregiver it’s nice to see life in his eyes by virtue of family, food and history.

BUT! I hate to conclude that my favorite potato dish is my leek potato soup. Packed with spicy pork sausage, mushrooms, heavy cream and vegetables, a fork should reliably stand vertically within it even while it’s hot. Best made with a combo of potatoes to utilize the benefits of different starch molecular weights.

It’s a winter food, though.

- Leo

Sorry, dad.

[debm55]

33. TY LeonidPlanck for your post. You are so kind to be your dad's caregiver. Your leek potato soup sounds wounderful.

[LeonidPlanck]

48. It's earned me a few dates with the gals over the years.

[LeonidPlanck]

49. It's earned me a few second dates over the years.

[Arne]

30. Shepards Pie,

It may be an English thing.
Like Guinness at the pub.

[debm55]

34. Ty Arne. I make Shepherds pie. Wonderful dish.

[bottomofthehill]

35. mashed the way my grammie made them

potato, salt and pepper, butter, light cream, and a big dolop of bacon fat she kept in a can in the fridge,,

[debm55]

99. Ty bottomofthe hill , great tribute to your grammie

[PJMcK]

36. Too many to choose a single favorite!

Potato salad, both German and otherwise, is great but so are French fries. I love Hasselback potatoes but scalloped au gratin knocks me out. Mashed and baked are great, too. So many more!

Sorry, Deb, that’s the best I can do!

[debm55]

78. TY, PJMcK That is more then enough. You like your potatoes.

[Botany]

37. Real home made mashed potatoes.... Potatoes, butter, milk or 1/2 & 1/2, salt, and pepper.

But the best potatoes I have ever had was scalloped potatoes in Zermatt, Switzerland.
They were wonderful and they were served in a cast iron skillet that after I dished out some
they would put the cast iron dish into a slot in the chimney of the wood stove to keep them
warm.

[debm55]

79. Ty Botany, that sounds terrific.

[justaprogressive]

120. Ah Zermatt!

Pony-drawn sleighs, skiing back to your hotel and the Matterhorn and its glacier...a wonderful place!

I'm a decent cook but I have not been able to duplicate their scalloped potatoes and onions

recipe( (In my case it was Zurs Austria) where I was served the very best

Fried Scalloped potatoes and Bratwurst I've ever tasted...on top of a mountain.

Thank you for bringing back the memories!

[Botany]

121. I can say I have skied on the Matterhorn. The bottom section and it was steep with wind driven....

…. little ridges of snow of about 2 to 4’ in height. I got to the bottom and I didn’t fall but it wasn’t
pretty. Once was enough it was a tough ski.

The restaurant where I got the scalloped potatoes had a lazy Susan with 4 different types of
sauces for the beef. Chives and cream cheese along with other awesome stuff. 🎿

[justaprogressive]

122. see I saved the

Matterhorn for you to post!

[jpak]

39. Quebec style french fries and gravy

Yum

[debm55]

80. Ty, jpak, I like them here too

[Hotler]

40. Greek style roasted potatoes. Olive oil, lemon juice, garlic and oregano. nt

[debm55]

84. TY, Hotler. It sounds wonderful

[KarenS]

42. Potato Skins!!! use those insides for other stuff! :) n/t

[debm55]

81. Thank you, KarenS.

[Golden Raisin]

45. Plain baked potato (with crispy skin) plus a little sour cream and chives.

Runners-up: French Fries; Hash browns.

[debm55]

85. TY, Golden Raisin. I would add potato pancakes to your list and it would match.

[wendyb-NC]

46. They are all my favorite

Potato Salad if it has the right ingredients and taste.

[debm55]

86. TY wendyb-NC

[rsdsharp]

47. Potatoes Anna.

[debm55]

74. Thank you rsdsharp.

[Not Heidi]

50. Smash & really good gravy

Not Colonel gravy - it's made from powder. 🤢

My grandmother made the. best. damned. gravy. I'll never forget it. She only made it when she fried chicken, so it had a lot of fat in it - but I was too young to care. Best part was that she put in the "cracklins" from the bottom of the skillet. OMG, that was the best smash & gravy.

(The other part of the tale is that when she fried chicken, every doorknob in the house was greasy. We lived with it - it was worth it.)

[debm55]

73. Thank you, Not Heidi. What a tribute to your grandmother. Smash and gravy sound wonderful.

[QED]

51. Anything!

I love all potato dishes. My aunt called me "Spud."

[debm55]

72. Ty, QED , aka, Spud.

[DFW]

53. Here is my favorite:

My wife makes sautéed potato slices, lightly done in olive oil with a few onions, and then tossed briefly in cajun spice, then finished over low heat (so as not to be at all greasy).

If I had nothing else to eat for the rest of my life, I could survive on that.

[debm55]

71. TY, DFW. those sound so good.

[DFW]

91. The joy and the curse of being married to a master chef

I’ll never lose as much weight as I should, but, on the other hand, what a way to go!!

[debm55]

93. You are so lucky

[DFW]

96. Not a day goes by that I don't know that

Married 42 years today (it’s April 10 here, already), and we were already together almost 8 years befoe that.

[Elessar Zappa]

54. NM-style chile chee

And yes, it’s chile, not chili. It’s French fries covered in green chile sauce and sharp grated cheddar cheese with optional diced onions on top.

[debm55]

70. Thank you Elessar Zappa, It made my mouth water.

[Redleg]

55. Good question...

The best potatoes I have had from a restaurant were from a French bistro in Salt Lake City in the mid 1990s. They were mashed potatoes that had been seasoned just right and then fried so that they were somewhat crisp on the outside and moist on the inside and not overly oily. My wife and I were celebrating one of our early anniversaries and it was meant to be a special night at a nice restaurant and it was- perhaps that is why I enjoyed the potatoes so much, along with the beef tournedos and the rest of the meal.

The favorite potatoes outside of a restaurant were my mom's German potato salad, which she learned from her mom in Germany. They were wonderful. My sister used my mom's recipe to make some for us when I visited her last summer. Nice!

The favorite potatoes that I make are fairly simple yet delicious. I take some small Yukon gold or the small red potatoes and cut them in half. I add a bit of good olive oil, some kosher salt, pepper, and Italian herbs and mix together to coat them. Then I roast them in the oven until done, turning once. The outside will be slightly crispy with a nice interior and relatively few calories compared to some other potato options.

I also fondly remember some pomme frits with gravy that were served in a little German restaurant in St. Ilgen near Heidelberg. The fries were perfect and the gravy a thin gravy, possibly made with paprika, that I would die for.

[debm55]

69. Thank you Redleg. They all sound different and delicious.

[3catwoman3]

60. Mashed potatoes, baked potatoes, scalloped potatoes...

...French fries, tater tots, hash browns - what's not to like?

And let's not forget POTATO CHIPS - Lay's Sea Salt and Cracked Pepper flavor rocks! Most bags have several chips that are curly and twisted, and they get stuck to other chips so they are extra think and crunchy.

[debm55]

68. Ty 3catwomen3 ALL potatoes!!!!!

[Inkey]

61. Camp fire baked potatoes

As kids, our Saturday mornings were
spent in the woods. We would pack
some food for lunch, sandwiches, Slim
Jim's or jerky a couple of canteens of
water. We also would bring several
foil wrapped potatoes, salt and pepper
shakers and butter. We built a small
camp fire, using dried leaves and twigs
and matches we snuck out the house,
then started laying on larger branches
until we could see the red embers.
We would put the potatoes into the
base of the fire then would goof around for
a while swinging on vines or sending
someone on a snipe hunt. After about
twenty or so minutes we would retrieve
our freshly roasted potatoes and play
hot potato until we could unwrap the charred foil from the spuds. The smell of the potatoes and the fire really added to our enjoyment of the meal we created by
ourselves. Magical days and memories!

[debm55]

67. Ty Inkey., It sounds great.

[GoneOffShore]

62. Aligot - Basically mashed potatoes with cheese

Here's a video -

?si=VP2Qv8Ax98fAQwLR

[debm55]

66. ty GoneOffShore, It looks and sounds delicious

[doc03]

63. Loaded baked potato with chilli, cheese, jalapeos and sour cream. nt

[debm55]

65. TY doc03, That sounds delicious

[arkielib]

75. Potatoes au gratin

I use the same recipe my mother used when I was a child. Takes some time to slice the potatoes, but so worth it!

[debm55]

76. Thank you arkielib.What a wounderful tribute to your Mom.

[FalloutShelter]

82. Roasted red new potatoes

With fresh green beans and pesto.
Delish.

[debm55]

95. Thank you FalloutShelter. Those sound great

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[SarahD]

83. I'm with you. Potato salad.

I .make it three different ways, so it doesn't get boring.

[debm55]

98. TY SarahD, I am going to try. elleng's recipes.

[elleng]

87. THANKS for the reminder! Italian Peppers and Potatoes: Pipi e Patate

from grandma of friend of my former (now deceased) husband; he/we called them Smitty's Potatoes, and we made them often!

https://www.shelovesbiscotti.com/peppers-and-potatoes/

((P.S. don't take it all literally, I'd NEVER remove the potato skins!))

Here's an alternative, similar recipe:

Calabrian Style Potatoes and Peppers

https://www.sipandfeast.com/potatoes-and-peppers/

[debm55]

97. Ty, elleng, And thank you for the links to the recipes. They will be on my summer potato salad recipes.

[greatauntoftriplets]

88. Hash browns cooked in olive oiil.

[debm55]

94. Thank you, greatauntoftriplets. Yum

[Mr.Bill]

90. Tater Tots.

Deep fried like they were meant to be.

[debm55]

92. TY, Mr. Bill

[mysteryowl]

100. Baked Scallop Potatoes

The richer the better... (can be done with low fat options)

Cream & Butter & Cheese

Sliced onions & sliced potatoes into a baking dish with the sauce.

Bake until tender.

Yum...

[debm55]

110. Thank you, mysteryowl. and thanks for the recipe.

[Turbineguy]

101. Twice Baked

The way my daughter makes them.

[debm55]

111. /thank you, Turbineguy.

[chillfactor]

102. Cheesy potato slow cooker soup!

YUM!!!!

[debm55]

112. Thank you, that sounds so good.

[LoisB]

103. That's a hard one for me. I love potatoes almost any way except au gratin and scalloped - same to me.

Sauteed mushrooms over mashed potatoes is a real treat for me but fried potatoes w/onions is my go-to.

[debm55]

113. Thank you LoisB, that sounds good.

[ailsagirl]

104. I love potatoes-- my all-time favorite? Duchess Potatoes!!

It's a good thing I'm not much of a cook, because otherwise I'd have them for dinner every night!



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchess_potatoes

[debm55]

114. Thank you allsagirl

[kozar]

105. Burnt taters, is what i called it, to LilBit

Just, fry a couple diced taters,until crispy. ( hence burnt) , add some leftover chicken, and, creamed corn.

KFC calls this, a bowl, Ive been cooking it for, 10 years, screw their mashed taters, make it, the right way..

Koz

[debm55]

109. Thank you, kozar, It sounds great.

[Emile]

107. Hobo Skillet

[debm55]

108. Thanks, Emile. I think we had that in the scouts.

[justaprogressive]

115. Nightshades (potatoes, eggplant, tomatoes) are the curse of Arthritis sufferers...that said

My two favorites:

Baby Red Potato Salad

2 bags baby reds boiled, halve them (cut) and halve the largest ones again...
2 hard-boiled eggs diced
5 cloves garlic minced
1 med red onion diced
The juice of 1 lime
2 Tbsp Dijon Mustard
2tsp Dill weed
mayo to coat...

Put in freezer for 45 minutes, then move to fridge...

and Vichyssoise

LEEK AND POTATO SOUP (Serves 6) (From The James Beard Cookbook )

5 or 6 leeks
5 tablespoons butter
3 cups diced potatoes
1 quart chicken broth
Salt to taste
Cayenne
Nutmeg
2 tablespoons flour

Trim and wash the leeks thoroughly to remove all sand. Split lengthwise,
then cut in thin slices. Sauté in a large saucepan over moderate heat in 3
tablespoons of butter for 4 minutes. Add the potatoes and broth, bring to a
boil, and reduce to heat. Cover and simmer till the potatoes are soft. Season
to taste with salt (the broth may provide enough), cayenne and nutmeg.
Drain off the broth and reserve. Purée the vegetables in a food mill, ricer or
food processor. Combine again with the broth. Melt the remaining 2
tablespoons of butter in a saucepan over low heat, stir in the flour, and cook
for a few seconds. Add 1½ cups of the soup and stir until the mixture is
thickened. Stir back into the rest of the soup, and bring to a boil. Serve with
a dash of cayenne or nutmeg.

VARIATIONS
Do not purée the vegetables, but leave them in coarse pieces in the
thickened soup.

*Vichyssoise: Prepare the soup in the main recipe and allow it to cool. Blend
in 1½ cups heavy cream. Chill thoroughly. Serve with a sprinkling of
chopped chives


enjoy!

[debm55]

116. Ty justaprogressive. They sound wounderful. Thank you very much for the recipes.

[justaprogressive]

119. I think sharing should be part of this

we should all take the time to eat better..

[Laffy Kat]

117. Your potato salad would be safe around me.

The ONLY potato dish I do not care for is potato salad. Mustard and potatoes, um, no.

[debm55]

118. Oh I make different kinds.Not to worry, Laffy Kat. However, none with yellow mustard, Some folks do like it that way

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[malthaussen]

123. Fries. n/t

[debm55]

124. TY. Mal Love fries.