Comments on: Fried Potatoes (How to make them and when to eat them!)

By: East Texas Buckskinner

East Texas Buckskinner — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 06:02:13 +0000

My Mother made smothered taters with everything. the smell of them cooking will get me outta bed. Hers used some chopped onion, garlic powder and just a bit of green peppers. Also, she only every used bacon drippings that we kept in a coffee can in the ice box. My favorite is served with biscuits and gravy. Or serve them under a thick squirrel or rabbit stew. Good stuff

By: thechexican

thechexican — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:15:20 +0000

Nice informative recipe written with a homely charm.

By: Sharon

Sharon — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:46:23 +0000

Up here in North Ontario, Canada for the last few yrs if you ask for home fries in restaraunts you get deep fried potatoe cubes. Those are just french fries with an attitude. Home fries are what you cooked up top.

By: Sharon

Sharon — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:44:47 +0000

I had fried potatoes for supper last night. We mostly use left over boiled potatoes to fry. I added frozen corn, onions, celery then topped it all off with scrambled eggs and put a couple slices of fried ham on the side with a sprinkle of cheese melted on top of it all. I fry mostly with butter in a non stick pan. Sometimes when I really have a craving I will use uncooked to fry but mostly I just cook extra potatoes the night before so I can have leftovers for lunch the next day. They don’t take as long too brown and you don’t need to cover them.

I did last night though to get the egg to cook in the middle of the pan.

By: PATIKAKES

PATIKAKES — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:10:27 +0000

I love fried potatoes. When I made them for my sons and friends that stayed over; I used a big griddle that covers both eyes on the stove. Being somewhat (ha ha) lazy, I put chopped (raw) bacon and potatoes in a single layer on the griddle and sprinkled them with onion and garlic granules. By the time the potatoes were crisp so was the bacon and the bacon flavor was all through the potatoes. They never came out greasy. My sons and their friends always ate every bit. The friends always thanked me and wanted to come back whenever I made them.

By: Heather

Heather — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 04:20:32 +0000

Also, I laughed at your post as I had a very southern lady from Georgia for a professor that once said that if you ever encounter anything that is ugly, unappealing or you just aren’t sure about you can say that they appear neat or interesting and that way you were always polite and don’t risk offending your host. Your aunt said that they looked interesting and were neat so she must be a true southern lady!

By: Heather

Heather — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 04:16:34 +0000

I am so excited about this post! I grew up eating fried potatoes but I know many people that did not and think they are strange- and many of the potatoes offered for breakfast at restaurants are NOT the same thing. I enjoy your recipes, because they are for many things I grew up with, but when I ask for the recipe I usually get the answer to throw in a bit of this or a bit of that- not helping me at all!!! This way I can at least start with your recipes as a base until I learn to cook and can tweak things to match my own tastes like real southern cooks can. Can’t wait to try your recipes!

By: Mary

Mary — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:26:23 +0000

When we fry potatoes in our house we sometimes cook them my Slovenian grandmother’s way — to punch up the flavor a little we cook bacon first (then remove that and crumble it and set aside) and cook the potatoes in the bacon grease, and then right before the the dish is completely cooked, we mix in a capful or two of vinegar and the crumbled cooked bacon. It’s good!

By: JoAnnW

JoAnnW — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:14:24 +0000

I love how one recipe will elicit a ton of variations….It’s like playing a game, Christy shoots the ball in the air and it gets carried around touching so many different people and their traditions.

Well, here’s one more…in NY we call them home fries…I add onions and butter instead of oil and mostly serve them with eggs. Otherwise it’s the same thing.

as always, thank you for sharing.

By: Susan

Susan — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 04:05:08 +0000

I grew up with these too – they’re SO good with so many different meals. Mom always sliced the potatoes and added onion though, so of course I do too! I can see Dad dishing them up onto his plate, adding pepper to them (from the can ’cause a shaker was never fast enough for him!) and adding a healthy dollop of catchup. Thanks for the memory!