How I make fries:
Cut using a commercial cutter.
Soak in cold water for an hour.
Boil for about 10 minutes.
In the freezer for an hour.
Deep fry at 325 until there’s just a skin starting to form.
Back in the freezer.
Deep fry at 375.
It’s almost an afternoon affair, but worth it.
Got family coming over for perch and chips this weekend!
Thank you for the invite, but I’m heading to Mammoth for Brews and Blues. (Slopes are still open, crazily enough, but recently threw away my 30-year-old skis.)
Also, that seems like a lot of time for potatoes. Baked, smashed, mashed.
I’m not one to talk, since my baby-back ribs (in a dry rub) and rib-eye’s (salt) are an overnight affair.
Yeah, it’s definitely the potato version of smoking meat.
Correct. And for a musical guide:
IFYP
Or just put olive oil on fingerling potatoes, sprinkle rosemary or some other spice of your choice, and enjoy something that is better and healthier than fries. The fries that you usually find in sandwiches are McD’s quality.
Company cafeteria had Pho (well what they claimed was Pho); when I ordered it as Fuh, the guy hesitated a second and said I was the first person to say it correctly. I was expecting him to not know what I meant.
jeye-roh
Or you could be weird like Ohio and its town pronunciations. Maybe something like guh-RAO.
Yeah. I’ll go have a guh-RAO made with mutton in Gnadenhutten (which is somehow jin-AID-in-hutton).
I had read chicken was the original meat, but after trying to do some internet research, there doesn’t seem to be much consensus. I’ll have to ask a Greek coworker next time I see her what she thinks.
My favorite way is to use fingerlings or other small potatoes, boil them for about 15 minutes, toss them with a little bit of olive oil, rosemary, garlic, salt, and pepper, stick them on a cookie sheet and smash them with another cookie sheet (or the bottom of a pan), then roast them in the oven @425 for about 25 minutes.
Kind-of like this
Interesting, I guess next time I order Pho I’ll remember to pronounce it “Fuh,” or if I’m in New Jersey, “Fuh Q”
My wife makes something similar.
I make something like this often. They are delicious.
Some other styles of roasted potato that I enjoy: hasselback potatoes or brabant potatoes.
Some people do brabant potatoes in the deep fryer, but there are roasted or pan fried versions available.
that is the joke i avoid when going over 4Q results
No lettuce in gyros but I do like having lamb over rice with a side of lettuce (basically the burrito bowl version of a gyro)
i could see doing Gyro ingredients and Rice in a lettuce wrap. But not a Gyro
We have a local Greek place that does bowls. Lettuce, rice, and hummus are offered as kind of the base, pick your protein, and then they will add olives, onions, cucumbers, etc. Pick from like ten sauces. It’s $10 and it’s really tasty.
People told me that there are restaurants that use the Pho pun in a similar way, including Pho King, What the Pho, Pho King Fabulous, and in southern NH, Pho Keene Great (which got some people in the public riled up but their attempt to change the name was futile). There are very strict health standards with these restaurants, since they don’t want customers to get a pho cough and die.
