BAKED POTATOES ARE THE BEST POTATOES.

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strawman

strawman

I actually think it's a toss-up between baked and mashed, but at the moment baked wins.

My wife has no love for potatoes. She'll eat them with sufficient amounts of dairy products and seasoning, and she makes great potato dishes that she just doesn't enjoy much.

But once in awhile when we happen to have russet potatoes in the house, I'm seized upon to make baked potatoes. Smother the outside with olive oil, prick them, salt and pepper them, and pop them in the oven for awhile, and they come out crispy skinned with perfect innards, to which a variety of items may be added - but just a little butter and seasoning is more than sufficient...

DELICIOUS.
 
Frank

Frank

My grandpa used to grow this breed of potato that when baked created a super thick, crispy shell. Those....were the best potatoes ever grown by man.

You'd scoop out the innards and butter the skin shell and eat the most delicious thing on Earth.

Baked potatoes rule.
 
Chad Sexington

Chad Sexington

stienman said:
My wife has no love for potatoes.
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You know that part where they're like "If anyone knows any reason why these two should not be wed..." This is one of those things. I'm pretty sure you've got a legal case for divorce here.

Anyway, next time you make mashed potatoes, obtain or make some creme fraiche and stir in a tablespoon or two. Thank me later.
 
checkeredhat

checkeredhat

I submit for the forum's consideration, scalloped potatoes.
Cream and onion and bacon and cheese, all layered over top thinly sliced oven roasted potatoes. Heart attack in a casserole dish, yes. But a delicious one.
 
Frank

Frank

checkeredhat said:
I submit for the forum's consideration, scalloped potatoes.
Cream and onion and bacon and cheese, all layered over top thinly sliced oven roasted potatoes. Heart attack in a casserole dish, yes. But a delicious one.
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Get the fuck out of here with that scalloped nonsense.

About the only way to ruin potatoes, in my opinion.
 
strawman

strawman

MindDetective said:
Sounds to me like what you guys really like are condiments.
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I have to admit enjoying a little potatoes with my dairy, but I still hold that any potato dish that requires more than a little butter and seasoning to taste good is inherently no longer a potato dish.

You can add all the stuff you want after that and it still counts, but it the dish doesn't taste good without a pound of butter, sour cream, cheese, etc, then there's little point to having potato in it at all. Might as well just use corn starch or flour.

Baked potatoes are a pretty pure form of potato as dishes go.
 
checkeredhat

checkeredhat

stienman said:
I have to admit enjoying a little potatoes with my dairy, but I still hold that any potato dish that requires more than a little butter and seasoning to taste good is inherently no longer a potato dish.

You can add all the stuff you want after that and it still counts, but it the dish doesn't taste good without a pound of butter, sour cream, cheese, etc, then there's little point to having potato in it at all. Might as well just use corn starch or flour.

Baked potatoes are a pretty pure form of potato as dishes go.
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Fair enough. Doesn't mean scalloped potatoes aren't still delicious, but I'll concede to it not being a "true" potato dish under these restrictions.
 
grub

grub

Roasted is the best, potatoes cut into cubes, mixed in olive oil with garlic and onion, salt and oregano. Yum.
 
HCGLNS

HCGLNS

Hey don't you go knockin our boiled potatoes. Some times I put salt in that water.

Now here is something super secretly awesome for you all, don't read it if you are not ready for awesomeness or charlie, or Nick or Dave, they probably couldn't handle this level of awesome

When making mashed potatoes for a turkey dinner, do not through out the water. Use it to start your gravy. You will taste super awesome gravy.
 
checkeredhat

checkeredhat

HCGLNS said:
Hey don't you go knockin our boiled potatoes. Some times I put salt in that water.
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My mom's favourite dish is ham boiled with potato, cabbage and carrots and absolutely no spices. Its not terrible, but it's unbelievably bland. Which is why she loves it.
 
checkeredhat

checkeredhat

HCGLNS said:
That was actually a Russel Peters quote mocking the blandness of Canadian food.
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I know. And its true. My mom loves that dish because she's from England and therefore hates spice, but she didn't even know how to make it until my dad's mom (Irish from Cape Breton) taught her.
 
North_Ranger

North_Ranger

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I've always been partial to good mashed potatoes. The lumpy kind, however... that kind of mash and anybody who serves it can go **** themselves.

That being said, I also enjoy the first crop of new potatoes that hit the markets in early summer. No need to peel them; just wash them, boil them and serve them with butter. Delicious.
 
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