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What is your favourite potato dish? (Original Post) applegrove 11 hrs ago OP
Does vodka count? Jerry2144 11 hrs ago #1
LOL! applegrove 11 hrs ago #2
pancakes The Wizard 10 hrs ago #12
Any & all!!! SheltieLover 11 hrs ago #3
Baked, with butter, sour cream, bacon, and shredded cheese. 11 Bravo 10 hrs ago #4
Now this sounds absolutely delicious...... a kennedy 10 hrs ago #6
I love them any way... QED 10 hrs ago #5
Cheesy potatoes. Emile 10 hrs ago #7
My mom's hot german potato salad JustAnotherGen 10 hrs ago #8
I just posted about my grandma's Bettie 10 hrs ago #18
It depends entirely on what is accompanying the potato dish. Nt Fiendish Thingy 10 hrs ago #9
Dish full of tater tots. flvegan 10 hrs ago #10
All of them lol but if I had to choose Luciferous 10 hrs ago #11
C-c-c-c-cream cheese, you say? Iggo 5 hrs ago #31
🤣 Luciferous 5 hrs ago #33
mashed. surrealAmerican 10 hrs ago #13
Mashed Botany 10 hrs ago #14
Cold mustard potato salad served with BBQ, a spicy sauce. harumph 10 hrs ago #15
Potatoes Augratin MustLoveBeagles 10 hrs ago #16
Warm German Potato salad Bettie 10 hrs ago #17
Shepherds Pie. chowder66 10 hrs ago #19
So true! bcbink 8 hrs ago #20
Reuben waffle fries. Igel 8 hrs ago #21
It's not the potatoes. Disaffected 8 hrs ago #22
Papas la huancaina róisín_dubh 5 hrs ago #23
Hash Browns from scratch in a cast iron pan, over a fire. Maru Kitteh 5 hrs ago #24
My Budapest-born grandmother called it shishkelach MurrayDelph 5 hrs ago #25
Greek u4ic 5 hrs ago #26
Potato chips - LOL! 3catwoman3 5 hrs ago #27
Au Gratin with extra cheese woodsprite 5 hrs ago #28
A boiled potato sliced then fried to golden brown Submariner 5 hrs ago #29
Now there's a trip down memory lane.. Permanut 4 hrs ago #40
Mashed, obviously. Iggo 5 hrs ago #30
All of them. Ocelot II 5 hrs ago #32
Mashed, home fries, roasted, baked, air-fried, La Coliniere 5 hrs ago #34
I like cold Vichyssoise. applegrove 4 hrs ago #35
A baked potato with the works. Sneederbunk 4 hrs ago #36
potato salad Eugene 4 hrs ago #37
Roasted buzzycrumbhunger 4 hrs ago #38
Nobody has said boiled new potatoes with butter and chives. Yum. applegrove 4 hrs ago #39
My mom's fried potatoes. She called them buckaroo potatoes. Unpeeled potatoes sliced really thin, fried in cast iron KitFox 3 hrs ago #41
My wife's "Bratkartoffeln" DFW 3 hrs ago #42
Pastel de Papa JoseBalow 3 hrs ago #43
And corned beef hash. applegrove 3 hrs ago #44
I'm just gonna leave this here. Arthur_Frain 3 hrs ago #45
Janssons frestelse Celerity 1 hr ago #46

QED

(3,384 posts)
5. I love them any way...
Thu Jul 2, 2026, 05:43 PM
10 hrs ago

my aunt used to call me Spud because I'd always volunteer to finish off the mashed potatoes at Thanksgiving dinner.

on edit: grammar!

JustAnotherGen

(38,224 posts)
8. My mom's hot german potato salad
Thu Jul 2, 2026, 05:48 PM
10 hrs ago

Never will have hers again. No matter how many times I've tried, hers was the best.

In the winter she would finish it with sour cream.

Bettie

(20,046 posts)
18. I just posted about my grandma's
Thu Jul 2, 2026, 06:19 PM
10 hrs ago

warm german potato salad. OMG. It was so good.

I can make it, but it isn't quite the same, maybe that's memory or it isn't as good when she's not the one who made it.

flvegan

(66,692 posts)
10. Dish full of tater tots.
Thu Jul 2, 2026, 05:49 PM
10 hrs ago

Or steak fries. Depends on my mood and tots/fries availability.

I make a mean potato salad too, but it takes a back seat to the aforementioned totness.

Luciferous

(6,643 posts)
11. All of them lol but if I had to choose
Thu Jul 2, 2026, 06:00 PM
10 hrs ago

I would have to say mashed potatoes made with butter and cream cheese 🤤

surrealAmerican

(11,954 posts)
13. mashed.
Thu Jul 2, 2026, 06:08 PM
10 hrs ago

A lot of good alternatives, though - wouldn't say no to some hashed browns, for example.

Botany

(78,330 posts)
14. Mashed
Thu Jul 2, 2026, 06:12 PM
10 hrs ago

Boil potatoes
Put into mixing bowl of the kitchen aid
Add Milk or 1/2 & 1/2 not too much.
Add 1/2 a stick of butter
a little salt and pepper
Use the whip attachment
Place the mixing bowl in a pan of water @ low to keep warm
Serve with some parsley or good giblet gravy…. joy of cooking recipe

harumph

(3,559 posts)
15. Cold mustard potato salad served with BBQ, a spicy sauce.
Thu Jul 2, 2026, 06:14 PM
10 hrs ago

and a good lager or Hefeweizen.

Bettie

(20,046 posts)
17. Warm German Potato salad
Thu Jul 2, 2026, 06:17 PM
10 hrs ago

like my grandma used to make.

Mashed, scalloped or autgratin, baked....potatoes are life, man.

bcbink

(147 posts)
20. So true!
Thu Jul 2, 2026, 07:40 PM
8 hrs ago

Sometimes the potato was literally everything. Perhaps someone can relate. Just one of those electric skillets from the 70's, salt & pepper' and dinner was served. (Except that one time that Gramma, who was blind in one eye and couldn't see out of the other, used white pepper.) However, hungry eats. The comfort of a potato.

Igel

(37,720 posts)
21. Reuben waffle fries.
Thu Jul 2, 2026, 08:27 PM
8 hrs ago

Take waffle fries, put sauerkraut, swiss cheese, and a crapload of corned beef on it.


Close second, reuben boxty.


And 'comfort food' territory are just plain boxty. But my family's tradition doesn't use grated potatoes--just left over mashed, and they'd be the starch for the meal (with the ever present bread to suit my father).

I was all but force fed potatoes all the years I lived at my parents growing up (and when I visited). I would rather have the accursed tubers raw with salt than mashed or baked or just effing boiled with dried parsley garnish. French fried, sure; scalloped, au gratin, no prob; maybe even pan fried with onions on occasion, ignore the puddle of oil, esp. if fried in the same pan that the chicken or burgers or other dead animal bits were fried in. But mashed. Baked. Boiled. No. (Seriously, I think baked potatoes taste like dirt and mashed taste like dirt with butter and milk or sour cream. My ex and I compromised with garlic potatoes, and she liked my version which were really garlicky and the sour cream wasn't hard to notice ... I had to mask the flavor of dirt but didn't put it that way.)

Disaffected

(6,730 posts)
22. It's not the potatoes.
Thu Jul 2, 2026, 08:34 PM
8 hrs ago

It's the fat, meat and salt that are piled on. The potato acts as a mere means of conveyance from pan to mouth.

róisín_dubh

(12,412 posts)
23. Papas la huancaina
Thu Jul 2, 2026, 10:44 PM
5 hrs ago

Or papas al mojo.
Or my Scottish’s partner’s neeps and tatties or roasted potatoes. Yum.

MurrayDelph

(5,788 posts)
25. My Budapest-born grandmother called it shishkelach
Thu Jul 2, 2026, 10:54 PM
5 hrs ago

Hungarian-Jewish Shlishkas - Potato Dumplings

Basically, gnocchi tossed in a skillet with butter and breadcrumbs



http://www.thespruceeats.com/hungarian-jewish-shlishkas-potato-dumplings-recipe-1135471

3catwoman3

(30,274 posts)
27. Potato chips - LOL!
Thu Jul 2, 2026, 11:03 PM
5 hrs ago

My current favorite is Kettle brand Himalayan Pink Salt potato chips. 2 lb bag from Costco for only $5.99.

Submariner

(13,491 posts)
29. A boiled potato sliced then fried to golden brown
Thu Jul 2, 2026, 11:11 PM
5 hrs ago

in bacon fat in a black cast iron skillet then salted to taste..

La Coliniere

(2,083 posts)
34. Mashed, home fries, roasted, baked, air-fried,
Thu Jul 2, 2026, 11:34 PM
5 hrs ago

potato pancakes, microwaved, or potato salad, I’d choose any of these over fries any day.

buzzycrumbhunger

(2,436 posts)
38. Roasted
Thu Jul 2, 2026, 11:53 PM
4 hrs ago

Big chunks—with equal-sized carrots—roasted until brown and then tossed with butter. The earthy tatties and the sweetness of the carrots together? Yum.

Next to that would be a big baked one with anything or nothing on top.

KitFox

(616 posts)
41. My mom's fried potatoes. She called them buckaroo potatoes. Unpeeled potatoes sliced really thin, fried in cast iron
Fri Jul 3, 2026, 12:42 AM
3 hrs ago

skillet in bacon grease. Don’t disturb until underside is good and crispy then invert onto plate. Heat a little more bacon grease and slip them off the plate to fry the remaining side. The outsides are so crispy and the inside is steamy hot and tender. Those are my favorite if I had to pick just one, but all potatoes are sure fire comfort food.

DFW

(60,862 posts)
42. My wife's "Bratkartoffeln"
Fri Jul 3, 2026, 12:57 AM
3 hrs ago

The potatoes are boiled, then cut into either barely (as in just a little too big) bite-sized pieces and/or slices. Then, they are slow-sautéed in a little bit of butter or oil, mixing in cajun spice for some character. The slow sautée means way less oil/butter is needed, and they are not greasy at all. Then briefly broiled for a slightly crispy exterior.

If all other food in the world should disappear, I could survive on just that for the rest if my life, and just take pills for the nutritional supplements, they taste THAT good.

Number two: Catalan patates braves. Boiled and cut as above (no slices), sautéed in a very spicy mixture of olive oil and heavy garlic aioli. Bring lots of water!

Celerity

(55,435 posts)
46. Janssons frestelse
Fri Jul 3, 2026, 02:49 AM
1 hr ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jansson%27s_temptation

Jansson's Temptation (Swedish: Janssons frestelse) is a traditional Swedish casserole made of potatoes, onions, pickled sprats and cream. It is typically served as a late night meal before the guests leave a party. These days, it is also commonly included in a Swedish julbord (Christmas smörgåsbord), and the Easter påskbuffé, which is lighter than a traditional julbord. The dish is also common in Finland where it is known as janssoninkiusaus.



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