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— @putawomanincharge.bsky.social 2026-07-02T14:44:32.570Z
Mine? baked potato with sour cream.
Jerry2144
(3,393 posts)applegrove
(133,949 posts)The Wizard
(13,960 posts)SheltieLover
(82,826 posts)11 Bravo
(24,376 posts)That's a meal, right there.
a kennedy
(36,810 posts)QED
(3,384 posts)my aunt used to call me Spud because I'd always volunteer to finish off the mashed potatoes at Thanksgiving dinner.
on edit: grammar!
Emile
(44,228 posts)JustAnotherGen
(38,224 posts)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)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.
Fiendish Thingy
(24,581 posts)flvegan
(66,692 posts)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)I would have to say mashed potatoes made with butter and cream cheese 🤤
Iggo
(50,149 posts)My cardiologist must never learn we spoke of this.
surrealAmerican
(11,954 posts)A lot of good alternatives, though - wouldn't say no to some hashed browns, for example.
Botany
(78,330 posts)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)and a good lager or Hefeweizen.
MustLoveBeagles
(18,453 posts)Bettie
(20,046 posts)like my grandma used to make.
Mashed, scalloped or autgratin, baked....potatoes are life, man.
chowder66
(12,729 posts)bcbink
(147 posts)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)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)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)Or papas al mojo.
Or my Scottishs partners neeps and tatties or roasted potatoes. Yum.
Maru Kitteh
(32,121 posts)While camping.
MurrayDelph
(5,788 posts)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
u4ic
(17,190 posts)roasted with lemon, garlic and rosemary.
I don't care for potatoes otherwise.
3catwoman3
(30,274 posts)My current favorite is Kettle brand Himalayan Pink Salt potato chips. 2 lb bag from Costco for only $5.99.
woodsprite
(12,600 posts)A bonus if shaved ham has been added in!
Submariner
(13,491 posts)in bacon fat in a black cast iron skillet then salted to taste..
Permanut
(8,744 posts)One of Mom's best dishes; loved 'em.
Iggo
(50,149 posts)Ocelot II
(131,905 posts)La Coliniere
(2,083 posts)potato pancakes, microwaved, or potato salad, Id choose any of these over fries any day.
applegrove
(133,949 posts)Sneederbunk
(17,795 posts)Eugene
(67,478 posts)buzzycrumbhunger
(2,436 posts)Big chunkswith equal-sized carrotsroasted 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.
applegrove
(133,949 posts)KitFox
(616 posts)skillet in bacon grease. Dont 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)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!
JoseBalow
(9,946 posts)
applegrove
(133,949 posts)Arthur_Frain
(2,432 posts)And youre all welcome. This is THE best potato dish I ever found.
Celerity
(55,435 posts)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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