What is your favourite potato dish?

[applegrove]

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Mine? baked potato with sour cream.

[Jerry2144]

1. Does vodka count?

[applegrove]

2. LOL!

[The Wizard]

12. pancakes

[SheltieLover]

3. Any & all!!!

[11 Bravo]

4. Baked, with butter, sour cream, bacon, and shredded cheese.

That's a meal, right there.

[a kennedy]

6. Now this sounds absolutely delicious......

[QED]

5. I love them any way...

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

on edit: grammar!

[TxGuitar]

53. That is the correct answer :) n/t

[Emile]

7. Cheesy potatoes.

[JustAnotherGen]

8. My mom's hot german potato salad

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]

18. I just posted about my grandma's

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]

9. It depends entirely on what is accompanying the potato dish. Nt

[flvegan]

10. Dish full of tater tots.

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]

11. All of them lol but if I had to choose

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

[Iggo]

31. C-c-c-c-cream cheese, you say?

My cardiologist must never learn we spoke of this.

[Luciferous]

33. 🤣

[surrealAmerican]

13. mashed.

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

[Botany]

14. Mashed

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]

15. Cold mustard potato salad served with BBQ, a spicy sauce.

and a good lager or Hefeweizen.

[MustLoveBeagles]

16. Potatoes Augratin

[Bettie]

17. Warm German Potato salad

like my grandma used to make.

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

[chowder66]

19. Shepherds Pie.

[bcbink]

20. So true!

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]

21. Reuben waffle fries.

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]

22. It's not the potatoes.

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]

23. Papas la huancaina

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

[Maru Kitteh]

24. Hash Browns from scratch in a cast iron pan, over a fire.

While camping.

[MurrayDelph]

25. My Budapest-born grandmother called it shishkelach

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]

26. Greek

roasted with lemon, garlic and rosemary. I don't care for potatoes otherwise.

[3catwoman3]

27. Potato chips - LOL!

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

[woodsprite]

28. Au Gratin with extra cheese

A bonus if shaved ham has been added in!

[Submariner]

29. A boiled potato sliced then fried to golden brown

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

[Permanut]

40. Now there's a trip down memory lane..

One of Mom's best dishes; loved 'em.

[Iggo]

30. Mashed, obviously.

[Ocelot II]

32. All of them.

[La Coliniere]

34. Mashed, home fries, roasted, baked, air-fried,

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

[applegrove]

35. I like cold Vichyssoise.

[Sneederbunk]

36. A baked potato with the works.

[Eugene]

37. potato salad

[buzzycrumbhunger]

38. Roasted

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.

[applegrove]

39. Nobody has said boiled new potatoes with butter and chives. Yum.

[KitFox]

41. My mom's fried potatoes. She called them buckaroo potatoes. Unpeeled potatoes sliced really thin, fried in cast iron

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]

42. My wife's "Bratkartoffeln"

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]

43. Pastel de Papa

[applegrove]

44. And corned beef hash.

[Arthur_Frain]

45. I'm just gonna leave this here.

https://www.seriouseats.com/the-best-roast-potatoes-ever-recipe

And you’re all welcome. This is THE best potato dish I ever found.

[Celerity]

46. Janssons frestelse

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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[Polybius]

47. French fries

Potatoes in my opinion are kinda weak. Meh.

[DenaliDemocrat]

48. Gnocchi

No better way to eat potatoes

[GoCubsGo]

49. Sauteed, with basil pesto.

Basil pesto is one of mankind's greatest inventions, and one of only a few things that makes life better than a potato can Throw in some toasted walnuts to those taters, and then add some chopped. crisp bacon (pancetta if you've got it), because everything's better with bacon.

[Blaukraut]

50. My grandmother's 'Schales' (modified Kugel)

My grandmother was raised Jewish and potato kugel was a staple in their household. After she married my Protestant grandfather, she modified the recipe by adding Rauchfleisch (German bacon). My mom taught me how to make it, and I still do on occasion, although it's hard to find real Rauchfleisch here in the US.

[MiHale]

51. Jacques Pepin potatoes ...

http://www.lemonythyme.com/pepin-potatoes-aka-smashed-potatoes/

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[SergeStorms]

52. Scalloped

Baked, with a beautiful creamy sauce with the brown crust on top.

Excuse me while I drown in my own saliva.

[Lasher]

54. Locking.

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