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[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Thinking about the Gaffer's taters the other night, so I made up some Raw Fries.

You'll need
A frying pan (skillet) with a good lid
Vegetable oil
Potatoes
Onion
Seasoned Salt or whatever pleases you
a little water

Put enough oil in your frying pan to just cover the bottom and heat about medium
Dice up some onion and start it in the oil
Wash the potatoes and then slice or shred them. One big potato can fill a skillet or a couple of small ones. By now the onion should be beginning to be transparent.
Add the potatoes to the oil carefully.
Let the potatoes brown a bit, flipping occasionally to spread the brownness. Now's a good time to add the seasoned salt.
When you've got some brown on the taters, put a little water in the lid of the frying pan and then turn it into the pan and cover it tightly so the potatoes will steam themselves cooked. Check in about five to eight minutes, and if the taters are done, serve with ketchup.

Comments

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

That sounds delicious!

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

It is. If you don't mind living dangerously you can make them with a little bacon too...

[melilot-hill.livejournal.com]

I'll just have to try that, it sounds delicious :)

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Yeah. How long you steam 'em depends a little on how long you browned 'em, but just go till they taste right and you'll be fine.

Now I'm all hungry.

[ansostuff.livejournal.com]

Mmm... That sounds nice, homemade fries. Might try that. Thanks for sharing.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Mind you, they're not like french fries, which are deep fat fried -- more like hashbrowns. But tasty...

[ansostuff.livejournal.com]

We usually eat a lot of boiled potatoes, and if we don`t eat all after dinner we save them for a few days till we have enough to fry them with onion and maybe sausage or bacon or egg. That is good too.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Yup, that's what we call hashbrowns. (At least in my family, which has a Norwegian streak on my mother's side.) Rawfries just start with the fresh potato. And depending on how long you steam 'em, they can be a little crisper than twice-cooked taters.

[sila-lumenn.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, sounds yummy. Now I'm all hungry for taters 'n' onions! Maybe for dinner tonight with chicken...

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Tis good! But trust your own instincts and not my clock to tell you when they're "done."!