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German potato dumplings!
Maybe I never had a good one? I could probably find a hundred potato dishes more delicious than the German potato dumpling, including straight up boiled potatoes with butter.
Could be, my Oma made em from scratch only for Thanksgiving and Christmas. It was my favorite food then and I miss them now.
I need to find an authentic German grandma that can make some proper dumplings for me, then I can make a proper judgement!
Yes you do!
Food
Tater tot hotdish
How has no one said a loaded baked potato.
Large large potato Stuffed with shredded chicken or pulled pork, bacon, sour cream, cheese, and chives, then bbq sauce or some hot sauce.
That's perfect use for a potato.
...post-apocalyptic artificial intelligence...
More potatoes.
circa 7000 BCE, colorized
Twice-baked potatoes. Bake them, lay them on the side, slice the top off, scoop out the potato while leaving the skin intact like a little boat. Mash the spuds with butter, sour cream, seasoning salt, cheese, and bacon bits (scallions too if you like them - I don’t), scoop back into the potato, shred more cheese on top, bake until melted.
Perfection.
In taiwan they bake them, mash them, sculpt the mash into a potato shape, bread that, fry it, cut that open, then serve it with some combo of broccoli, corn, pineapple, shrimp, oyster mushroom and always swimming in an inch of nacho cheese.
Damn I really miss living in Taiwan
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Chips
This
I wasn't expecting this reaction...
I know someone else has posted it but I'll add it here for visibility
Cottage Pie, Shepherds Pie, or Irish Stew.
Potatoes bringing it all together.
Kesselsknall. A German recipe, basically a large hash brown with bacon and sausage, baked in an oven.
Potato scones. Paired with Lorne sausage and you have the best breakfast ever.
Vodka
Either you've never tasted vodka or you've never tasted anything else made from potatoes.
Best thing != best tasting thing
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Food aside, I've used disposable spoons/forks/knives made of potato as a plastic alternative. Unlike pretty much every similar product that has a weird taste/texture or shit durability, the potato ones were pretty much indistinguishable from plastic except that the texture was kinda higher traction if that makes any sense. Like it'd kinda grab your lips a bit as they were sliding across a spoon, vs the plastic version is slightly less friction.
But, you stop noticing that after like the third bite.
Haven't seen them used in years, so no idea if they're still being produced, but it seemed like a golden standard to replace plastic the few times I used it.
/shrug
That's a thing?? Whoa. The wooden ones SUCK, plastic is alright but plastic... how are the potato ones to clean? One of the nice things about the plastic ones is you can clean them and keep them around in your bag for next time you need a spoon.
No idea. I think the pitch was for them to be biodegradable in a fairly short timespan, so I'd guess they don't hold up well to sustained moisture. If you washed them immediately after using and then dry them off, you could probably get some reusability out of them. They're not like that horrible paper shit that starts falling apart mid-use, but only ever used them after they were provided when ordering takeout - used em once and threw them out.
That makes sense!
Mashed, but the key is lots of cream cheese
I'm thinking about some labne, which tastes cream cheesy but has the sour cream texture. Fuck I gotta bake potatoes this week
pierogi, duh
Potato plants
The better question is to ask what's the worst thing made from potatoes. It's potatoes, boil them, mash them, stick them in a stew, can't go wrong.
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French fries (from Belgium with mayonnaise)
yes
Tots dude. They're basically cylindrical hashbrowns. You can eat them straight up with some sauce, throw them in a breakfast burrito, or use them as the base for a casserole
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I've been pan frying pre boiled potatoes for breakfast instead of toast. Pop a couple of fried eggs on top. Vege snags and caramelised onion on the side. 🤌🤌🤌
I'm struggling to decide between hasselback, mashed, potato cakes, and scalloped.
To make matters worse, I have discovered the existence of bloomin potatoes and pommes anna.
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I think that "best" is tough, but some that I like:
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Smashed potatoes. More texture than mashed. I favor olive oil over butter.
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Uno's
a US Chicago-style pizza chain
has an appetizer that they call "pizza skins", which is a deep dish pizza basically containing loaded mashed potatoes. I think that it's pretty good, better than their regular pizzas.
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