French fries with a twist

**ricksrealpitbbq** · 10-10-2009, 07:32 PM

This is something my french aunt always made for us kids and tonight my wife made it and I thought I'd share it with you.

Next time you make french fries (and I'm assuming every one knows I'm not talking about the frozen kind ) Next time slice up an onion and fry it along with the potatoes. I really adds a lot to your basic fries. you don't even need salt and pepper it's that good.

enjoy

**Cook Chatty Cathy** · 10-10-2009, 09:15 PM

Will def. give it a try next time we do french fries! Thanks for the tip. That'd be good for Jpshaw too as he could enjoy his fries and not have to worry about salting them

**Mama Mangia** · 10-10-2009, 09:25 PM

taters and onions deep fried are the best! sometimes I just sprinkle with a bit of paprika - just for "the look"

**chubbyalaskagriz** · 10-11-2009, 12:14 AM

My mom used to fry potatoes from raw in a black cast iron skillet, with an onion sliced up and thrown in w/ it. She'd fry'em until brown, crusty and crunchy... This was a starch we ate regularly to accompany many dishes from pork chops to fish. She also used to make them when she simmered up a big pot of ham n' beans. Our routine was, we'd split a big slice of cornbread onto a plate or in a large bowl. Spoon some of the fried potatoes atop- then smother all in several ladles of rich, smokey navy beans and ham- then sprinkle w/ hot sauce. YUM! MMM... the good ol' days!

**Mama Mangia** · 10-11-2009, 06:54 AM

I love crispy fired taters and onions! You're right - they complimented anything - moms sure knew how to fill our tummies! And they were cheap staples in those days.

**jglass** · 10-11-2009, 04:50 PM

Kev that is the same way we have always fixed fried taters around here. Nothing better with a pot of pinto beans, greens and cornbread. A diced up turnip is yummy fried in with the taters and onion.

**Cook Chatty Cathy** · 10-11-2009, 07:18 PM

Our family had a big favorite..The big Lima Beans, Greens and Corn Bread...my oh my it sure doesn't get much better than that!

Janie I love turnip roots, I never had them fried, I will have to give that a try sometime! I like mine boiled in with greens or even better I peel, and cube them, boil then drain and add just butter, salt & pepper on top of them...delicious!!!

**Keziah** · 10-12-2009, 09:05 AM

What you call fries, I call chips.

I always cook chips from fresh potatoes and cook them in sunflower oil. Never buy frozen. Mind you we don't eat them very often. Perhaps two or three times a year.

When I was a kid, we used to have chips fried in dripping (beef fat), they were delicious back then, the smell of the fat now turns my stomach.

I used to remembera whole crowd of us going swiming in the local council, open air, swimming pool in the early Autumn and on the way home, having a 6d bag of chips from the fish and chip shop.

A bag of piping hot chips drenched in vinegar so much so that the vinegar vapour goes up your nose and makes you cough,,,, and served in grease proof and newspaper, walking home huffing the chips to cool them because they were so hot and me being so hungry. Yum, those were there days.