Fried potatoes (Smothered potatoes for the southerners) is easy enough to do but not always as easy as you think. This video will show you how to make perfect fried potatoes every time.
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@@DCMO60 I prefer the single reed duck calls. No one has ever really explained the whole double reed and its pros and cons. I do not blow a duck call very often like I did back when I was younger but I still do from time to time.
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Joe, I actually miss your canned sliced potatoes!......you need to fry them up and give out your favorite recipe for them........I started to enjoy them too now........an acquired taste but, fantastic!
My Mom did the same, except add a couple strips of bacon cut up with the onions and cook in a cast iron skillet with a glass cover to retain the moisture and steam them. She called them "Soft Fries" I just had some tonight, except I add more bacon and call ir supper.
My Dad was a trained Chef, but he made, to me, the best Fried potatoes! I think he took your lead in the way he did them, too. Now that I think of it, he also used reds. Semper fidelis
Looks great! A tid bit between half way and three quarters of the way done you can add a little bit of water into your pan and cover it makes the potatoes cook faster. Then do the same as you do to brown them!! Just a suggestion 😊
Looks like I'm about a year late commenting those potatoes look fantastic I have always used russet potatoes but I'm going to start trying these red ones I believe the red ones would probably be better but I guess it's just a personal preference for whoever when I was a little girl 3 years old I started eating potatoes and I love potatoes I would rather have potatoes of some sort don't care how they're cooked sometimes better than meat well almost Joe your a keeper and so is Milisa watched you for years you feel like family love Sarah too love from Georgia
I made these a few weeks back when all the kids, grands and greats were here instead of mashed. I made extra because I remembered my boys loved them as kids. Well about 7 pounds actually. Well there wasn't a crumb left. Even the littlest ones loved them. Next time I'll make 10 pounds!
My Dutch grandmother taught me how to fry potatoes in much the same way, but she only used butter, I use butter and olive oil to do mine. She also did not cover the pan, just let it sit uncovered on a low heat, but I cover mine to stop splatter. Yum, yum!
Your making me hungry Joe. That's how I love to cook my potatoes for breakfast along with a onion and a can of mushrooms stems and pieces and basted eggs and the restaurant up town is famous for cooking potatoes like I do but they also put a slice of cheese on also. Potatoes, bacon and eggs in a metal frying pan over a campfire or on the stove and you have the American Farmers Breakfast.
Very good dish, I love my smothered potatoes with lots of onion. If you guys haven't tried joe or melissa's canned hard boiled egg receipe I suggest you do so. Very delicious eggs for sure.
Nothing wrong with frying in bacon grease, my great Gma fried everything in bacon grease and had bacon and eggs for breakfast everyday and lived to celebrate her 107th birthday plus 6 months
Oh yea, I'm in New England and we use bacon fat for frying a lot of food. Keep a container for bacon fat just like my grandmother. Store in Fridge. We call these 'Home Fries' and serve then for breakfast or with some dinners. And they are good with grated cheese over the top just before taking them from the cast iron pan. Great job Joe!
I like to bake the potatoes the night before and then do them O'Brien style. They cook up really fast that way. I just cook the onion and bell pepper first and then add diced up baked potato. I'm not saying my way is better just different. I've had potatoes many different ways. recently I like to put two eggs over easy on top of them with my favorite hot sauce Valentina.
born n raised in the south weve always called them fried potatoes. Theyre called smothered potatoes if you put gravy over them or cover them in cheese and top with green onions and sour cream or other toppings like a bake potatoe. I also cook sausage or hot dogs in them sometimes. they are good like that with chilli poured over them.
Joe I have eaten fried taters and onions my entire 51 years. And never heard them called smothered. I have seen and heard smothered and covered but that consisted of puttin meat, veggies, cheese and gravy on them. But nah just fried taters with or without onions. They looked dam tasty!!
Try putting sliced okra in them Joe. You'll love it. My wife is from Jeanerette, Louisiana and she said she hasn't ever heard anyone call them smothered potatoes either.
You and me both...I'm a ketchup nut! Being on Keto that was one of the things that bothered me and then taadaaa, they came out with a sugar free ketchup! :)
NOOOOOO Ruin perfectly good fried potatoes!! Well now the green onion I'll agree with. LOL LOL sssssst How about a diced jalapeno or two to spice 'em up a bit? ;-)
Oh my aching head. So what you're telling me is I've been doing this backwards all my life. I've always browned them up first then covered the pan for them to soften and cook through. And voila burnt potatoes. Thank you Joe. You've cleared up one of life's mysteries for me. ☺️
Growing up my mother would bake potatoes for a meal (10 lbs at least) She cut up the left over baked potatoes and fry them up like this but use shortening instead of butter.
I’m from south Arkansas but I live in northwest Arkansas and I say fried and not smothered potatoes. Sorry I haven’t watched in a few days , I have been sick with this horrible virus. Am better now.. I like my fried potatoes with some onions cooked right along with them. Delicious. I’m sure your potatoes are also good. You seem to always be cooking. Are you doing this video for your wife. If you ever do another show on RU-vid , I have a good title.
I love fried potatoes and onions. Try adding some chopped smoked sausage with it too. That is delicious too. That will add your meat and vegs in one dish. I know how you hate doing dishes. lol I hate doing them as well.
Yes down south they are called fried Potatoes too. Been to a lot of southern states and those are fried potatoes now smothered means you add some peppers or some type of meat ham, bacon and smother it in cheese. Now that is all the way to Florida is smothered Potatoes. But those are fried and look good. Enjoy. Yes red potatoes are the best.
Born and raised in South Louisiana, I had never heard them called fried potatoes until Joe made them for me. Maybe the cheese is the difference, we always had cheese in ours.
As The Rooster Crows Melissa I think your right. But on the farm here in NC. We Love fried potatoes and also the smothered as well. Love you guys. You make our family smile. Were experiencing severe weather here. Tornadoes, flooding, so much damage. Said cold front came in wind and snow behind. I hear it was rough down south as well. Hope your family is safe in Louisiana 🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼
Frugal Farmer Channel I know 😓😓. The wind has been so bad here today. Blowing trees down displacing families. Yesterday was awful prayers for all families from yesterday 🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼. Snow tomorrow they say. Then 50 next week with lots more rain and flooding. 😓
