Grandma's Smothered Fried Potatoes /Old Recipe 

My mother used to make something similar to this. She was born in 1921 in Athens Alabama. I grew up eating pinto beans, corn bread and fried potatoes. I’m healthy having grown up eating this inexpensive food 😁

Exactly how I cook my taters. Never called them smothered just fried taters. Love them!! Thank You for Sharing and God Bless You!!

This is how I make fried potatoes, except I use bacon grease. Yummy

I cook my potatoes simar. Smothered Fried Potatoes sounds way better than what I call mine which is pan fried potatoes. Your knife skills are amazing.

There’s nothing better than new potatoes❣️

I love smothered potatoes! I haven’t made them in years. But I will be cooking them today! The only thing that I do differently is to cook bacon in them, cut up in small pieces. Thank you for reminding me of this Ms.Margaret! Have a blessed day!🙏🏻♥️

I absolutely love your Red & White Enamel ware lid! It reveals how much it has been used in preparing food for the table I'm sure with so much love over the decades...(Circa 1940 & earlier on the Red & White)... My grandmother (She was a Tuscaloosa Gal) used to make these smothered fried potatoes often...I have tried & tried to replicate them 100s of times and mine NEVER turn out like Maw Maw's! I thank you so very much for your videos & this one in particular....maybe now...I can make these without them turning to mush! ❤️&🙏

The potatoes look great. This is how my mother taught me. She also taught me not to throw away things that still work so I have many items like that lid and I wouldn't change it for anything. Thanks for the great video and memories.

I like that you're generous with the salt and pepper-especially the pepper!

YUM! Looks delicious. You are amazing with that knife.

❤ Yum! This is how my grandma made em and I make em same way. Perfect with beans and cornbread and a slice of fresh onion too. Good old country cooking.

I'm 68yrs old, family of 6, and we ate this same meal growing up. Awesome meal.

Hi Margaret. Hope you and yours are keeping well. I can smell this delicious dish through the technology. God bless. Thank you for all your lessons on RU-vid.💕🙏🌹

Yes mam, looks delicious!

I'm a 64 yr old Guy that cant cook , But I'm going to try that. Looks Good. Oh, your knife skills are impressive. You peeled and cut up those Potatoes licky split.😄

I love your videos! Thank you so much for sharing the recipe and showing us how to do it!❤

You made me cry….I miss her

We just called them fried potatos but made them exactly the same way.

I love these Margaret.

That's how my mama cooked and that's how I cook them thank you

Yummy!!

Yummy 😋 thank you for sharing 😋

Looks yummy.

Exactly how my Mother did it! (Except she cut em up into cubes!)

Margaret, oil? Really? You must be out of lard LOL! Bacon grease works to but that has to be saved for sawmill gravy ;) Anyway, looks delicious!

Thanks for sharing Margaret, that looks good, what kind of oil do you use in the pan?

Miss Pepper; I must ask, did you wash those red potatoes after cutting them up or did you leave the starch in them on purpose?

I've been doing it all wrong , but I get the same results. I brown my potatoes first not using a lid. Then when they are sufficiently brown I put the lid on to cook them. But doing that will take away some of the crispness. Then I turn heat up to crisp them back up without a lid. So basically you are working smarter, while I'm working harder. Next time I will do it your way. Thanks for sharing.

My dry canned potatoes are used this way

I cut my potatos in small squares.

I live in Texas and love food like this but I don't understand how they can be called "smothered"? This is fried skillet potatoes and onions here. Could someone elaborate? They look delicious btw.

My mama used bacon grease for fried potatoes, and kept putting that cover on! So good!!! Miss my Mom so very much. She passed in 1975, but it feels like yesterday. Praise God for His promises. We will be together one day soon😁🇺🇸🙏

So this is pretty much how everyone else made them in their videos 😂

Are you my grandma?

You never showed any grease going in that pan. You sprayed it with Pam. That’s all we saw.

Can you make an anime red motel or or can you

Brownden??🤣

She went from saying "oil" - properly pronounced . . . to "ohl" - which the printed subtitles interpreted as "old one" . . . and "browning" was pronounced "browndin' " and I couldn't help wonder what a foreign person might have thought of that. But the recipe - was wonderful . . .

Why are people calling fried potatoes, smother-fried? They're not smothered in anything.