What do you eat with your potatoes?

Question

Who uses vinegar at the table? Who sticks to salt or ketchup?

Answer 1

depends on how the potatoes are cooked

vinegar on fries is good, so is salt and ketchup, so is gravy,
the best is Poutine - French fries with cheese curds and gravy

Answer 2

Vinegar on potatoes? Yuk! Now salt should be added to the water (once it starts boiling) you are cooking your potatoes in. As far as ketchup goes... Sure, it there are french fries, or crocqets (it's mashed potatoe covered with light breading and baked or deep fried); however, I have heard of and seen people pour ketchup over their potatoes too but personally, I prefer gravy. I am an "old school" cook, and have learned from my Mom in Germany. If I make plain boiled potatoes (like with meat, fish, chicken), I'll most likely try to make gravy too. When it comes to fish, it gets tricky, but in that case you can always melt some butter (salted) and poor it over the potatoes. When making meat, you can almost always get a gravy out of the juices, especially when prepared stove top with EVOO or fried in a little margerine. Same with chicken, if baked in the oven and a drip pan is placed underneath. When I bake a fryer in the oven, I always used a deep drip pan, add a peeled and cut onion, some leeks (ahh, the flavour), some shortening and water (don't forget the water or the shortening will smoke up your kitchen). Every few minutes I take a baster and baste the bird with the drippings combined with the ingredients of the drip pan. When the bird is done, I take the drip pan out, place it on the stove, add some more water, bring to boil, thicken with cornstarch (won't clump like flower) and season with salt, chicken seasoning and Maggi seasoning. Along with the leeks and onions, which you can now take out (most likely they are blackened by now anyways) and discard. If you have some sour cream or creme fraiche available, add a dap of it. Hmmm! Yummie! Or add a pinch of condensed milk. Both will make the gravy really creamy. Pour over your boiled potatoes and chicken and boy, you are in for a treat. If I decide on mashed potatoes, again, I peel and cut the potatoes, bring to boil in water, add salt (always wait 'til the water boils because the salt gets absorbed into the potatoe then and if you use sea salt, it isn't so bad for you either :) unlike common belief), boil for additional 20-30 mins., depending on amount and cut, then take off stove, discard water, put back on stove to steam off the rest of the water, add and heat up a little milk some margerine and begin mashing (best with a masher by hand) until nice and fluffy. Serve with any meat, poultry, fish, even fish sticks for the kids and they'll love it! Hope I was able to answer your question to your satisfaction. Of course, there are many more ways to prepare potatoes but these are the most common (in my opinion). Enjoy and boy, am I hungry now :) MsB.
P.S. When in a crunch for time or just plain lazy, I make some mashed potatoes and put a fried egg over them or just a couple of wieners on the side. Voila, you have a meal. Serve with or without veggies! For me, I am fine with just the potatoes but then again, I grew up on them.

Answer 3

FF- salt & ketchup
Fried taters-salt, pepper & ketchup
Mashed taters- brown or white gravy
Baked potatoe-butter, sour cream, cheese, bacon, chives
Sweet potatoes-butter & sugar

I do not use vinegar at the table or anywhere else.

Answer 4

Mashed potatos = sour cream, garlic, butter, kosher salt, pepper
Baked potatos = lemon juice, butter, kosher salt, fresh ground pepper
Hash Browns = catsup, hot sauce, salt, pepper
French Fries = mustard and catsup
Home Fries = salt, pepper, pickled jalapenos, cheese

Answer 5

salt on fries = YUMMY!
Whip Cream & Bacon = Potatoes

Answer 6

I like gravy on my potato's.