Food & Recipies On or Off

[David64]

I like potatoes. I don't mean with sour cream, cheese, bacon bits and all that. Just a baked potato, a little butter, some salt and that's it. I like the skin on them. Nice crispy skin, fluffy interior....mmmmm. That's why I don't peel them. Any of them. If I'm making roast and potatoes, I get those little ones about the size of a golf ball that have really thin skins and just throw them in. Fries ? Skin on. Mashed ? Skin on....and I don't do garlic and all that other stuff. ANY way I make them, it's skin on.
Potato. Butter. Salt.
I've seen people put chili over a baked potato and that's just wrong.

I do the same thing with carrots. They don't need all the brown sugar or other crap and who ever thought up the "traditional" marshmallows on top of sweet potatoes should be shot. They call them SWEET potatoes for a reason, they don't need all that extra sugar.

So....skin on or off ?

 

[Bally]

I like skin on. Roasted. I do like wrapping spuds in foil and cooking them under coals on the fire or bury them in hot ash. Test with a skewer. Unwrap, bit of butter, all's good.

Skin peeled for mash though.

Bally)

 

[Freija]

I've always been a skin on kind of gal too. Give them taters a good scrub and then do whatever with them.

That is until I got my air fryer about a decade later than everyone else just 6 months ago and started doing this:

• Peel them spuds. One is more than enough for me
• Cut into 1/2" cubes and toss 'em into a casserole dish
• Optional but makes them crispier - dust very lightly with flour
• Add seasoning - I use McCormick's Montreal Steak Seasoning
• Add maybe 1/4 to 1/2 cup of grated Parmesan cheese - the kind in the green container
• Mix everything around so it all gets covered
• Douse it all with a good splash of olive oil and mix again
• Air fry 10 minutes at 400, shaking half way through

They come out awesome. Crispy outside and tender inside. Good for dipping, I like chunky blue cheese dressing.

You would think adding the olive oil earlier would make the seasoning and Parmesan stick better but through trial and error, I found out it works better last.

 

[Bally]

Goiod recipe. Similar for my Air Fryer but I leave the skin on and just add salt and olive oil before cooking.

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