Hash Brown Fries

I love french fries, who doesn't, right? I've been making my own fries for a while now, because not only is it cheaper to buy whole potatoes than those frozen bags of ready made fries, but this way I make them just the way i like them and I get to control the amount of oil that goes in.

I call them hash brown fries because I make them in two different ways. the first way, they come out more like hash browns and the second way, they are more like french fries.

For both recipes, all you need is a potato or two, a little bit of oil, your favorite dried spices and a frying pan.

For the hash browns, cut the potatoes along the length of the potato (the short way) about 1/4 inch thick circles, then cut the circles into 1/2 inch strips. Place the potato strips into a bowl with about 1 tablespoon of olive oil per potato. Mix in your spices, I like to use garlic salt, pepper, and onion powder. Throw that into your frying pan, keep an eye it for the first minute or two so that the potatoes dont stick to the pan. When the potatoes start to clump together, dont worry, thats supposed to happen. Once that starts to happen you can either turn the heat way down and let it cook, or you can continue to watch it.


For the french fries, you are going to prepare the potatoes the same way, except for two differences. The first is cut the potatoes along the width (the long way) keeping them about 1/4 inch thick, then cut them into strips about 1/3 inch thick. The second thing you are going to do is once the potatoes are cut up in your bowl, fill the bowl up with water, then drain all the water out. That is going to wash off the "juices" from the potato that keeps the strips clumped together for the hash browns. Additionally, you need to keep an eye on the fries regardless of how high the heat is. Burnt fries are bad fries.