{"id":37,"date":"2009-11-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/fmblog\/the-trick-to-great-home-fries-is\/"},"modified":"2009-11-01T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-01T12:00:00","slug":"the-trick-to-great-home-fries-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/fmblog\/the-trick-to-great-home-fries-is\/","title":{"rendered":"The trick to great home fries is\u2026."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20091126003748\/http:\/\/www.feedmittens.com\/fmblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/IMG_0489.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_0489\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-381\" height=\"199\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20091126003748im_\/http:\/\/www.feedmittens.com\/fmblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/IMG_0489-300x199.jpg\" title=\"IMG_0489\" width=\"300\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s very simple, actually.\u00c2\u00a0 I have no idea why I didn\u2019t figure this out years ago.\u00c2\u00a0 To make great home fries, simply boil the potatoes whole for fifteen minutes then cool them down in the fridge before chopping up and frying.\u00c2\u00a0 Otherwise you over-fry them to get them cooked all the way through or you under-cook them and they taste like, well, uncooked potato with a horrible texture.\u00c2\u00a0 This step ensures a good outcome.<\/p>\n<p>My home fries today were great.\u00c2\u00a0 I did the above boiling (boiled water, then put in potatoes for 15min, then refrigerated for about a half hour), the chopped them up evenly, then put into my cast iron skillet that I\u2019d made bacon in earlier today (complete with the grease).\u00c2\u00a0 Added some diced onion, pepper, a pinch of salt, then some Sriracha hot sauce.\u00c2\u00a0 They came out perfect.<\/p>\n<p>(FYI I used standard russet potatoes, regular fresh ground pepper, Morton\u2019s table salt, and just a normal white onion\u2026)<\/p>\n<p>For more information on <strong>Sriracha Sauce<\/strong>, check out <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20091126003748\/http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/20\/dining\/20united.html\" target=\"_blank\">this article in the NY Times from earlier this year<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 The stuff goes great with a lot of foods.\u00c2\u00a0 Hot, tasty stuff.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20091126003748\/http:\/\/www.feedmittens.com\/fmblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/IMG_0491.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_0491\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-382\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20091126003748im_\/http:\/\/www.feedmittens.com\/fmblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/IMG_0491-199x300.jpg\" title=\"IMG_0491\" width=\"199\"\/><\/a><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s very simple, actually.\u00c2\u00a0 I have no idea why I didn\u2019t figure this out years ago.\u00c2\u00a0 To make great home fries, simply boil the potatoes whole for fifteen minutes then cool them down in the fridge before chopping up and frying.\u00c2\u00a0 Otherwise you over-fry them to get them cooked all the way through or you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/fmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/fmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/fmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/fmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/fmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/fmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/fmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/fmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}