One Potato, Two Potato: 300 Recipes from Simple to ...

DIVEveryone loves potatoes. This book transports cooks beyond the usual side dishes and introduces them to the secrets and specialties of great chefs and cooks the world over. Finamore shows how to prepare spectacularly simple appetizers, including dips, chips, and showstopping cocktail potatoes made from a few ordinary ingredients. He presents dozens of soups and salads, including rich Summer Vichyssoise and Herb Garden Potato Salad. There are more than fifty main-dish possibilities, such as Sunday Lamb with Proper Roast Potatoes and Chicken Stuffed with Potatoes and Shiitake Mushrooms - not to mention a sophisticated rendition of Shepherd's Pie. The potato turns up as the hidden ingredient in such breads as Potato Cheddar Bread with Chives and in such desserts as moist Farmhouse Chocolate Cake. Finamore shows how to master crisp steak fries, silky mashes, and sumptuous gratins. A bonus feature of the book is the sweet potato, in dishes from a delightfully nostalgic Baked Sweet Potatoes with Marshmallow to an urbane Semifreddo with Chocolate Sauce.br/DIVDIVIntroduction Potato Principles Notes for the CookbrbrAppetizers and First Courses Soups Salads Main Dishes Mashed Potatoes Fried Potatoes Baked and Roasted Potatoes Gratins and Scalloped Potatoes Braised Potatoes Boiled Potatoes Breads and Rolls DessertsbrbrBibliography Indexbrbrbrbr/DIVDIVClassic French Fries Serves 4 to 6 This is as much a technique as it is a recipe. Two pounds of russets will give you enough fries for 4 to 6 people, but you can just cut up as many fries as you feel like eating. We do. Remember: this isn't a last-minute side dish.brWhile we don't say no to ketchup, we also like dipping our fries in mayonnaise.brbr2 pounds russet potatoes, peeled Oil for frying (peanut or a neutral vegetable oil) Coarse saltbrbrCut the potatoes lengthwise into 1/4-inch sticks. A mandoline is the tool you want to be using