Homemade French Fries

I don’t eat many potatoes but occasionally I like a good french fry. Today I’m going to show you my latest and greatest meal…. homemade french fries!

A few years back I got Alexandra a Mandoline food slicer for onions. At the time I didn’t realize it also had a setting for making french fries, it took me 3 years to figure that out while dialing the width to cut onions.

They are so easy to make, wash the potatoes and leave the skin on. Then I sliced them into skinny strips and soaked for about 15 minutes in cold water. I drained them on paper towels and when to canola oil was hot I carefully dropped the potato strips in to fry. They fried up quick and when they were slightly brown I scooped them out and let drain on paper towels.

Meanwhile while I was starting the french fries, Rich found a recipe he wanted to try to BBQ chicken. We only had frozen chicken breast stripes but they works. He mixed BBQ sauce with Italian dressing and mixed that with the chicken for about 15 minutes before putting them on the grill.

Our homemade fries and BBQ chicken dinner was delicious and so easy!

Since I had the oil left over, the next day I made fries again! I know, we shouldn’t eat too much fried food but this was the exception, it was too good not to have again. For this meal I boiled up some shrimp and put on ice while I sauteed some sea scallops. Since I had the pan with the scallops I tossed in a few shrimp to saute up too. It was another quick and delicious meal. My homemade french fries were a big hit.

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Martha DeMeo

I started my blog on Christmas Day 2014 mainly to review products I received. Since then it has evolved into many other categories of lifestyles, family, money saving ideas, low cost, delicious and healthy meals plus other surprise posts. My granddaughter has her own category, Alex's Articles and the latest addition to my blog is my great granddaughter now has her category, Lia's Likings The Baby Blogger! Lia started blogger at 8 months old and she now has a Friday Story Time blog you won't want to miss! I welcome you to join the conversation, ask a question, give a suggestion or leave a comment on any blog post. I hope you enjoy Lia's Likings, she has some great posts that will make you smile!

16 Discussion to this post

  1. Tamara says:

    I applaud you for making your own fries from scratch. I bet they taste wonderful!
    Anything fried is not on my plan for now and the foreseeable future, bur I don’t mind.

  2. Brenda Marie Fluharty says:

    I love French fries. Who doesn’t right. You gave me an idea, I wonder what they would taste like with ranch dressings.

  3. Wonderful! I have a love/hate relationship with our mandoline. I love the speed, I love the results, I hate having to set-up and cleaning it when I am done. Sometimes I wonder if just using a knife is faster.

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  4. Amrita says:

    The meals look delicious and home made fries are way better.

    • Martha says:

      Yes they are Amrita! I don’t eat many potatoes but every now and then I will. By favorite are sweet potatoes and I think I’ll make some fries with them!

  5. Martha, you are inspiring me again! I have a mandolin (sp?) and must see if it has a French Fry setting! <3

  6. I love me some sweet potato fries! I make them often for the Hubs and me in the oven – great with a lot of dishes

  7. They even look beautiful! Just tell me what time to be there for dinner. 😉

  8. I love a good homemade French Fries!

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