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[pmcd9]

Hope all you all rocketd your Sunday Funday!

[pmcd9]

Last night I enjoyed a wonderful Easter "Seder" with my beautiful parents. Dad loves my beans with sausage. We also had pork chops and the last of the leftover dressing from Christmas that I have been keeping in the freezer.

After dinner we watched Shout at the Devil, a really dumb, but fun movie on the Netflix. Lots of stuff gets blown up.

Today I made hash browns for the first time ever. It's a skill I did not know I possessed. Apparently all you need to do is shred a potato and throw it in a skillet with some oil. Couldn't be easier.

Happy Easter, he is risen.

[theinevitable]

my hash browns are never crispy enough. Hmmm.

[Choop]

according to my research, no hash browns exist that are crispy enough

excuse me, i didn't order floppy matchsticks.

[wombat]

The hash browns recipe in the Achewood cookbook is actually really good. They're not shredded. Cut the potatoes in cubes the size of computer keys and put them in the pan and leave them the fuck alone until they brown before you turn them over. That's it. The leaving them the fuck alone is the really important part.

[Doc]

In cooking and in life I've always had the most trouble with that part.

[CortJstr]

To the best of my knowledge I've never eaten hashbrowns.

Today's Dr. McNinja has a pretty fine alt text.

[AugustWest]

The hash browns recipe in the Achewood cookbook is actually really good. They're not shredded. Cut the potatoes in cubes the size of computer keys and put them in the pan and leave them the fuck alone until they brown before you turn them over. That's it. The leaving them the fuck alone is the really important part.

My mother-in-law used to do something similar to that, only the potatoes were cut a little bigger and parboiled before frying them in an inch of butter.

[Choop]

sorry folks, those ain't hash browns. they're home fries. hash browns is grated tates.

[wombat]

You're right - he calls them home fries. But I would have brought them up in the context even if I'd remembered that, because they are better than any hash browns I have ever had.

[pmcd9]

People really love to talk about hash browns, it seems. There was a lot of content in my post, but it's only hash browns that gets talked about. It's the same on Facebook. Not complaining, just making note.

PS- My hash browns were nice and crunchy.

[theinevitable]

I hope that no matter how old I get or how many other jobs I do, I always remember how much one nice interaction with a customer can cheer me up. A local politician who I met a few months ago just came in and made a point of coming over to say hi and shoot the shit for a minute. He's got my vote for life. I feel similarly about the guy who used to take extra-long smoke breaks to talk to me when I had my weird curbside service job.

Lately I am back in an intellectual/emotional rut of thinking everyone on earth is a piece of shit deep down. Nice moments like that make me forget that for a minute.

[doomglobe]

Home fries should taste like hot slugs. Everyone knows that.

[pmcd9]

Home fries should taste like hot slugs. Everyone knows that.

Are you telling us you know how Mrs. John Lithgow feels?

[doomglobe]

I usually cook up 5 or ten pounds of home fries when I throw a party, late at night. People are hammered and then someone smells them cooking and by the time they find me to tell me how good it smells it is like the perfect time to take them out. I put em in a giant bowl with a couple smaller bowls of mayo or ketchup nearby, and they just disappear so damn fast. It's like that hour when drunk folks ought to be heading out for 3am pizza or ruining my bathroom, but some good hot potato just solves that and people can get in their cars and drunk drivetake a cab home. I totally derived my recipe from Onstad's cookbook.