A large Idaho potato is peeled and sliced by mandolin into a bowl of cold water. Dried thoroughly.
Shallow fried in 325℉ until the bubbles stop. This slightly lower temperature allow the chips to dehydrate before turning brown. The bubbles stop just as the chips begin to turn brown.
The paper towel layers are moved to the top for each new batch.
Sea salt, garlic powder, hot chile powder. I didn't use it but nutritional yeast will add a cheese-like flavor.
2 comments:
So my question is this: are you eating less, cooking less, or getting burnt out on posting?
Hi, Unknown Person.
Still cook all my own meals and photographing is fairly habitualized. And not burned out at all. I am eating less. And I'm thinking up new combinations less. The things I've been making are exceedingly simple and I've already showed them a hundred times. There is another blog that I keep up with another person who's sort of semi-retired for awhile that's taken a lot of my online attention from this and two other blogs of specialized interest. (There are 8 blogs for various things and they're all suffered a bit.)
Know what's weird, though?
I chide myself for not bothering to post the simple repetitive things because looking at stats for this blog show that I have no judgement whatsoever about what others find interesting. A bowl of cereal, for example. Those dumb little no-effort things get more attention than they deserve. I'm constantly baffled. And from places I'd never expect, faraway places like Abu Dhabi. And I'm like, what, haven't you seen cornflakes and blueberries? Then I'll come up with something strange and unique and delicious, something that amazes me, and that gets no attention at all.
I just now bought one of those electric pressure pots that you see advertised everywhere and cooked a whole chicken right off and the next day kielbasa to see how it works. But I didn't show that because it was so mundane and repetitive of immediate things. I had just cooked a whole chicken and I had just cooked kielbasa. Those two things were very good, by the way, maybe I should have shown them.
Speaking of stats, I don't understand those either. They get surprisingly high for a long time and then dip distressingly low and stay low. A drop to 1/10 from the high. Then, just three days ago, they rose again to half the maximum high staying steady since then. Like it's a seasonal thing, or something. But when I look behind them, the rise is not due to latest posts. They're spread out through the whole 10 years and nothing individual has spiked. I honestly have no comprehension of what people are looking at. Blogger shows only the highest ten posts, and those are steady. So the analytics are not useful in showing what people are reading from way back when, just that overall views have spiked and keep spiking.
I could die tomorrow and this blog will keep showing the same pattern of seasonal highs and lows and irregularities.
You just gave me an idea to post about things that I didn't make. Like a deplorable cookbook I just read. And comparison between two types of pressure pots. And food-related Netflix shows that are unexpectedly good. You know, things that affect one's thinking about cooking.
Post a Comment