Easy things you suck at doing

[Capn Flukie]

Home fries!

 

[RoJoHen]

Home fries!

This.

I like 'em slightly burned.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ So you like to keep the home fries burning?

 

[trampledamage]

*groan*

 

[JustKate]

:: groan :: but also

 

[Argus Skyhawk]

As long as this has turned into a how-to-cook potatoes thread, I just want to point out that one of the world's most heavenly dishes is made of chopped up potatoes scrambled with chorizo (a Mexican sausage).

[Homer Simpson]Mmmm. Chorizo con papas.[/Homer Simpson]

But really, I like almost anything that has potatoes in it. A potato may not have much flavor by itself, but I suspect it is the world's greatest ingredient.

Another easy thing I don't do well: taking short showers. For me, fifteen minutes is a short shower.

 

[Holdfast]

I know you can boil potatoes to make other things, but surely nobody just eats a boiled potato!

Of course you can, esp. new potatoes like Jersey Royals.

 

[Jadzia]

Alongside various other chopped and boiled vegetables, makes the bulk of an English sunday dinner.

 

[Holdfast]

^ Good God woman, it's not a sunday lunch without roast potatoes.

 

[trampledamage]

^ Good God woman, it's not a sunday lunch without roast potatoes.

And yorkshire puddings

 

[RoJoHen]

^ Good God woman, it's not a sunday lunch without roast potatoes.

And yorkshire puddings

I hate being an American sometimes. I have no idea what you two are talking about.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

If it's not actual pudding, as US eaters would understand the term, then I don't wanna know from it...

 

[RoJoHen]

Doesn't it have, like, bread in it?

 

[Alidar Jarok]

Alongside various other chopped and boiled vegetables, makes the bulk of an English sunday dinner.

And that's why British food enjoys such a high reputation around the world. How could you possibly go wrong with boiled vegetables as a staple of one's meal?

 

[RoJoHen]

Since this is apparently the potato thread now, somebody should also teach me how to make really good mashed potatoes. I am such a lazy cook that I usually just make instant mashed potatoes.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

Yuck, instant mashed potatoes. I'd rather eat British food

 

[RoJoHen]

I make 'em with a lot of butter and a lot of milk, and then I drown them in gravy. You can't even tell.

 

[Jadzia]

Since this is apparently the potato thread now, somebody should also teach me how to make really good mashed potatoes. I am such a lazy cook that I usually just make instant mashed potatoes.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKt-KR1TsRg[/yt]

 

[RoJoHen]

Wow.

 

[JustKate]

Instant mashed potatoes are an abomination. Particularly since real ones aren't very difficult to make.

I'm on a deadline right now, RoJoHen, but once I live through it, I'll check back here and if somebody hasn't told you how to make mashed potatoes that aren't an abomination, I will. I will make it my mission in life - well, my mission in the 15 minutes or so that it takes me to tell you how to make decent mashed potatoes - to help you eradicate fake potatoes from your dinner table. I feel enobled just thinking about it.

Yorkshire pudding is nothing like any sort of American pudding. No, there's no bread in it. It's really more of a popover, though I have this feeling that telling some of you that won't tell you much...but darn it, I still have that deadline, so rather than explain it to you, let me just send you here: http://britishfood.about.com/od/regionalenglishrecipes/r/yorkspuds.htm

I've never made it, but I've eaten it, and it's very good. But not as good as mashed potatoes, IMO - or roast potatoes, for that matter.

I have absolutely no idea why it's called a "pudding." I know that in British English, pudding can mean several different things, some of which are drastically different from the AmE concept of the word, but Yorkshire pudding seems to stretch even the BrE definition of "pudding" past the breaking point.