How Do You Make Excellent Homemade Cheese Fries?
Homemade cheese fries are true comfort food, and you don’t need to leave your house to enjoy them. There are several easy methods! • First you have to decide whether you want to save calories by oven-baking the potatoes, or whether you will fry them in a skillet or deep fryer. • To oven-bake the potatoes: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Farenheit. Slice about a pound of russet or white Idaho potatoes lengthwise into half-inch slices. Lay the slices out on a cutting board, stack a few at a time and cut again lengthwise, so that they are long square fries like you get at a restaurants. Dry with a paper towel and brush all sides of the potatoes with a bit of oil -peanut, sunflower, safflower, olive or just plain vegetable oil. Bake in oven, turning occasionally, about 25 minutes or until a fork pierces them easily. (If you leave the skins on the potatoes they will be more nutritious. If you don’t like the look of the skins on the french fries, you can peel them first) • To fry the potatoe
