Take some red potatoes like Desire
Add some Salad Blue potatoes
And mix them with some white ones
And what do you get?
A Union Jack Flag of course 🙂
Homegrown potatoes and homemade (twice fried) chips with a fried egg on top. Perfect winter fuel !
Post Script – we made the flag earlier in the year, but we are still munching on Flag chips 🙂
What are twice fried potatoes? They look delicious! Recipe? 😉
~ Lynda
Hi Lynda, they are basically fried once for about 5 minutes and then taken out of the oil and rested and then fried again. Its meant to make them even crispier and fluffier
Fluffier and crispier? I’m there!!! Thanks ~ Lynda 😉
you’re welcome Lynda !
Really cool post, Promenade Plantings! I love the way your fried veggies look! Twice fried tastes so much better than plain fried. And they are home grown, makes me more happy 😀
Hi there and thanks 🙂 they were delicious!
Great photos! Love the flag!
A big kid at heart, I love playing with my food 🙂
I think you had a lovely meal…I like twice fried so much better. I think that is the secret to the great fries you get in Belgium.
I think it is Karen, a littl ebit more effort and lots of taste!
I want some! These look delicious.
They certainly were 🙂
That is hilarious, you must have been having a great day, I love twice fried, but i get john to deep fry them outside on the verandah because i hate that twice fried SMELL! c
Ha, yes we did, but I have to say that it was my partners idea!
I know what you mean about the smell of oil….. it can really linger!
Twice-fried potatoes seems to be the “in thing” for potatoes. I’ve resisted the urge, not because I don’t like them but just the opposite. Once that pot of oil heats up, there’s no stopping me. There are potatoes, calamari, chicken, mushrooms, fish, you name it, to be fried. I know: I’m weak.
John, you weak? Nooooo!!
Mind you I know what you mean about frying, why is it that food tastes sooooooo good when it’s been fried?!
Looks delicious…I love the Union Jack flag. How long did it take you to double fry them all?
Thanks, it was a giggle to make it. You know I don’t know how long it all takes, I’ll have to make them again (shame, shame!!) and double check exactly what I do.
I haven’t had home-made chips in ages… but I have never thought about twice-frying them! I must try it next time I fry potatoes. And also take several different varieties to have more fun 🙂
Your Union Jack looks perfect. I envy your patience 🙂
Hi Sissi, and thank you, to be honest with both of us making it, it didn’t take very long, but we had such a laugh doing it!
I don’t often have homemade chips either, only when I grow these particular potatoes, and as it wasn’t a bumper crop for me this year we’ll only have a few meals with them.
Ha, no way am I doing that with the American flag, too many stars. I love that photo, too funny! The flag chips look delicious.
Ha ha, you’d have to be an expert at shaping and cutting veggies like they do in Thai restaurants 🙂
Well, I would say that you are giving Martha Stewart a run for her money! I love it–vegetable flags. To think the most original flag food I ever made was a cake. You have given me a whole new design idea for cooking–perfect for a dietitian like me:)
Hi Nanacy and I’m pleased you like my efforts at humour! It was a giggle to put together.
And now I’m really curious to see what you will come up with 🙂
fabulous potatoes and flag and it all sounds delicious … i have not seen blue potatoes here but will look now!
Hi and thanks for the compliment, the blue potatoes make VERY tasty chips. And they are great to make for young kids or even big kids like us 🙂
Cute and very tasty looking..wish I live closer so I could pop over and eat some!
Thanks Stacey, now that would be fun!
Look at all those homegrown treasures! It’s posts like this that keep us persevering in our attempts to grow potatoes in the backyard! Thank you! 🙂
Every year I say to myself I won’t grow so many potatoes, they take up too much room etc, and then I taste a few and I’m hooked again!
I love that flag and such pretty potatoes.
Thanks, I’m wondering what flag I’ll do next 🙂