So I'm from the South, and being from the South means that you grow up with Waffle House EVERYWHERE. Somehow I managed to avoid it until I started leading backpacking trips in college. There's something amazing about walking into a Waffle House after being in the woods for days and days and days, smelling like a dead skunk, and looking like a beaver who just fought a mountain lion and somehow survived, and being served a cup of black coffee and a plate of hash browns. It is heaven. And the Waffle House ladies don't bat an eye. In the city I get my fix at the Majestic Diner whenever I'm out dancing or drinking or meandering around town at three in the morning. Hash browns are my intellectual soul food. Some of the best conversations I've had occurred over a plate of hash browns and a mug of coffee. Hash browns make my world go 'round.
I love hash browns. I think potatoes are God's gift to mankind (along with chocolate, Beligian beer, and everything bagels), and skillet cooked potatoes with onions and ketchup is even better. This is my comfort food. And my poor student food. Some people have Ramen; I have hashbrowns.
All that said, there's no real recipe to an amazing plate of spuds. Take an onion and a couple of potatoes. Slice them up. Throw them in a pan with several tablespoons of oil (amount depends on how much you're making), cook for 20-25 minutes. Serve with ketchup. If you want to mix in meat, cheese, mushrooms, peppers, etc., add it at the end with five minutes or so to go.All you have to do now is eat them. Relish the potatoes, sauteed to a tender yet crisp skinned perfection. Drink a cup of black coffee, smoke a cigarette, talk about Martin Heidegger. You won't regret it.
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heidegger, smoking, admonissions of vegan cheating... I want to have brunch with you. With enough hashbrowns to drown all worldly cares in potatoe-y crispy goodliness, black coffee at the ready and all that. Just sayin, is all. :D
i with the above poster. this is an awesome damn entry.
love the vegan cheating. i was a vegetarian for ten years. i was actually a very good vegetarian who never ever once thought about meat. but finally, after cooking in professional kitchens, and having to taste dishes going out i reverted to the dark, meateating side of things. i still try to stick to a mainly vegetarian diet, but like you, if it is expensive enough a place, i will allow myself to splurge.
you are a captivating writer. i will be back!
my boyfriend and i drove from virginia to arizona last year and we had our share of wafflehouse hashbrowns.
my favourite way to make them at home is with chopped onions and finely julienned carrots. so yum. also love the addition of sweet potato or swede. okay let me stop rambling. but i love this. it cannot be beat as a 2 am drunk food.
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