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OP probably high when writing the post
Wait, we're supposed to restrain ourselves??
I remember fresh bread and butter. Yum.
Not anymore though because my body decided it makes sense to attack itself when I eat the tiniest particle of gluten. Celiac disease. Ugh.
Potatoes and butter.
I'd probably pick bread as my favorite food, but at one point doc had me try going gluten free to rule out some possibilities. No gluten issue, but it really made me value a nice potato! Potato is just underground bread.
Yes but don't forget the salt there.
Syracuse, New York is nicknamed Salt City, as it was a huge commercial salt producer for many years. There is a dish called Syracuse Salt Potatoes which boils the potatoes in a very saturated brine, as salt was in no short supply.
The skin on the small potatoes keeps too much of the salt from being absorbed, and the centers get such a creamy texture while as the water evaporated off the skins from residual heat, it leaves a beautiful powdered salt coating all over the outside. Then cover or dip (I like to dip so the salt doesn't run off) in melted butter and enjoy! Must be tasted to be believed.

Very similar to papas arrugadas, a traditional dish in the Canary Islands.
Yum, those with that mojo sauce and a nice piece of fish does sound really good!
Indeed so, but I think their true genius is as a tapa. They pair well with lager on a sunny day (which you'll obviously be drinking a lot more of, because of the salt), and they beat the hell out of a packet of crisps.
Oh I want to try it out but I'm kind of scare by any salt recipe from the new world. It seems that USA' and Canada's standard size of cristal salt is very diffdrent from the french one, living many of my dishes from there way over salted. I guess if we're talking about melted salt and brine saturation it could be fine but I'm still scared.
Can I use any potatoes or do I need something starchy/tender/...?
Oh wow, I never even considered the salt itself would be an issue. It looks like you would likely have coarse grey salt, gros sel, as your large grain salt? I use Kosher or coarse sea salt, which from what I can find, is fairly the same volumetrically, but things also said grey salt is denser with actual salt. The saltwater is pretty much a saturated solution or close to it, so I don't know if you could actually oversalt the water. The weight ratios I found have around 1 lb salt per 4 lb potatoes.
For the potatoes themselves, we have little bags of boiling potatoes, either white, red, or a mix or red, white, and purple. They have thin skins and hold up well for boiling. Looking up French styles, la Charlotte, Ratte, l'Amandine, Belle de Fontenay, Annabelle, Franceline, Nicola, Roseval, and Chérie all seem likely useable. Ours are around the size of a golf or ping pong ball. All yours seem more finger shaped so I can't tell exactly how large they are.
Maybe you can find a French recipe for the papas arrugadas the other commentor mentioned to get a version with things you can buy more easily. Other than the sauce, the idea seems the same.
Oh... So I should use some gros sel whenever kosher salt is mention. That changes many thing. I probably try it (one day) and keep you updated but I feel like many times a recipe seems straighforwars it is because we make a lot of assumtions that don't necessary match another culture well.
I've tried reading a few things now, and I think that is going to be your best starting point. I can only get so much without knowing the French words, since I'm sure the detail of the translation is much more important when talking about something as specific as tiny structures and textures.
It sounds like kosher salt is more flakey, while gros sel is cubic, but I'm thinking that they are not fine salts and will leave more air pockets when measuring by volume should keep you closest. Grey salt from the sea is going to have some taste that a white salt from a mine isn't, but if it's just being used 90% for whatever osmosis trick it is doing to potatoes, that probably isn't going to make a huge difference.
My understanding is all recipes in English (or at least from America) are written with kosher salt in mind. Salt that would go in a shaker is much too fine and will make food much saltier than intended, it's probably twice as much salt.
It's easy to slip one's mind trying to share something like this, that seems like it would be the most mundane recipe, as probably for both of us, salt and potatoes are daily staples we don't pay much mind to, we just know what to use.
I love potatoes. I used to talk down on them too. Not anymore. Meat and potatoes, or beans and potatoes whatever you want.
You probably know this stuff better than me since you're coeliac, but just in case you don't: try the Loopy Whisk's bread recipes. I have a couple of coeliac family members and these are by far the best results I've gotten for making gluten free bread for them
As someone who was diagnosed at 43, I relate so much to this comment. Most things, buttered toast included, aren't worth the weeks of pain. Although, I have seriously considered a Dick's Deluxe burger on a couple of occasions.
Nothing like eating Dicks to make the pain stop.
Buttered toast with some garlic powder was one of my go-to "I'm broke as hell, but at least this is tasty" foods.
Hmm.. I wonder how onion powder would be. Onion is my favorite bagel.
TF I'm in my 40s and when I make bread with dinner it's basically the same thing with some kind of fancy bread. Olive loaf is calling my name.
Carb loading
My daughter has just discovered the joys of fresh baguette with butter. It's all she wants all day long
This is mainly why i don't buy bread loafs anymore. I will make 4 or 6 slices of toast and wonder why i'm such a fatass.
Instead of putting it on toast, make a grilled PB&J. Butter it and cook it in a skillet just like a grilled cheese.
but i like the jam to be cold
Yes, but only if I squeeze a bit of honey on top too. Honey toast is where it’s at.
On of last memories of my father when he had cancer was eating an entire loaf of toast with him. We just kept laughing and making more until there was no more bread on the house
Come to France and try toasted baguette with salted butter, it won't be a phase.
Butter that toast. Make super rich hot chocolate. Use some half & half in it, even. Dip that buttery toast in the hot chocolate.
that sounds wonderful but coffee instead of cocoa (i eat chocolate twice a year and it must be the fanciest. i am not high maintenance)
I have never tried it with coffee. I bet of it were a sweeter bread, it would be fantastic. But we are slowly circling back to dipping donuts in coffee.
I'm thinking a dark roast in a Moka pot. Just some strong, good, bitter coffee. It reminds me of dark chocolate. Normally, I would just drink it black. But thinking of dipping buttered toast in it, I think maybe a sweet cream might be nice in it.
Sometimes I like toasted sandwiches instead of grilled. Toasted bread is just 🤌.
When I lived at my dad's a long time ago now he got furious at me for eating straight slices of bread with butter on them instead of making a sandwich.
I loved that shit and I'm sure I still would but that experience kinda killed it for me.
Remeinded me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq0JZviQU9o
Wait till you try different breads. Raisin bread, rye, rye with caraway seeds OMG.
Even just butter melting on warm fresh bread. I love my breadmaker for that, it's so simple, cheap, and easy. Throw the ingredients in (flour, salt, yeast, sugar, water and margarine) and walk away. 3 hours later you're scarfing it down while the whole house smells like freshly baked bread.
Usually when I bake bread, I have to remind myself that there are more than 30 seconds in a week and this has to last.
I only have to resist that when I bake my own bread. Which I resist by being lazy and not making bread since I want it NOW and not 4 to 6 hours from now after working the dough and letting it rise.
Hey Peter Frampton, do you like toast too? Yes, as do I. It is warm and crunchy. And the perfect place for jelly to lay.
Let me tell you all about a little thing called buttered toast dipped in hot coffee. Hell of a breakfast.
If you're a baller like me, you can also put avocado on it.
Once again the lack of the word "tartine" and a proper translation for "brioche au pur tartinée de beurre" shows what is missing in English speaking cultures.
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