What do you get when you roll potato slices through starch, fry them, and then freeze?  Your grocers frozen fries!  Thought you were doing good when you bought a frozen bag of fries, so you can bake them.  Don’t be fooled, many times, they pre-fry these fries, so although you are baking them, they’ve already been soaked in grease.  Check your labels.  You don’t need a manufacturing plant to cut potatoes for you.  Tonight we cut up our own.  This was less work than I anticipated. We had one of those fry slicer that cut my potatoes into nice thin strips. I soaked the fries till dinner, coated with olive oil and baked with a little salt.  Quicker than a fast food trip.

To make them a little more gourmet, I wanted to add some parmesan cheese. I’m really into cheese right now, but who can afford the good stuff?  A brick of parmesan that you shred yourself was 17.99 per pound at my CHEAP grocery store!  My goodness, my kids sneakers don’t even cost that much! 

I don’t know if I’ll ever buy frozen fries again. The kids ate them up, they were easy, and although frozen potato products can get dirt cheap, I still think it’s cheaper and tastier to make the real thing.  If you are super busy, cut the potatoes up in the morning, keep in a bowl full of water in your fridge all day, then you just have to bake prior to eating.  They did take a good 20 minutes at 450 per side! So baking took a while.