BEST EVER FRENCH FRIES

There is already a recipe for French fries on this site, and that method is very good.  But this recipe is the GREATEST OF ALL TIME.  I encourage you to look at the same recipe on Recipetineats.com which has a very good description of how to do this.  I absolutely agree with the writer on that site that SAFETY is a huge consideration in making these fries.  Any time you are working with hot oil in large quantities, the potential for a grease fire has to be accounted for.  And if you are sipping wine and watching a movie while you are preparing a leisurely weekend dinner, there is even more opportunity for forgetting that big pot of hot oil bubbling on your stove.  Be careful!  As a rule, once I start heating oil, I set my timer on my Iphone so that it alerts me every 3 to 5 minutes.  The alarm reminds me to check the oil!  Otherwise, I might get caught up in watching Nicole Kidman in “The Perfect Couple,” on Netflix and forget what I’m doing.

These fries were simply amazing.  It took half a day to execute this method but it was so worth it.  Now, this is probably not the sort of thing I could do with my movie-watching friend who demands that I sit down and watch the movie (as opposed to going back and forth to the kitchen to check on whatever I am cooking).  Unfortunately, that’s why a particular person doesn’t get many dinner invitations any more.  I LOVE to cook and going back and forth between the kitchen and the big screen in the living room is WHAT I DO.

By the way, notice the Suzani on last night’s dinner table.  I have lots of these textiles from Uzbekistan that I have ordered from Ebay.  The modern ones are machine embroidered and they are absolutely beautiful.  Often, they arrive by mail wrapped in muslin and sealed with wax!  If you buy older ones from Ebay, they may need to be dry cleaned but I have many brand new ones.  I use them on the table, on the bed, as curtains, and even shower curtains.  According to Wikipedia:

Suzani is a type of embroidered and decorative tribal textile made in Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan and other Central Asian countries. Suzani is from the Persian سوزن Suzan which means needle. The art of making such textiles in Iran is called سوزن‌دوزی Suzandozi (needlework). Suzanis are rather delicate and extremely few examples survive from before the late 18th and early 19th centuries. They belong, however, to a very ancient tradition. In the early 15th century, Ruy Gonzáles de Clavijo, the Castilian ambassador to the court of Timur (Tamerlane), left detailed descriptions of embroideries that were probably forerunners of the suzani.

Suzanis were traditionally made by Central Asian brides as part of their dowry, and were presented to the groom on the wedding day.