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A Rant re: Home Fries - General Chowhounding Topics - Chowhound I have had home fries with onion, and with green pepper, and with a little chopped up bacon, and loved them all because of the basic ingredient: leftover boiled potatoes, sliced up into chunks, and fried in a griddle or pan with lots of butter until they get a beautiful crust. While I have more tolerance than you, apparently, for crunchy hash browns, I spent the better part of thirty years in Nashville trying to find a decent fried potato that (a) came in chunks or slices, and (b) was fried to a fairly crisp exterior and a meltingly soft interior. I was so bereft that I actually became fond of the "cottage fries" at one cafe simply because they were made from thin slices of fresh potato and cooked on a grill until they were almost edible. www.chowhound.com /topics/342605   (975 words)

Home fries spice up a special brunch - Food - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) Serve the fries with scrambled eggs, salsa and a bowl of watermelon chunks that have been soaked in lime juice and splashed with tequila. Homemade home fries are actually straightforward, and the Mexican accouterments are a great opportunity to experiment with team cooking with your children. Home fries reheat beautifully, either in a hot, lightly oiled frying pan or spread on a tray in a 350-degree oven. washingtontimes.com /food/20050614-082505-5900r.htm   (343 words)

[No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) Home Fries is an unlikely combination of homespun romance and fl comedy. Home Fries is undeniably quirky, but when I left the theater, I felt good inside. Home Fries is rated PG-13 for language and mild violence. home.ptd.net /~chandler/homefry.htm   (678 words)

Parent Previews: Home Fries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) She is about to become a pawn in an intricate plot when the adulterous father of her almost-born baby (he originally told her he wasn't married) pulls up to the drive-through and tells her that he's confessed the situation to his wife. Home Fries isn't recommended for family viewing, but if you do have family members that see the movie, you may want to talk to them about it. Home Fries has many examples of people exhibiting anger in dangerous and exaggerated ways. movies.go.com /parentpreviews/review?rid=34   (429 words)

Review: Home Fries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) That's the case with Home Fries, a half-baked romantic comedy starring a red-haired Barrymore (her third hair color in three films) as Sally, a pregnant young Texan who falls for the stepson of the married man who fathered her unborn child. Home Fries is marred by two significant flaws, neither of which has anything to do with the premise, which is not inherently unpromising. In the end, Home Fries is a fast-food type of movie - it looks good in the commercials and is easy to sit through, but it doesn't offer much in the way of satisfaction, and is prone to lead to the cinematic equivalent of indigestion afterwards. www.daveray.com /movies/h/home_fries.html   (796 words)

Home Fries If the only thing you knew about Home Fries is what you'd seen on its preview trailers, then you'd probably expect it to be one of those sweet, small-town romantic comedies with a slightly Southern bent. Sometimes funny but sometimes overly-sinister, Home Fries is a film that attempts to walk a very fine line between "dark" and "comedy," and does so with mixed success. The discrepancy between the Home Fries presented in its preview trailers (a folksy, feel-good comedy) and the true Home Fries we see in theaters (a dark, sinister comedy) should be a warning to all viewers. www.fuzzydog.com /zzhomefries.htm   (513 words)

CNN - Review: 'Home Fries' needs spice - November 30 (CNN) -- At its core, "Home Fries" is a fractured love story between Drew Barrymore's character, Sally, and a young man named Dorian, played by her real-life boyfriend Luke Wilson. They both live in the middle of "Nowhere USA," where she works at the local Burger-Matic and is dating a married man. Dorian's apparently between ambitions and girlfriends. "Home Fries" is a quirky, dark comedy that isn't quite as dark or quite as quirky as it wants to be, or should be. www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/Movies/9811/30/review.homefries   (566 words)

`Home Fries' Packed With Empty Calories / Barrymore and Wilson can't save pointless story In ``Home Fries,'' she plays Sally, who's eight months pregnant and working the drive-up window at a hamburger joint. ``Home Fries'' is one of those comedies in which almost everything good about it is extraneous. It tries to split the difference between fl comedy, which threatens to cast the romance in an absurd light, and drama, which threatens to expose the murderous scheming of the family to a seriousness the story can't sustain. www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/1998/11/25/DD80688.DTL&type=printable   (308 words)

SPLICEDwire: "Home Fries" review But "Home Fries" begins to unravel in the very first scene when it's revealed that the baby's father is Wilson's recently-deceased stepfather. Why was Barrymore having an affair with a plump, balding, 50-year-old, married man? This question is never even addressed, and any 20-something, red-blooded American male will tell you that Drew Barrymore would have had her pick of beaux in the movie's backwater military town. "Home Fries" seems to be the victim of script doctor malpractice. www.splicedonline.com /98reviews/homefries.html   (366 words)

Order of "Home Fries" is satisfying, despite lingering indigestion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) Although "Home Fries" uncomfortably stretches its comic premise to the limits, it is a refreshing venture away from predictable situation comedies, and is funny enough to justify its bold leaps into oddness. "Home Fries" is certainly a lot darker than the previews of the film let on. "Home Fries" somehow manages to set up this complicated situation fairly rapidly, giving the film plenty of room and time to take the story through more twists than I’ve ever witnessed in an hour and a half film. web.nmsu.edu /~jearley/fries.html   (490 words)

Salon Entertainment | Hot buns in the oven "Home Fries" is certainly the only comedy ever to have its sweethearts fall for each other during a Lamaze class. "Home Fries" belongs to a flaky strain of American comedies, what might be called backwoods screwball. But a movie comedy that manages to be consistently funny without becoming assaultive, and that remains consistently sweet-tempered even at its most macabre (like when Angus is borrowing a corpse's suit to get his brother presentable for their stepfather's wake), isn't so common that we can refuse this one's modest pleasures. archive.salon.com /ent/movies/reviews/1998/11/25reviewb.html   (1046 words)

identity theory | the narrative thread - barbara haber   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) She is the author of From Hardtack to Home Fries: An Uncommon History of American Cooks and Meals, and has also co-authored the chapter on Culinary History in the Cambridge World History of Food. But home cooking and writing about home cooking — which is what the food pages do — is a womanish occupation. In order for them to produce a cookbook that was about daily cooking for the home, to be taken seriously, they had to make fun of women and establish their credentials as superior, in a spoofing, in this tongue-in-cheek way. www.identitytheory.com /people/birnbaum42.html   (5276 words)

Home Fries | Movie Review | Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum is a film critic for EW In describing "Home Fries" as an "off-center romantic comedy," the press release for this determinedly quirky caper inadvertently clarifies what's enervating about it. Then again, Gilligan wrote an early draft of "Fries" a decade ago -- long before he made his name as a coexecutive producer of "The X-Files." And every now and then, through the uniformly distributed wackiness (directed by Dean Parisot in his feature debut), a wisp of atmospheric "X"-ish humor escapes the symmetry. In one outlandish scene, little burger-eating kids are held hostage by a shotgun-waving drunk who turns out to be Sally's father; in another, the brothers pilfer the jacket off a stiff in a funeral home. www.ew.com /ew/article/0,,63807,00.html   (486 words)

'Home Fries': Laughs, a Murder By Fright very time a movie like "Home Fries" appears, you can sense Hollywood's eagerness for a smart screwball comedy that hits the commercial bull's-eye and proves that there really is a place for sophisticated humor in a market dominated by the dumbed-down capers of the Farrelly brothers, Jim Carrey and Adam Sandler. The first feature film directed by Dean Parisot (from a screenplay by Vince Gilligan), "Home Fries" belongs to the same comic genre as "Clay Pigeons," another intelligent but not terribly funny dark comedy that opened in September and quickly disappeared. Most of the humor of "Home Fries" comes from the collision of caricatures who suggest refugees from "Tobacco Road" reinvented for a 1990's version of the classic 70's sitcom "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman." The two young pilots are revealed to be nursing a fierce sibling rivalry that eventually erupts into another mad helicopter chase. partners.nytimes.com /library/film/112598fries-film-review.html   (511 words)

Home Fries on DVD reviewed on AudioRevolution.com If you are tired of predictable, formulaic romantic comedies but are still in the mood for some variation of the boy-meets-girl theme with whimsical thriller underpinnings, give ‘Home Fries’ a try. One of the good things about ‘Home Fries’ overall is that it’s tough to describe without blowing some of the plot surprises right off the bat. Suffice to say that Sally Jackson (Drew Barrymore), a resident of a small Texas town, is all set for life as a young, unwed mother. www.audiorevolution.com /dvd/revs/homefries.shtml   (538 words)

Maine, Apr 00 I ask her what it’s like to return to her family’s home, where she and her 2 sisters grew up, and she tells me it’s bittersweet because she was supposed to return here with Sid and enjoy their "end of career" and retirement years together. The home was set at the top of a wooded hill, with high art glass windows at the back, and floor-to-ceiling windows open to forest as it tumbled down the slopes. We arrived at Shirley and Dick’s around 4:00, and were immediately enthralled by their lovely, open-spaced home, with full views of the cove from every window, and a wide deck that lined the entire front of the house. www.worldwidewachs.com /Maine.htm   (10228 words)

HOME FRIES O'Hara (the mother in the "Home Alone" flicks) appropriately plays her wacked out mother character with outrageous zeal, while Busey ("Contact" "The Frighteners") -- yes, Gary's near look alike son -- is firmly establishing himself as cinema's new leading man for playing oddball characters. Listless, and never certain what genre in which in wants to fall, "Home Fries" lacks the spark or creativity to succeed no matter how one looks at it. Even so, and should you still be concerned about the film's appropriateness for you or anyone in your home, we suggest that you take a closer look at what's been listed. www.screenit.com /movies/1998/home_fries.html   (2208 words)

Home Fries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) As Home Fries begins, Henry (Robin Williams) stops by the drive-in at Burger-Matic and speaks to Sally (Drew Barrymore), who is eight months pregnant with Henry's illegitimate child. On his way home, Henry is suddenly intercepted by a fl helicopter that descends from the sky, chases him, and frightens him so much that he dies of a heart attack. It's tough to say whether or not Home Fries is entirely successful, since I often wasn't sure whether it was supposed to be funny or just plain weird. members.aol.com /KTPattersn/homefries.html   (538 words)

Home Fries Home Fries stars Drew Barrymore (Ever After) as a pregnant young woman whose child becomes fatherless when the daddy turns up dead in a field after a heart attack. But what is strange is that he is literally scared to death by his own two stepsons flying a National Guard attack helicopter. Home Fries is a really strange romantic comedy from the Warner Brother's Studio and is directed by Dean Parisot, I know I've never heard of him either. www.about-movies.com /movies/1998/homefries.htm   (359 words)

B-Red Potato Home Fries: The Produce Corner-Weekdays during Eyewitness News at Noon B-Red potatoes are the small red skinned potatoes that are generally 2" in diameter or smaller. They are usually served whole either boiled or roasted; however, their flavor is exceptional and they make outstanding home fries. Add a small amount of water or margarine if the home fries become too dry. www.wchstv.com /producecorner/b-red_potato_home_.html   (164 words)

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Roadfood.com Forums - Not Home Fries....HASHBROWNS!!! At Mortons Steakhouse the hash browns are of the shredded variety, while at the Palm, you will get them more like home fries, albeit in smaller chunks, but never shredded. Now, I see hash browns shredded and diced, and then there are country or cottage fries, which are diced or thinly-sliced potatoes. Why is it that whenever I try to make hashbrowns at home (the shredded variety) they never turn out like I want/expect them to. www.roadfood.com /Forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4231   (749 words)

How to Make Home Fries | eHow.com A classic with a nice plate of scrambled eggs, home fries satisfy that morning empty feeling - in a big way. Home fries - For a Czechoslovakian flare, add one heaping teaspoon of sweet paprika and one small clove of garlic halfway through the cooking time. Bacon drippings and cast iron - Being a home fries nut for years, I have found that using bacon drippings instead of oil adds to the flavor, and using a cast iron skillet will insure a crisp finish to the potatoes. www.ehow.com /how_13822_make-home-fries.html   (508 words)

Emerilized Western Omelet with Home Fries Recipe: Recipes: Food Network Sprinkle the remaining tablespoon of cheese and green onions over the top and serve with Home Fries. Fry the bacon on the griddle until brown and crisp, about 6 minutes, turning frequently. Add the onions and bell peppers to the griddle and cook in the remaining fat, stirring, until soft, about 4 minutes. www.foodnetwork.com /food/recipes/recipe/0,1977,FOOD_9936_18068,00.html   (297 words)

Home Fries Recipe This recipe was just as delicious using a salt sub vs. regular salt and a small amount of olive oil vs. veg oil. I have made fries like this before but not the low sodium way til today. It was great!but as usual DH had to put his salt on his cause he is a salt person. www.recipezaar.com /16210   (265 words)

Who Wants Seconds?: EOMEOTE#4: Scrambled Eggs, Pork Chipolatas, Home Fries & (of course) Toast Organic pork sausages, home fries made from fingerlings and onions with sea salt and freshly ground pepper, scrambled eggs with cream and fresh thyme, and olive oil bread toasted and spread with butter. Now, fried or hardboiled with the other accompaniments would be great. many of the women they came home with were (are) country girls, so some of the heartier fare--sausages, pickles, cheeses, breads--has become supermarket staples. whowantsseconds.typepad.com /who_wants_seconds/2005/03/eomeote4_scramb.html   (1179 words)

Home Fries (1998): Reviews Written by Vince Gilligan and directed by newcomer Dean Parisot, Home Fries is far too cute and eager to please, but Barrymore and Wilson are charming, and O'Hara is a blast. Overloaded with oddities but a bit short on horse sense, this is one of those stubbornly defiant, attitude-driven movies that's so busy scrambling genres, breaking rules, and dashing expectations on the road to becoming art that it slips off into the ditch. Veering wildly from macabre Southern Gothic to quirky small-town romance, Home Fries is too busy cross-pollinating genres to bother with consistent behavior and tone. www.metacritic.com /video/titles/homefries   (558 words)

Home Fries Movie Luke Wilson, who is one of the best looking men on the planet, portrays Dorian, an equally kind and lovable character who has to deal with a crazy mother & brother, while falling in love with Sally. "Home Fries" is a great movie about getting over the hurdles of life and fighting to be with the one you love. Home Fries is a great movie about a young women, Sally, played by Drew Barrymore, who is just trying to find a father for her unborn baby. www.movie-pages.com /movie/home-fries/6305310327   (595 words)

Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Home Fries at Epinions.com He offers to drive her home and she turns him down by so eloquently replying "You just wanna poke dents in my babys' head". Surely the man knew this....I mean, hey, this was in a rural community of approximately 50 and 8/9ths, where everybody knew everybody else. The basic premise of Home Fries is supposed to be about a woman who is looking for revenge. www.epinions.com /content_125633793668   (879 words)

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