Potato Wedges

Hello from Reuben

I had a friend to play today and got him to help me make our lunch. His name is Ethan, which confuses our smallest brother Joel as that's the name of our oldest brother too!

Anyway, Mattie made chicken nuggets (coming up in a later post) and so we made homemade chips, well potato wedges really, to go with them.

They are very easy peasy and lemon squeezy (Not sure lemon would taste nice come to think about it!)


Ingredients (What they are made from)

We used 5 potatoes (1 medium potato per person on average)
2 teaspoons of salt
4 tablespoons of cooking oil


You will also need, a saucepan, water, a knife and a roasting tray


Method

Oven on to gas 7

1  Wash the potatoes

2  Very carefully chop them in half

    And then into wedge shapes like this

Mum made me underline the very carefully bit because when we were doing it she was panicking we might cut out fingers, (she said at least 5 times Ethan be careful, your mum will be cross will me if you chop your fingers!) Why wasn't she worried about my fingers?!!

3  When they all chopped put them into a saucepan...

Or you could play basket ball like us! My turn to hold the 'net' and Ethan chucked the wedges

Then Ethan held the net

Anyone see where that last one went!

4  When all the wedges are in the pan, cover with cold water and put on the stove to boil

5  When they have reached boiling, turn them off, and strain with a colander

Anyone seen the colander?

6 Pop the wedges on to a roasting tray and cover with the oil, salt and stir very gently to make sure they are coated with out breaking them up

7  Cook for about 45-50 minutes until golden brown

8  When they are cooked, very carefully (the oil is really hot) use a slotted spoon to lift them onto some kitchen roll, this helps them to drain some of the oil away

9  Eat

We hope you enjoy these.

Sometimes we put a couple of teaspoons of mixed herbs or paprika on them before cooking, and you can make a nice dip by chopping a few chives into some mayonaise too.

Thank you to Ethan for helping to cook

Thank you for your time

Bye for now from Reuben

(Ethan, Mattie, Jacob and Joel bean too)