french fries

My dad bought a little fryer recently, and while I was home last weekend, we made some french fries to go with our burgers. We got three regular potatoes and peeled them, then we cut them into long strips and let them soak in water. We used peanut oil in the fryer, and once it was really hot and bubbling, we threw in batches of the potatoes (note: first dry the potatoes otherwise the water will make the oil spit out at you - yikes!). It said to let them cook about 13 minutes, but just keep an eye on it. Interestingly enough, the potatoes that we threw in plain were really dark, and the potatoes that we tossed in a flour and pepper mixture turned out lighter. I don't really know the science on that, but I liked the flour ones a little better. After they were done, we let them dry a bit on newspaper before transferring them to parchment paper on a baking sheet, seasoned them (some with just salt and some with creole) and letting them crisp up a bit in a 350 degree oven.

Note: these were just some phone pictures I took because I thought it would be nice to share this even though it wasn't really a recipe per se.