Jamie Kennedy’s haute cuisine French Fries

Jamie Kennedy french fries served at the ACC look great. Do not ask if this dish is healthy. It is not. $6.50CAD per serving.

Intriguing, this. If there ever was an oxymoron, haute cuisine french fries is it. Still, I remain open minded. Our family loves home cut french fries, which gives us a warm and friendly feeling in our house. There’s nothing “haute” cuisine about them; maybe “moyennes” but not “haute”. Still, when Jamie Kennedy, whom I now know is a chef, serves his french fries at Toronto’s Air Canada Centre, I wanted to learn more. I think the ACC is where they have sporting events such as baseball, and hockey. The skinny: organically grown yellow potatoes from Ontario fried in sunflower oil, with two types of sea salt and a dash of thyme. Cider or chili mayonnaise sauce on the side. $6.50CAD a serving.

I have tried using yellow potatoes for fries and they have been way too soft. There seems to be insufficient snap to them. I have also read that yellow potatoes are not as suitable for fries as the regular white potatoes. Other than the difference in softness I found there was little difference in taste.

The two kinds of sea salt are interesting. Sea salt imparts a very different flavour to your fries. We use sea salt exclusively for fries. The last bag of sea salt was from Korea, purchased at a local Korean store. I just recently bought a 500g container of sea salt from Greece. I hope that when I use this new sea salt that my fries will not have any excessively oil flavour. Perhaps not. Even my little weeds, who have taste buds that could not differentiate an elephant from a groundhog, easily said the sea salt had much better flavour than regular iodized table salt. Maybe I should research and try different sea salts. I did not even know they could taste any different, but I said this about iodized table salt as well, and I was wrong.

I will not drain my frier in order to try sunflower oil. That is too “haute” for me and very impractical. You know some of that $6.50CAD charge is going to pay for sunflower oil. I will stick to my more affordable canola, where I can buy a 3L container for $4CAD.

A dash of thyme? Who would have thought! We grow fresh thyme at the front of the house. I better get it before the snow flies. I love the smell of thyme, so there will be no hesitation to try it on my fries.

The cider or chili mayonnaise sauce will require further research. Firstly I have no idea what this is other than there is a cider or chili component, and there is mayo involved. We rarely eat may so this side dish might not get done.

One can only try and experiment. You never know what tasty fries might result.

Note:
–Macro photo of Jamie Kennedy’s fries. Note the thyme.
-I thought I knew Jamie Kennedy, but in fact I only knew Jamie Oliver. At least they are both chefs.
-Much to my chagrin the Little Weeds refused to allow me to switch our spice combo for today’s batch of fries. I had pulled out the thyme bottle and was summarily grilled by the Eldest, followed by a scolding for even thinking about changing such as good thing as our spice combo. Hmmm. I will have to do this experimentation on my own and spring it on them.