Thursday, November 6, 2025

Rain's Thursday Art and Dinner Date - 'November Rain' art theme and Home Baked Fries

Welcome to Rain's Thursday Art and Dinner Date's 'November Rain' theme! Here is my ACEO (2 1/2' x 3 1/2") acrylic on canvas.

 


 For the dinner date, my sister gave me this recipe from one of her cookbooks for home baked fries.

Peel the potatoes, leave a few strips of skin on. Cut into 1/3" strips, sit in cold lightly salted water for 1 hour.

Drain potatoes, dry well on kitchen towels.  I used paper towels. Spray baking sheet with floured cooking spray, you can find Pam baking no-stick cooking spray.  Do not use parchment paper.  I didn't use the floured spray and my fries stuck to the tray.  You could probably just lightly oil and flour the pan if you don't have cooking spray.

Place the dried potatoes on the sprayed and floured baking sheet.  Season with olive oil, salt (maybe 1/4 tsp), pepper and herbs.  Bake at 400F for 40-50 min. Rotate the pan halfway through baking, stir the potatoes occasionally.  Done when golden brown.

37 comments:

Anne Hagman-Niilola said...

Wow! Cool ART!

Lucimar da Silva Moreira said...

Linda a sua arte, amo batatas fritas essas aí estão deliciosas, Christine bjs.

ellie said...

The potatoes look yummy! Awesome art piece ❤️

Caitlin&Megan said...

Such a colorful painting! Wonderful! Oh, I could go for those potatoes right now 🫠

Angie's Recipes said...

Beautiful art work, Christine.

Leigh said...

I always like your mini-paintings Christine. I'd love to see them all in a collage of sorts.

jabblog said...

I could almost welcome rain for that umbrella.

Asep Haryono said...

My children love for home baked fries either. They have growep up and busy all the time. Perhaps they can make it together. Thanks for remembering us about this

Granny Annie said...

I love this Christine. Mine is very weird because I tried another digital picture. The first in years.

Kathylorraine said...

Good morning, love your painting and those fries look delicious! this is me kathyinozarks-I think I finally have a blog that is working smiles-just click on my photo here and should take you to it
hugs

Maria Medeiros said...

Happy Thursday! Lovely artwork and wonderful fries! :) have a lovely rest of the week Christine!

R's Rue said...

Yum

Martha Jane Orlando said...

I love the brightness of your red umbrella, Christine. It can make even a rainy day seem Brighter!

Ananka said...

Nice art and like the look of the fries :-D

Mary Kirkland said...

The fries look good.

roentare said...

There’s something so satisfying about perfecting homemade fries,

Soma @ InkTorrents.com said...

A Wonderful and vivid painting! The black background is just perfect.

-Soma

Gillena Cox said...

Lovely November rain art

Much♡love

J.P. Alexander said...

Bella pintura. Amo las papas. Te mando un beso.

CAAC said...

A dark rainy night & a red umbrella. This sounds elements in a murder mystery. 😊 Mmm, oven fries! They look and sound delicious! I definitely want to try your recipe. I'm make oven fries but mine are thicker. Di you drizzle oil over the potatoes?

Lowcarb team member said...

Lovely art Christine.

All the best Jan

Christine said...

Cathy I added oil just before baking

Dixie @ Arranged Words said...

Lovely painting.
Hmmm those fries look so tasty.

Sandra Cox said...

Those fries look delish and I absolutely love that painting!

My name is Erika. said...

That looks like tasty potatoes. :) And nice November rain. As long as it's not November snow. :)

ALLIE NYC said...

Love this painting just love the movement in it. And this potato recipe sounds de-lish!

Allie of
www.allienyc.com

CheerfulMonk said...

I love rain, so that picture makes me happy. :)

Tom said...

...keep your umbrella handy and stay warm and dry.

EricaSta said...

We love this potatos. Great painting too. Yes now in November we need the umbrella.

DeniseinVA said...

Great contrast from red to black.

DeniseinVA said...

Thanks for the recipe. Looks great!

The Happy Whisk said...

Yum on the spuds. Great work on the art.

Martha said...

I love your rain art and the potatoes look delicious!

Jeanie said...

That's a great tip on the floured cooking spray. Thanks -- I might try these -- they look great.

The Rev. Arnoldo L. Romero, MLA said...

Hi Christine! That is a striking rain inspired piece you created. Blessings!

Busy Bee Suz said...

I've not met a potato that I didn't like and those look great!
Your art work reminds me of the old container of salt with the little girl and the umbrella!

Rain said...

Christine, I've never seen such fries! Interesting about the floured spray, I will have to keep an eye out for that. I do love homemade fries! Your artwork is great, nice pop of color on the umbrella!