Homemade French Fries

    Browsing through my Cooking Light magazine inspired Arnauld and I to make homemade french fries today.  There was an advertisement for the website, healthypotato.com and a picture of very delicious looking potato wedges.  These were very easy to make and were as tasty as they looked in the magazine picture.


Homemade French Fries

Ingredients
4 medium potatoes
1 tbsp olive oil
1 tsp rosemary
Olive oil cooking spray
salt
pepper

Method
1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
2. Place scrubbed potatoes in a microwave safe covered dish.  If covering with plastic, poke a hole in the plastic.  Cook in microwave on high for 3-4 minutes.  When done, remove from microwave (make sure you wear oven mits).  I put the bowl in the fridge for a few minutes to cool the potatoes down so cutting them would be less painful. 
3. Once potatoes are cool enough, cut each potato into 8 wedges.
4.  Put the wedges in a bowl and coat with olive oil and rosemary. 
5. Place wedges in a single layer on a baking sheet.  After about 10 minutes, spray with olive oil spray and turn wedges.  Spray the fries again and cook for 10 more minutes or until golden brown.
6. Take fries from the oven and sprinkle with salt and pepper. 

The Taste Test
     Cooking the potatoes for a few minutes in the microwave made these fries really easy to cut.  What a great idea!  These fries were really good and the best part was that they did not leave me feeling greasy or guilty for eating french fries.