On Sat, 16 Mar 2019 23:49:39 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> wrote:

>
>"cshenk" > wrote in message
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>> Well friends, like always I start cooking by looking in the veggie bin!
>> Since Charlotte is still trimming, this one came over as 'I haven't had
>> fries in ages!'
>>
>> Now tomorrow is a freebee diet day as we celebrate Saint Patrick and
>> that means 'Daddy Fries' but she wanted something for other times.
>>
>> Take carrots and cut lengthwise then placing the flat part down, cut to
>> fries (shoestring type cut works best here). You want enough for each
>> person to have 1 cup of carrot fries. Carrots are 52 calories a cup.
>> Potatoes are 105.

Probably those fercocktah pre-peeled bags of 'baby' carrots = farm
trash.

>> Dust the carrot pieces with 1/4 TB cornstarch per cup of cut carrots
>> then sprinkle with spices. We liked a sweet paprika and a whisky smoked
>> black pepper. Cornstarch is 30 calories per TB or 7.5 per 1/4 TB.
>>
>> Drizzle 1/2 TB olive oil per cup of carrots and mix well. Olive oil is
>> variable by brand but the one on my counter says 120 per TB (15ML) so
>> 60 calories used per cup of fries.
>>
>> I had just finished baking bread at 400F so added these in a single
>> layer and flipped them 10 minutes later and they were done in about
>> another 10 minutes.
>>
>> Calories per cup: 52+7.5+60=119.5 (call it 120, or 60 per 1/2 cup
>> serving size). Sodium negligible. Cost estimate hard to define because
>> of spice versions and that cornstarch lasts forever so can't recall the
>> price. A swag would be 20cents per cup?
>>
>> Provided that carrots do not spike BG's in your case, this is Vegan,
>> Vegetarian, diabetic acceptable, low sodium, and while not classic
>> low-fat does fit in a low fat diet.
>>
>> *classic low-fat can be odd. Often they required each dish not have
>> more than a percentage of the calories from fats. Because of the olive
>> oil, this one fails the classic test with more than 10% from fats.
>
>What is the point of the cornstarch?

What's the point of all that labor and those carrot fries save no
calories, carrots suck up more oil than potatoes and contain a lot of
sugar... instead have real fries with spuds... simply cut the fries
larger and deep fry... larger fries have lots less surface area to
hold oil, and place them into a small brown paper bag to absorb oil...
shake with some salt if you like. Larger fries stay hot longer, the
bag will keep them hot longer too. I never buy fast food fries, they
are way too small and they are NOT real potatoes, they are extruded
from dehy potato paste and chems, and frozen. BLECH!
Fast food fries and frozen fries from the freezer section are the same
as thinking Pringles are potato chips. When was the last time any of
yoose ate hand cut fries, likely never.