"crunchy" potato fries with "herbs de provence"

One thing my family loves to do during the summer, like many people, is cook out. My dad likes to think that he's Bobby Flay so he's always willing to fire up the grill.

Sunday night, dad made some burgers and I thought, What goes great with burgers? FRIES!. So I headed over to my favorite cooking blog and found this fabulous recipe for Oven Baked Fries.

I was pumped. These bad boys looked fabulous and I'd trust Joy with my life. I talked about her before here in a previous post. I sliced my potatoes, preheated my oven, added some evoo to my pan and my fries and but them in the oven. After ten minutes I took the pan out of the oven to stir the potatoes as the recipe suggested and they didn't move. Yeah, they were stuck to the pan. I was livid. I was trying to make fries not mashed potatoes!!!! Was Joy lying to me? I could have sworn she and I were friends. But, after 30 minutes, no crunch.

Just when I thought I was going to have to stop following Joy the Baker and her blog, I decided to turn on the broiler and BAM! Those fries were fabulous and crunchy. She added herbs de provence but I had none so I made my own after researching what it was. It was delicious. Cut the potatoes as thin as Joy says to! I think that's why my fries didn't turn out as I'd hoped.