I love french fries! LOVE LOVE LOVE them.  But last night we didn't have anymore in the freezer to go with our hotdogs.  Solution? This pin that states the potato slices are better than french fries. So of course I had to try them.  Unfortunately the link is only to that of a picture but the caption under the pin has instructions. 

Here's what you'll need if you follow their recipe
A potato (ummmm duh)
Olive Oil
Salt & Pepper
Butter

You'll need that for mine too but you'll need garlic salt instead of regular salt & minced onion

Preheat oven to 425.
Cut slices to potato make sure you cut all the way to the bottom of the potato without cutting all the way to the other side.
** I turned the potato on its side so I could see how far down my knife was in the potato. 

The pour a little bit of olive oil onto potato make sure you coat the entire potato but don't go overboard. Next pour melted butter on the potato as well.  Next sprinkle garlic salt, pepper & minced onions onto the potato. Becareful with the onion as they could burn in the oven if you have too many. 
** Make sure to get the oil, butter & spices on all side of the potato so it's all tasty

Cook for 45-50 minutes. 

The pin says 40 but I found that wasn't enough time to have them tender.
I had mine with sour cream to dip them in but mustard & ketchup will work as well.
Enjoy!

I love cinnamon, well except for cinnamon gum.  I especially love cinnamon toast, a recipe my Grandmother used to make me.  Cinnamon & sugar on toast.  It's not a ground-breaking innovative recipe but I love it & is a nice memory to have of my childhood with her. But almost every cinnamon in bakery land is a cinnamon & raisin combo. And with one word, raisin, my whole meal is ruined.  I HATE raisins.  I don't know why I didn't used to. Oh well.  When I decided on this make everything adventure I knew I had to try something cinnamon bread like. Well I found a recipe to try and here goes.

Attention this recipe makes 2 loafs.  Unless you have 2 bread pans cut this in half, you'll thank me later.

Here's what you'll need:

Bread ingredients:
5 3/4 cups bread flour
2 1/2 tsp instant yeast
2Tbs powdered milk
4tsp sugar
1Tb salt
1Tbs cinnamon
1/4tsp nutmeg
2 cups warm water (100-110 degrees) this is important or you'll kill your yeast, something I learned from my mom :)
3Tbs unsalted butter; melted
(2 cups raisins) I obviously left this out but if you want to heres how much

Combine all the dry ingredients in the bread & wisk together. Add the water & butter and knead with a dough hook on medium/low for 7-8 minutes.  Make sure its springy & stretchy. If your adding raisins add them now. & knead in the mixer for 2-3 more minutes.
Pour 1/2 a tsp of vegetable oil into a large bowl & put the dough in the bowl turning over until all sides are coated in oil. Cover with plastic wrap & let it rest for 90 minutes.

These instructions tell you to make the filling while the dough is resting. I advise against it. I recommend measuring all the ingredients out and getting all pans out but I wouldn't melt the butter yet.

Filling Ingredients:
3/4 cup white sugar (divided)
8tsp cinnamon (divided)
1 lg egg beaten
4Tbs unsalted butter, melted

Sprinkle flour on counter and then lay bread down. Sepearate bread in half. Roll out each portion of dough into a section roughly 10 inches by 12 inches.  (this helps it fit in the pan)

**here's another idea- I would definately focus on the length of the pan to make sure you don't have bread roll too long to fit and ignore the other demention.  I for one am going to roll it thinner on my next run so that I have more cinnamon & sugar mixture throughout the whole loaf. 

Using a pastry brush paint 1/2 the beaten egg onto the stretched dough. Leave a little pit unpainted to help seal the dough roll.  Sprinkle one bowl of the cinnamon & sugar mixture & then pour 1/2 the melted butter on the mixture.  Smear it all together.
Roll up the dough. Place roll into bread pan.
Repeat with second loaf. Cover both pans with towel & let rest for 60-90 minutes.

Preheat the oven to 425

Topping ingredients
1 egg white
4tsp sugar

Once the bread is ready to bake brush with the beaten egg white & sprinkle with 2tsp sugar. The instructions call for a aluminum foil tent on the bread to keep from burning the sugar on top.  They say to add it later. I say add it now for 2 reasons.  Mine was already way crunchier than I like by the time the 10-15 minutes came around like in original instruction. Second reason is to prevent you from burning the snot out of your hand like I did. :)

Bake bread for 15 minutes at 425.
Reduce heat to 400 and cook for 25 more minutes
Bread should be an internal temp of 190

Let cool in pan for 5 mins & then on cooling rack for 90 minutes.

This bread is awesome! Goes great with milk. Its my breakfast as I'm running out the door for work since I've overslept yet again. :)

Enjoy!