Chips for stressed people

Chips for the end of a long, stressful week (with a little help from Nigella):

4 or 5 scrubbed potatoes
60 ml vegetable oil
Salt
A freezer bag

Place a potato in the freezer bag, place on bench. Take a medium saucepan and use its base to pound the crap out of potato in freezer bag. Well when I say pound, I mean two or three (at most) cracking bashes. Remove potato carcass and keep aside. Repeat with remaining potatoes.

Heat oil in the same saucepan. When it just begins to smoke, place potatoes gradually in oil and allow to cook for 5-6 minutes on medium heat, giving a little stir occassionally.

Remove to a paper towel-lined plate. Sprinkle with salt to taste, along with parsley if you’re feeling extravagant.

Serves one (and only ever one).

Along with the bashing bit, the yumminess helps take away all that anxiety from the week. Goes great with sour cream, too.