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Default My Dinner 10/21/2017
On 10/23/2017 10:04 AM, wrote:
> jmcquown wrote:
>>
>> You can cook a russet potato in the microwave and call it baked.
>> But it's not, really. It's not nearly as good as a russet that
>> has been pricked with a fork, skin rubbed with butter, sprinkled
>> with salt and baked in a hot oven. IMHO, of course.
>
> Usually when baking potatoes I'll bake a half dozen in the oven, then
> I'll reheat the extras in the microwave... only a minute per and we
> find no real difference from right out of the oven... in fact that's
> what a lot of restaurants do.

No they don't.

But I *will* use leftover baked potatos to make soup.


> But when in a hurry I'd rather boiled potatoes than nuked from raw...
> and again I'll boil extras... we really enjoy boiled spuds smashed
> with butter and/or plain yogurt. We also like cold boiled potatos
> smashed with plain yogurt... goes well with pickled herring or plain
> left over cold fish.
> There's always a way to use left over baked/boiled... baked can be
> restuffed, boiled makes great home fries, or potato salad. I don't
> remember ever cooking just two potatoes... there's got to be a zillion
> ways to use left over baked/boiled potatoes... smash em and add most
> anything and form patties to fry. And there's always hash. Easiest
> is diced into a frittata.
>
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