Ninip wrote:

> I have a dilemma, please advice needed. I am going to cook a large ham for
> dinner and have decided this year to have baked potatoes and not mashed.
> How can I pull this off? Ham in oven for 3 hours at 350, but the potatoes
> need 1 hour at 450.

450?????? I suppose that if you were doing a bunch of potatoes it would be
worth it to heat up your oven that hot just for them. I only bake potatoes if I
am roasting or baking something else, in which case the spuds are cooked at the
same temperature as whatever else is already in there. I just cook them a
little longer. For instance, if I am baking chicken legs I give them about an
hour at 350. I stick the potato in while the oven is heating up and give it 15
minutes longer, more if they are really big potatoes.

>
> Do not want to use microwave we like the crispy skins when they are done in
> the oven. I also of course want to make ham gravy.
> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated my dinner is in 4 hours.
>