winter warmer - too dam fattening potatoes
Thread Starter: MammaChef Started: Tue 11 Nov 2003 Replies: 18
When I was young I was force fed baked potatoes with no butter or anything. I think that's why I've rebelled and put butter and cheese on everything.
Well after years of complaints from the small children that we were, my Mum started scraping out out baked potatoes and mashing them with the tiniest bit of butter and putting it bake in the skin. (She was beautiful and slim though, but not a good cook)
Over the years of MY cooking this has turned into:
bake potaotes in the microwave
scoop out the middle and mash it with everything you like, butter, cream whatever and place in a bowl.
Fry some bacon (but this can be omitted), some sauted mushrooms and some fried onions. Mix together with the mash and stuff it all back. Grate some cheese and bake.
Serve with baked beans.
All can be done ahead of time up to the baking stage so you can go out and then come home and stick it in the oven until its done or microwave it and stick it in the oven to brown.
You can add almost anything that can be added to the creamy brie mash as well as sweetcorn and anything that takes your fancy.
You can also add egg yolks and whisk up the whites and add these separately. This makes a much lighter dish that almost souflees in the oven.
This is a really filling, hearty dish that is cheap and easy to cook.....and we love it.
