Baked: Baked Potato Blues

Subject: Baked Potato Blues
Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking
From: Scott Brundage (brundage at televar.com)
Date: 4 Feb 1998 06:44:20 GMT
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O.K. There are baked potatos with butter and salt and pepper, baked potatos with bacon bits, baked potatos with sour cream.

But there must be more! My happiness does not depend upon finding some innovative ways of making or eating baked potatos but it would help! Any suggestions?
From: Bob Y. (rdyoung at wcc.net)
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 04:28:34 -0600
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Well, you can top them with shredded cheese, chili, salsa, darned near anything you can think of.
From: mardi at wctravel.com (Mardi Wetmore)
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 03:12:48 GMT
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My favorite addition (and it can be low in fat depending on the amount of cheese) is a mixture of fat free sour cream and gorgonzola cheese. Sometimes I also add diced green onion tops.
From: Becca (becca at hal-pc.org)
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 08:05:09 -0600
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At work one day, I put nothing but lemon-pepper on my baked potato, and I loved it.
From: Becca (becca at hal-pc.org)
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 08:59:10 -0600
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For baked potato ideas, here are a couple of links from my bookmarks:

http://bigspud.com/

http://www.ajlc.waterloo.on.ca/Recipies/Baked_Potato.html [dead link]
http://www.primenet.com/~andspud/ [dead link]
From: Charlie Liam (saiga at concentric.net)
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 00:32:15 -0800
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Becca wrote:
> At work one day, I put nothing but lemon-pepper on my baked potato, and
> I loved it.

Have you tried Penzey's "Florida Seasoned Pepper"? That stuff is awesome.
From: stan at thunder.temple.edu (Stan Horwitz)
Date: 4 Feb 1998 15:13:27 GMT
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A baked potato with any meltable cheese on top makes for a nice dinner.
From: antispam at ucs.indiana.edu (Mimi W. Tzeng)
Date: 4 Feb 1998 16:38:35 GMT
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Unless I'm really lazy, I usually saute some onions, garlic, and mushrooms together (in olive oil) and put that into the potato. Then I add things like garlic salt, black pepper, paprika, red pepper, (not necessarily all at once!), chives, butter, sour cream/plain yogurt, grated cheddar. I recently tried some black olives in this mix and it worked quite well also. If I'm really ambitious, I steam or boil some broccoli, too. I imagine that the cheese sauce from macaroni and cheese would work well, but haven't tried that yet.

Think of it like any other starch that you would add things to (pasta, rice, etc.) Basically, it's limited by your tastebuds and imagination. ;)
From: dabluez (dabluez at micron.net)
Date: 4 Feb 1998 16:58:30 GMT
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I like chili on my baked taters.... especially the last few months of this pregnancy...all I want is SALT SALT SALT!
From: malfdn at aol.com
Date: 4 Feb 1998 17:23:10 GMT
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There is a bulletin board which can answer your potato question. The BB can be found at
http://www.homenfamily.com [archive.org].