...baked potato? during vegan MOFO, i've listed baking potatoes in bulk as a wonderful way to have food on hand when you don't wanna cook. when you spend your special day during the week to cook other foods, take an extra 15 minutes to scrub, rub, wrap, and bake some taters. go out on a limb and bake sweet potatoes too. they're really versatile! i like to do the following with them:
- eat them with toppings. have an official baked potato bar night and fix up some toppings: soy sour cream, gravy, chili, onions, facon bacon bits, caramelized onions, jalapeno peppers, roasted red peppers, cheez sauce, use your imagination! when you use sweet potatoes, you can make sweet toppings: brown sugar n' butter, vegan marshmallow topping, pineapple sauce topping from VWAV. GO CRAZY!
- grate them through a cheez grater and pan fry for some good hash browns or cube them up and pan fry for some awesome american fries. i use the following recipe for home fries: ms. dash, caramelized onions, and facon bacon bits. get 'em good n' crispaaay. top with some frank's red hot and ketchup.
- chop them up and add broccoli or asparagus with them in a casserole dish. mix some cheez sauce from v'con and top with french's french fried onions--voila, yer rockin' the casserole!
- returning to the cheez grater: grate a cooled baked potato and mix with some chopped onion, spices, flour and just enough plain soy milk to hold the mixture together. drop spoon fulls into a non stick pan with a pool of oil. they should look like little bird's nests. latkes! for those of you who don't know what a latke is, it's a potato pancake.
- cubed up as an add in to stews or soups. then you don't have to wait as long for your stew/soup to cook.
- sliced up in long wedges, bathed in a splash of olive oil/bragg's, and dredged in a mixture of ground up dry cereal, paprika, ms. dash, garlic powder, and cornmeal. bake at 350 for 20 minutes. mojos! (((imitating billy bob thorton's voice from slingblade))) "some people call them steak fries, but i call them mojos."
I've tried to eat vegan cheese before... seriously... it ain't cheese... =)
ReplyDeleteI like your casserole idea.
ReplyDeleteAn easy go-to meal of my family's is a baked potato (or sweet potato!) topped with baked beans and maybe some vegan cheese (well, the rest of the family uses non-vegan cheese).
The mighty baked potato is a staple in the Hungry Hungry Veganos house. And don't forget the side of corn! :)
ReplyDeleteI need to buy some big potatoes again! I've been buying economy bags of whatever small potatoes they have from a vendor at the farmer's market, and you can't really eat those baked potato style! I love the casserole idea!
ReplyDeleteI slice them, toast in the oven a bit and top with some sort of melty vegan cheese (like Rice Slices) and vegan baco-bits. Sorta like potato skins. Yum! We always have extra baked potatoes around.
ReplyDeleteMmm, I always love potatoes!
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