A thread in praise of the humble jacket potato

[moomoo]

You just can't go wrong with a baked potato can you? Of all the lovely meals on the wonderful 'what's for tea' thread, it seems (after much research*) that baked potatoes are the favourite comfort food of suburbanites.

So, what's your favourite topping? I don't think you can beat cheese and coleslaw with lots of butter. And always done in the oven so the skin is all crispy.










*Actually, not much at all, if any............

 

[Tank Girl]

we're having baked potatoes tonight

tonight we're having it with fish and cauliflower cheese, but if it's just a spud for tea I like it best with beans and cheese.

 

[chymaera]

Nothing humble about the jacket spud you can nearly live on them healthily with no other food.

 

[vipper]

Beans and cheese is the ultimate.

Or tuna mayo.

Or coleslaw.

If you want to go posh then baked sweet potato with feta cheese salad is top.

 

[Detroit City]

i like butter and sour cream the best. i also eat the skin too and also like the ones that have salt on the outside

 

[Firky]

Brie + Garlic = win.

 

[bluestreak]

I will drink a toast to the jacket spud. Food of the gods.

I want one now. I'm going to make one. Thanks moomoo.

 

[May Kasahara]

Mmmm, jackets. You know I love and revere the jacket spud moomoo and I agree that cheese and coleslaw probably is the finest topping known to humanity. It's something I never get tired of.

 

[cesare]

Mmmm jacket potatoes or sweet potatoes. Butter and freshly ground black pepper is ace. Loads of other toppings but baked beans are wrong and shunnable.

 

[Detroit City]

Loads of other toppings but baked beans are wrong and shunnable.

Baked beans on a jacket potatoe?

that's a new one!

 

[cesare]

Baked beans on a jacket potatoe?

that's a new one!

A bit too bloody popular hereabouts for my liking And sometimes they put cheese on it as well

 

[MarkMark]

I had a JP tonight


it was ace!

 

[Tank Girl]

i also eat the skin too

don't most people?

 

[felixthecat]

I had a jacket potato for lunch today. Chucked in the oven at work mid morning (along with half the staff of where I work ) and had it with cheese and beans and salad.

Bloody lovely!

 

[Orang Utan]

Coleslaw is the devil's vomit


Beans and cheese and loads of butter - can't go wrong there
But I've discovered Gorgonzola with cubed pancetta is lush too

 

[tarannau]

Coleslaw is the devil's vomit

<Applauds loudly>

Coleslaw's the one food that turns my stomach from a distance, even from smell alone. Some ill advised childhood force-feeding incidents (never repeated after the second technicolour upchuck) led to a lasting aversion to this astringent smelling ugliness. Hell, it even looks like strands of violently expelled stomach lining before it goes in. Evil stuff.

Erm. And with the humble potato I'm happy with beans and plenty of cheese, or the classic with leftover chilli combination. Just something about that cheesy gooiness with fluffy potato that makes it irrestible.

 

[Orang Utan]

It's all that raw stuff with that smeg coating it - what is the smeg made of? Is it mayo?

 

[Detroit City]

don't most people?

dunno, over here its seems that most do not.

 

[Orang Utan]

dunno, over here its seems that most do not.

Then aren't they missing the point? Why don't they just have boiled potatoes?

 

[May Kasahara]

Mayo, or a creme fraiche dressing, or some other kind of dressing, depending on how you make it

 

[Orang Utan]

Mayo, or a creme fraiche dressing, or some other kind of dressing, depending on how you make it

I like those things though.
Raw carrot though <shudders>
and what's the other stuff in it?

 

[May Kasahara]

Usually cabbage, carrot and onion/red onion/spring onion, depending on preference.

 

[tarannau]

It's all that raw stuff with that smeg coating it - what is the smeg made of? Is it mayo?

It's like a spunk reduction of salad cream, extra vinegar and added awfulness. It's a sad way to treat a noble carrot, eviscerated and covered with that filth. Why, o god, why?

 

[Detroit City]

Then aren't they missing the point? Why don't they just have boiled potatoes?

don't know.....the skin is the best part as far as i'm concerned.

especially if its a bit burnt

 

[Orang Utan]

Usually cabbage, carrot and onion/red onion/spring onion, depending on preference.

All raw! I don't mind a bit of raw onion in a cheese sandwich, but as a rule raw veg is just wrong

 

[Detroit City]

It's like a spunk reduction

you do know that that means semen right?

 

[Orang Utan]

you do know that that means semen right?

I think he does, hence his use of the word

 

[salem]

Coleslaw is the devil's vomit

Here here

JP with Tuna mayo for me (just a little mayo and one of the few occasions I'll take it)

Failing that I like chilli, curry or cheese.

Or the safe bet - just butter.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

You just can't go wrong with a baked potato can you? Of all the lovely meals on the wonderful 'what's for tea' thread, it seems (after much research*) that baked potatoes are the favourite comfort food of suburbanites.

So, what's your favourite topping? I don't think you can beat cheese and coleslaw with lots of butter. And always done in the oven so the skin is all crispy.










*Actually, not much at all, if any............

I love potatoes in their jackets....when my kids were little and still at home, if I was knackered after work I'd always let them choose what we had for supper, and (YAY!) they always asked for potatoes in their jackets....I love the French for potatoes in their jackets.....it's pommes de terre en robes du champs....apples of the earth in the robes of the fields

 

[tarannau]

I am heartened by this display of good taste. The campaign to purge all of our public spaces of this coleslaw nastiness is underway!