The second of our vegetarian options, and also the last of this little sequence of “Experimental Cookery” posts, this was basically baked potatoes on the BBQ. The method comes from Tom Kerridge’s “Outdoor Cooking”. (I’ve been getting a lot of use out of his books recently.)
Needless to say, the method for this was simple enough: bake the potatoes on the BBQ, then open and sprinkle with paprika and cheese, and then bake for five more minutes to melt the cheese.
Unfortunately, this was not entirely successful – the potatoes took much much longer than expected to cook, which messed up all the rest of the timings. In hindsight, I think maybe I should have done them in the oven, or even put them directly in the coals.
The end result tasted very nice, but they weren’t as cooked as they really should have been. But the other thing that surprised me was that in addition to my sister and I having one each, my mother took one of the potatoes – indeed, she started off by saying she was very full but could maybe be tempted and then fairly quickly switched to asking frequently whether they were done yet. I count that as a good sign.
The upshot of that is that this is another thing I think we’ll have again, but I’d need to give some thought to how I’m going to do them. For best results, these want to be ready much earlier in the day, so that will need some consideration.
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