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  • How to Use an Apple Slicer to Make Potato Wedges

    How to Use an Apple Slicer to Make Potato Wedges

     

    Kitchen DIY: Fast Tip for Cutting up Potatoes
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    Quick tip for Cutting up Potatoes for potato wedges:  When you need to cut up a lot of potatoes, either for dehydrating, making home fries, mashed taters, stew, or whatever – simply peel, and run through an apple corer.

    It makes evenly sized strips, is easy, safe, and it keeps you from buying a special potato slicer.

    This tip for cutting up potatoes is pretty simple, and I am sure it took you longer to read it than to grasp it.

    I probably could have said – cut potatoes with a apple slicer and you would have instinctively gotten the message. I use this tip when I make home fries as it makes large slices that are uniform.  It also works when you are boiling up potatoes to make mashed taters, but now that I have an instapot, I don’t think that is as important.

    I also use my pressure cooker to cook potatoes so cutting them up is not quite as important as it use to be.  If you don’t want to cut up your potatoes, you can also use an electric drill for fast peeling of the potatoes instead of fast Cutting up Potatoes.  Anyway, this tip works well, and my son loves doing it this way almost as much as he loves breaking eggs.

  • Recipe: Bacon Wrapped Twice Baked Potatoes

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    All prep and no play makes Dave a dull boy, this is not a prep article really, but every once in a while I like a neat new recipe – because if I ever have to live off of my stored food without the ability to augment with a whopper or stuffed crust pizza I am going to want several extra options of cooking beans, rice, and potatoes so I don’t get “food boredom”

    This recipe for Bacon wrapped twice baked potatoes is normally made for company, its really easy, pretty cheap, and tastes awesome. Unfortunately, I normally make an entire tray full at a time because at my house we don’t leave the range with a half shot box of ammo, nor do we only cook a half package of bacon. Since it tastes so good, and I make so much of it when I do make it, I reserve it for times when I have a lot of folks to eat it.

    Ingredients:

    • Potatoes
    • Bacon
    • Cheese
    • Anything else you put in mashed taters – sour cream, mayo, salt whatever…
    • Round toothpicks soaked in water for at least and hour

    Procedure

    • Preheat oven to 375
    • Wash and peel half as many medium to large potatoes as you have bacon slices.
    • Cut a slice off of the top and bottom of each potato so that it can stand up. Reserve ends for mashed potatoes.
    • Cut each potato in half.
    • Wrap each potato half in bacon – use wet toothpicks to hold bacon to potato. (Using 4 toothpicks per potato holds the bacon really well).
    • Lightly oil cookie sheet and place small end of potato down (this makes it easier to scoop later).
    • Bake 30-45 minutes or until tender.
    • While baking wrapped potatoes, boil potato ends until soft.
    • Open oven and remove tray.
    • Gently scoop potato centers out to make a bowl.
    • Mix baked centers with boiled potato ends and make mashed potatoes. I like to add some cheese to the mix, but however you make mashed potatoes is fine.
    • Scoop (or pipe if you’re a gourmand) mix into potato bowl.
    • Top with shredded cheese.
    • Place back in oven and bake 10-15 minutes or until cheese is melted to desired doneness.
    • Remove, let cool, and remove toothpicks gently.

    Tip – Potato is baked when bacon is crispy.