I am still looking through my old recipe folder and it’s amazing how old fashioned many of these recipes are. Who knew there were a such strong threads of fashion with food. My last post of avocado and salmon mousse is one example of old-fashioned and this current recipe is another – stuffed potatoes. This was de mode when I was a teenager and here I am serving it up again decades later. I must see what else is in my folder that screams the last millennium.
Tomorrow, I am starting the making of my very first video for my cookbook, “Low FODMAP Menus for Irritable Bowel Syndrome”. I have Dario’s girlfriend to play the part of the cook – well her hands mainly. It’s an exciting exercise as I love learning new skills. I have a vision in my head of what I want it to turn out like but I imagine my first attempt might be far from ideal. But one has to start somewhere. You, my readers, will be the first ones to see it when it is ready. Fingers crossed it is actually worthy of being exposed publicly.
- 4 well-shaped baking potatoes
- 1 green pepper, chopped finely
- 4 rashers of bacon, chopped
- ½ cup sour cream
- 1 cup grated Edam cheese
- Salt & pepper
- 125gms/4.5oz corn
- 2 tbsp chopped parsley
- Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F
- Wash the potatoes and pierce several times with a fork.
- Place on an oven tray, place in the oven and bake for an hour.
- Remove and cool until you can handle them.
- Cook the bacon until crisp.
- Scoop the filling out of the potato skins and place in a bowl.
- Place all the other ingredients except ½ cup of grated cheese in with the potato and mix together.
- Spoon the mixture into the potato shells.
- Distribute the rest of the cheese on top of them.
- Cook in the hot oven for about 20 minutes until the cheese is melted and golden.
- Serve with a green salad.
Good luck with the video! Exciting to try new things. I often have a vision for how I want my pictures to looks, and sometimes I even succeed! Anyway, I haven’t had stuffed potatoes in years! A really good recipe — I need to make these. Thanks.
My photos kind of work out how I want now, But videoing is a whole other kettle of fish. I don’t even know if you can use aperture with it and I love playing with aperture to get the effect I want. We’ll soon see.
Good luck with your video and it’s great Dario’s girlfriend is there to be a ‘helping hand’. I love the look of your stuffed potatoes – that’s the sort of fare that goes down very well in this house xx
I had forgotten all about the stuffed potatoes of the past until I went through that folder. It is good food.
I have shot the main part of the video and now the putting together. Oh, what a learning curve this all is!
This is my absolute favorite way to eat potatoes!
It really does make a meal in one. There’s no need for anything else.
Do you understand IBS? The corn would be instant death.
Marisa, yes, I do understand IBS. I have had it all my life. I am following the low FODMAP diet for IBS, which is a specialized diet developed by Dr Sue Shepherd of the Monash University in 1999. It helps 75% of IBS sufferers and it allows corn. If you are no good with corn, then don’t eat it. But it is not a problem with all IBS sufferers – not the 75% who are helped by the low FODMAP diet.
We had this for lunch today and it was delicious – perfect for a cold day. Thank you.