We need to talk about potatoes here.

[lagatta]

I get the idea that they are rest stops on autoroutes and other kinds of highways. One of the best small chains here for patates frites here is the supposedly Belgian "Frite alors!" They do have good frites though - more the exception than the rule here in Montréal.

As for me, I cooked some rattes - very tasty potatoes. I prepared some pieces of lamb's liver with red onions and other things. it isn't quite suppertime here. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratte_potato The rattes were a little present - no, I don't mean lady rats

[kerouac2]

I had no reason to disbelieve that you can bake potatoes in a microwave oven, but I had never done it before. I can now confirm that it works.

[onlyMark]

I'm not impressed at all with potatoes done in a microwave. I wouldn't call them baked anyway.

[kerouac2]

Well, first I baked them and then I covered them with cheese at a lower setting for a few minutes, and the result suited me.

[cheerypeabrain]

If you over cook potatoes in the microwave they become deliciously crunchy...the trick is NOT to OVER-over cook them...then they are inedible.

Im growing potatoes in tubs this year again. Charlotte...a second early salad potato.

[fumobici]

I tried microwave potatoes a couple of times when I first got a microwave. Not impressed with the result.

[kerouac2]

I think that the fact that I used relatively small potatoes probably helped.

[casimira]

Apr 6, 2022 18:22:37 GMT onlyMark said:

I'm not impressed at all with potatoes done in a microwave. I wouldn't call them baked anyway.

I agree and would never consider trying to do them any other way than the in a real oven.

That being said we did them in the microwave last evening. I teased my husband and told him I could hear my parents and ancestors turning in their grave so he had to be the one to prepare them.

We were strapped for time and it was very hot. We didn't want to crank up the oven in the tiny kitchenette where we are and heat the place up.

Much to my surprise they were very good although I contend that they were not the same as doing them in a real oven.

I loved hearing that Cheery is growing potatoes named "Charlotte" as that was my mother's name.

[mich64]

I microwave small potatoes frequently throughout the summer.

After I microwave them, I let them cool off, cut them in half and then put them in a either tinfoil or a tin pan, sprinkle with olive oil and add a few spoonfuls of butter, salt and pepper and let them roast on the BBQ or on cool days, in the oven. I find them crunchy on the outside and fluffy inside. Sometimes I toss them along with green beans in a dill cream salad dressing.

[bixaorellana]

Mich, those sound perfect!