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Default Salt on potato skin

In article >,
"jmcquown" > wrote:

> "Andy" > wrote in message ...
> > Omelet said...
> >
> >> Mm, disagree. ;-) The crispy baked skin is my favorite part.

> >
> >
> > Yeah, yeah, yeah! On the potato skins front, I realize I'm fighting an
> > uphill
> > battle.
> >
> > Andy
> >

>
> Obviously
>
> Used to be (back in the 1980's) "stuffed potato skins" were a big thing on
> many menus as an appetizer. I have no idea what they did with the middle of
> the potatoes


Probably served them as mashed?

> but the skins were served topped with cheese, sour cream,
> chives. Or bacon bits and cheese. One restaurant I went to had them topped
> with cubed round steak that was sauteed in a red wine sauce and I went home
> and re-created it. Potato skins can be wonderful and of course the salt on
> the outside helps a lot. Plain old potato skins are pretty boring.
>
> Jill


Then there are small spuds served as "twice baked".
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