Potato bake recipe please

Fourcandles_3

thriftlady wrote: »

Why not? There are plenty of cake recipes that use oil instead of butter or marge. Mayo is just an emulsion of eggs and oil with a touch of salt and vinegar. I have recipes for cakes with vinegar in them too.

I'm unable to eat mayo and yoghurts for some reason. I'm not allergic to them in the sense I can eat them in food but I just can't keep them down if I taste them. Even though I'm sure the cake is lovely I think mentally it just seems wrong I am a really awkward eater though:rolleyes:

Penelope_Penguin

MrsBartolozzi wrote: »

Thank you!! You are a star!!

And yes, I remember that it does take a while to cook (Mum was not the greatest cook in the world, and often the potatoes were very hard)

Glad you've found it :T Looks like one for us, too I'll add this to the exisitng potato bake thread to keep recipes together.

Penny. x

marc.faulkner

Afternoon all,

I have a jar of potato bake sauce (garlic and herb) in the cupboard, however no potatoes.

Just looking for opinions on how this would work with Pasta? As I have a plentiful supply of that...:D

If it definitely won't work then I'll knock up a tomato sauce to go with the pasta for dinner and keep this until we have potatoes in but I quite fancy the garlicy one today.

Cheers,

aliadds

If its anything like the pasta bake sauces you just add dry pasta, the sauce, and a jar of cod water. Should work fine!:)

zippychick

Hi Marc:hello:

I can't see why it wouldn't work to be honest (but I guess there is always a small chance? ) Should be ok though.:o

I'll add your thread to the existing one on potato bake, so you can read others suggestions and see if you maybe would prefer to make a sauce (and keep yours for pasta? )

thanks:)
Zip

abby1234519

I was considering making a sweet potato bake.

I've got

Sweet potatoes
Tinned carrots
Tinned ratatouille
Mushrooms
Red peppers
New potaoes (tinned)
Chunky vegetable pasta sauce
Spinach
Ham
Cheese

Basically I wanted to make a big vegetable bake as I'm pregnant and I don't eat vegetables. Too tired to cool every night and the size of the dish would make enough for a week


Any ideas?

abby1234519

Oh and I have pasta, and sausages

babyshoes

I would leave out the new potatoes since you already have sweet potatoes, and save some cheese to put on the top near the end of the cooking time, so you get a nice cheesy browned top on it.

Otherwise, I would expect it to be like most experimental cooking - at worst edible, at best quite nice. If you have any herbs / spices you usually like to put with tomatoey dishes, you may like to bung some in too, along with some seasoning, and maybe something like a dash of soy sauce or gravy browning. If you are thinking of putting pasta in it, remember to part-cook it first or it may still be crunchy when the veg is cooked, and don't add to much as it will dilute the flavours.

kunekune

Can I be honest? I think it sounds competely yuck. Too many different flavours, they'll clash, and although several of them are sweet they are sweet in different ways (also, I guess, I wouldn't eat tinned carrots or potatoes if you paid me, LOL).

Now, as to ways to use these. Sweet potatoes are lovely. Par-boil them and then put them in an oven dish with some honey and lemon and roast for about 20 minutes. I guess you could add the carrots, they would work with this.

Potatoes, spinach, cheese and ham go together.

I'd add mushrooms and maybe the peppers to the pasta sauce and use it to make a bake with cheese on top.

That leaves the ratatouille ... which I'd serve over baked potatoes.

I know you're feeling deprived of veges at the moment but I have a terrible feeling that if you get too, er, creative, you may not eat any until baby's two or three!

meritaten

I agree with above post - but would also point out that as you are pregnant, do NOT eat food which has been reheated more than once or is over three days old!
you have ingredients there for at least three dishes!
the ratatoulle - leave as is and serve with nice crusty bread. why mess with a good dish?
the sweet potato - yes a nice bake, I would slice it thinly, layer it with about a cupful of chicken stock (if you dont have a stock cube then use a little water, salt and pepper), top with a little cheese and bake in oven.
I would fry the mushrooms and red peppers in butter (or oil or marge) and cook the pasta, then combine them and sprinkle cheese on top, maybe flash it under a hot grill, delish!