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Quicker Baked Potato

Try this method for speeding up the potato baking process (for a better texture than those that you microwave). Pre-heat the oven to 400. Place the potato in boiling water for 10 minutes. Bake for 30 minutes. This will cut the cooking time in half.

 

A Lucky Accident


appetizers, soups, vegetables

3 small carrots, diced
2 small parsnips, diced
1 medium turnip, cut in chunks
2 each celery stalks, diced
1 celery leaves from
1 large onion, stuck with 2 cloves
1 can tomatoes with liquid
1 can tomato paste
1 small bn flat-leaf parsley
1 each bay leaf
1 fresh rosemary and thyme
1 black peppercorns

Put 3 quarts of water in the bottom of a large stock pot with a pasta insert. Add the tomato liquid and tomato paste. Put all of the other ingredients in the pasta insert. Bring to a boil over high heat, lower the heat, cover and simmer for about 3 hours. Lift out the pasta insert, letting out the liquid fall back into the pot. Press down on the solids to extract as much liquid as possible and return all the liquid to the pot. Discard the solids. Note: This started out to be vegetable stock to use up some leftover stuff I had on hand, but after I strained the stock I decided to use it as a cooking liquid for pasta. The pasta thickened and flavored the stock to such an extent that I decided to save the leftovers to use as a tomato-vegetable soup. I may add some vegetables and small pasta to that. Recipe by Diane Lazarus