- Alpine Pepper Potato Bake
You can't get a much more Aussie potato recipe than Alpine pepper potato bake. Australians can make this entirely from local produce using Robertson potatoes, Illawarra butter, native Alpine pepper and yakijirri made from bush tomatoes that are found nowhere else in the world
- Baked Potato Adelaide
This microwave recipe for baked potato was given me by a cook who learned his trade on the cattle droving trails.
- Baked Potato (M)
Baking a potato in the microwave is quick, easy and retains far more of the nutrients than with conventional cooking. The only difference in quality is that potato skins cooked in the microwave do not go crisp
- Camp Oven Potato
This is another potato dish from the Australia bush, given to me by Tony Smyth and I’m passing it on to you just as he wrote it. Tony used to be guide and cook on a coach tour of the Outback
- Cheesy Potato Bake
This potato dish is an easy variation on the basic recipe. As well as sliced potato it calls for the addition of sliced onion and grated cheese.
- Dutch Oven Potatoes
This is an interesting little potato recipe for those of you who enjoy the great outdoors. You don't have to use a Dutch oven, of course, the recipe adapts easily for the home kitchen, but you'll probably have a lot more fun if you do.
- Hasselback's Potatoes
Hasselback's potatoes come from a restaurant of the same name in Stockholm, Sweden. While I don't pretend this is necessarily the original recipe, it has to be very close and is certainly worth doing.
- Mashed Potato Bake
This is an interesting variation on the standard methods of baking potato in that it is already cooked before it goes into the oven and ends up as a kind of souffle. It's very rich and therefore a good festive dish.
- Potato and Cabbage Salad
Potato is often used in salads but is usually served cold. This is a hot salad and the addition of cabbage and cheese makes it substantial enough for a family meal
- Potato Boulangere
Boulangére, you may know, is the French word for baker, and this potato recipe is so-called because it once used to be cooked in the baker’s oven after bread making had finished for the day
- Potato Cups
Potato cups have many uses from serving as starters to providing a novel way of presenting vegetables. The trick is to get them crisp in the first place, and that is very easy to do
- Potato Dauphinois
Escoffier, the great French chef is credited with this potato dish which he called ‘gratin Dauphinois’. I’m not certain he created it originally, but the recipe I give below is certainly his
- Potato Savoyard
If you think this potato dish looks a lot like Escoffier’s gratin Dauphinois you would be right. The only difference is the substitution of consommé for scalded milk or cream
- Potato Souffle
If the thought of attempting a soufflé gives you nightmares, try this very simple potato recipe as a starter. It could lead you to greater things
- Potato Straws
If you find it difficult to think beyond potato chips and beer nuts for snacking with pre-dinner drinks, here's a suggestion that might help out. Potato straws are quick and easy to make, and delicious.
- Sliced Potato Bake
This easy potato bake is also the basic recipe for classic dishes such as Potato Lyonnaise. Master this, and you’ve mastered them all
- Smashed Potatoes
This is a novel way of presenting baked potatoes and one that I use for the barbecue in particular. It's a bit of fun and you will find the kids more than willing to help out with the last bit
