Cooking with Kids: Give those big potatoes a good roasting

"When we were children, my siblings and I loved to scoop out the inside of a baked potato and mix it with grated cheese and ham, we stuffed this mixture back into the skins and then baked them again until the cheese was nicely melted."

Sat, 04 Nov, 2023 - 02:00

Michelle Darmody

Michelle Darmody is a baking expert and writer, as well as an award-winning author. Michelle works across food education, sustainability and food policy and has a Doctorate in Culinary Arts.

Big gnarly potatoes are great for baking, you can rub with some oil into their skin so it crips up nicely, while the insides become fluffy and soft.

When we were children, my siblings and I loved to scoop out the inside of a baked potato and mix it with grated cheese and ham, we stuffed this mixture back into the skins and then baked them again until the cheese was nicely melted.