Categories: Mark Bittman, Potatoes, Side Dish
Ingredients
- 4 baking potatoes
- salt
- black pepper
- 8 bay leaves
- 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil (or melted butter)
Directions
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Preheat oven to 400°.
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Make a deep slit lengthwise in each potato, almost to the point of cutting it in half.
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Sprinkle salt and pepper inside the potatos and tuck in the bay leaves, 2 per potato.
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Put the potatoes in a baking dish and drizzle with olive oil, smearing some on the insides as well as making sure the outsides are well coated.
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Push the potato halves back together; sprinkle their outsides with salt and pepper.
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Bake for about 1 hour; the potatoes are done when you can easily poke a thin-bladed knife right through them; serve immediately.