Leftover jacket potato

[CharlotteDoyle]

Inspired by the recent jacket potato thread I made some yesterday for me and DH. It was our first time ever making OR eating them (!) and they were... bloody delicious. Butter, cheese, tuna mayo and spring onion, if you are wondering. I am eternally indebted to whichever MNer recommended it.

But we have 1 huge roasted potato left over. I wrapped it up and popped it on the fridge.

Potato lovers, please give me some ideas for using it up. Can I re-heat it in the oven and treat it like a freshly roasted one? Or will it be irretrievably soggy..?

I've always known them as baked potatoes. I just pretend to go along with the jacket potato thing so people don't feel bad about themselves. It's like the cream on a scone thing but that is absolutely wrong and needs calling out <grabs coat and heads for the door>

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@AlisonDonut
I'm in the Hauts de France which is potato country.
We use Binjte variety for baked potatoes. They are lovely and fluffy.

I grow bintje, in fact I planted more today.

But they just aren't as good as a good old UK baked spud esp one of the huge ones that take an hour and a half to cook.

I always do extras when I cook jackets. I then put them into a old chinese take-away container, butter, pepper and either baked beans and cheese for Dh, or cheese and pepper for me. Perfect for a work lunch the next day. Or better still, Into the freezer they go, then you have a work lunch, anytime, defrosts in time for lunch, heat up in microwave. Perfect. I often have 4 stored in the freezer.

I drove past a spud-u-like shop the other day. I balked. Made me all warm and fussy, from the 80's.

I use any leftover jacket or roast potatoes as a puff tart topping. Unroll 1 sheet of pre rolled puff pastry, fry some onions til caramelised and spread over the pastry. Scatter over small cubes of leftover cooked potatoes and then grate or crumble over your cheese of choice. Add a few sage leaves if you're fancy and/or have a giant sage bush in the garden. Also an excellent way to use up leftover roast dinner veg - potatoes/carrots/parsnips.

Your colleague is weird. Jacket potatoes are widely available in the US, although they're called baked potatoes. While they might not eat them with baked beans, tuna mayo or others fillings as many in the UK, they're often served with a steak.

Jackie Kennedy loved them and had them often, always with sour cream and caviar!

I find reheats have a funny taste. I can even smell the funny taste. I have to eat them fresh.

I like cold jacket potatoes that have been left out on the counter overnight - not fridged - simply sliced and buttered as if they were bread. Salted butter, of course. Mmmmm