Making a Baked Potato

Cooking baked potatoes for lunch or dinner

Month 11 · Activity 16 · Cooking

At beginning of month place on calendar "Potato Night"
Select a brown baking potato (Russet, etc.) and have child rinse and scrub with water to get it clean
Dry the potato, poke deeply several times with fork all over the potato and rub skin with olive oil (butter, vegetable oil, etc) Place in a regular oven on middle rake and bake 45 minutes at 400 degrees (longer if more potatoes in oven) or about 10 minutes in microwave
Potato is done when internal temperature is 210 degrees or squeezes in the middle to your touch (hot pad) or fork can be inserted easily into potato
Serve with favorite ingredients (butter, bacon, cheese, steamed vegetables or meat, etc.)
Potato Night is an easy way to get child involved in cooking
Substitute a sweet potato for a healthier option

brown baking potatoes/or sweet potato
sink, scrubber to wash and clean potato
fork
oil/butter (optional)
oven
toppings: butter, bacon, cheese, steamed vegetables, meat, sour cream/plain yogurt, etc.