Storecupboard Challenge - Stuffed Jackets

This will be my last post until next week as, by my reckoning I am doing days 6 and 7 today while tomorrow we are going to a graduation party. Friday through to Sunday we are at a wedding (more of which in a mo) which only leaves Thursday. I think I'll just throw handfuls of crisps and sweets onto the dining table for tea on Thursday - only joking!! The beauty of having great storecupboard items in means I'm never stuck - I've still got chorizo, some mushrooms, mince etc so can whip something up.

Back to the wedding. We have been looking forward to this for months and it isn't just a 'wedding day' its a whole bloomin wedding weekend. At Barnsley House. For the whole weekend! The lovely couple L & K are fab and really very generous, or mad or both! So no 'storecupboard challenge' for me for a few days, I'll be eating food other people have prepared - imagine that. I'll let you know how that feels!

Anyway back to the food. Monday's tea was easy, the leftover sauce and chicken made a pasta dish and today I had some jacket potatoes left and made stuffed jackets for the kids.

Stuffed Jackets

A baked potato, with a little butter added is the simplest meal ever – all you do is pop them in the oven and leave them to cook. However, for something a little different you can fill ‘em and grill ‘em!

Makes 4 potatoes

Bake 4 medium sized baking potatoes in a moderately hot oven for 1 to 1 ½ hours. Wash and prick them before baking and if you like rub with oil and sprinkle with salt.

Cheese, ham and onion

Cut your potatoes in half and scoop out the flesh into a mixing bowl. Add 1/4 chopped onion, 50g chopped ham, 1tbsp mayo or crème fraiche and 50g cheddar cheese. Season with salt and pepper if you like and mix together. Then spoon mixture back into the potato shells, sprinkle with a little more cheese and pop under the grill until golden brown.

Mushroom melt

As above but replace the ham with 150g chopped fried mushrooms. Season with salt and pepper if you like and mix together. Then spoon mixture back into the potato shells, sprinkle with a little more cheese and pop under the grill until golden brown.