Tonight I feel like a right little multitasker - mainly down to the fact that as I cooked dinner I was also creating one of the key ingredients in my next bit of baking at exactly the same time. What is this magic ingredient I hear you ask? Potatoes, glorious red skinned potatoes! Dinner consisted of pizza - a specialty of mine - pizza base with Edam cheese, mozzerella (I sub'd this for brie coz I had no moz), cherry toms, and basil pesto as a toppin and baked potato skins. Skins, nothing but! All crispy'd up and dipped into sour cream and chili sauce - so it was sarcastically healthy meal - it was a real treat.
The problem with skins is what to do with the flesh - if you really had to ask - mash!! The monsta mash! Urgh flashbacks to a terrible christmas panto held in the wop wops last year! The potatoes that I used were awesome they were so floury that they almost mashed themselves!!
Now I can see what you're thinking HOW Fozzie are you going to use mash potato in your baking? You might think - potato bread - NO! One thing you should know about me - I very rarely bake savoury stuff with the exception of my Mum's pesto tart and my version - pesto tartlets - there is a difference and Mum said she like my tartlets better - but I digress yet again.
No, the next bit of baking shall be a very New Zealand Boston Bun not to be confused with what we have in the supermarkets here in NZ they are actually according to the source - Sally Lunds because they only use flour. A true NZ Boston Bun uses - you guessed it POTATO! Now I preface this with NZ not US as I have an inkling that Boston Buns in the US are pastries that are filled with cream and custard topped with chocolate - The NZ Bun does not have any of this!
ALSO I have made these before - I had a time when thats all I made for half a year. They are good value for money because they make two cakes. And as NZ Boston Bun etiquette goes you make one for yourself (to give to others when visiting) and one to give away.
Anyway, I shall make, bake and post back laters. Happy thinking, Fozzie
The first one is in the oven - I only have one cake pan so it takes time! AND they're Gluten Free (esp for Animal!)
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