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Potato Skins. Ms. Magel
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POTATO SKINS

Preheat oven to 450°
Serves 4-6 people

mts:

4 baking potatoes
Cooking oil

3 cups grated mild cheddar
cheese
1 cup sour cream
3 stems green onions
salt & pepper
*Crumbled cooked bacon
may be added over cheese if
preferred.

Scrub potatoes, dry them
and prick with a fork. Place
on oven rack for 1 hour.

Cut green onions into
small circles and mix with
sour cream. Refrigerate.

Grate cheddar cheese.

When potatoes are done,
slice lengthwise and scoop
out potato with spoon
leaving very little filling.

Heat oil until very hot (I
use an electric wok).

Place potatoes in oil
making sure oil fills potato

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NATCHITOCHES, La.
(UPI) - The meat pie’s
origins are shrouded = in

history, lost in the days when
Indian met Spaniard in the
forests around the oldest set-
tlement in the Louisiana Pur-
chase.

But James Lasyone is sure
of at least two things.

People were making and
selling meat pies around Nat-
chitoches when he took his
first steps off the farm nearly
half a century ago. And to-
day he sells nearly 160,000 of
the delicacies every year.

“My family was sharecrop-
pers,” said Lasyone, who
started Lasyone's Meat Pie
Kitchen with a one-cyed gas
stove and a single iron pot.
“We walked into town on
Saturdays and there would
be people with little carts,
pushing them up and down

YORE N

Spicing up history

the street.

“I talk to people much
older and as far back as they
can remember they've had
meat pies. But until I opened
my kitchen here, people
made them in their homes
and sald them in their
homes.”

The Meat Pie Kitchen in
the old downtown strip along
the Cane River has become
something of a landmark in
recent years — a haven for
busloads of tourists, as well
as for travelers armed with
ice chests for long-distance
takcout orders.

“Travel agencies call us
from all over the United
States,” he said. “We have
buses booked year-round,
sometimes a ycar in ad-
vance. If they're traveling in
this part of the country, they
try to book at least one meal

with us.”
Lasyone serves more than
meat pies -— his New

Orleans-style red beans and
rice are big sellers, too —
but it is the speciality that
keeps his place on the tourist
map

For $5.95, visitors can
dine on a combination salad,
dirty rice, the meat pic, a
slice of Cane River cream
pie and coffee or tea. The

rice dish gets its name from .

one ingredient, chopped
chicken giblets. The meat
pies, spiced beef and pork
folded into a fried pastry,
can be purchased for $1.30
in the restaurant and $1.10
to go.

According to Lasyonce, the
meat pics are tasty -—- even
to strangers from Boston,
Spokane or Sault Ste. Maric.

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skin.

Cook each skin in oil for
approximately 1 minute.

Place all skins on a baking
tray and fill with cheddar
cheese.

Put in oven at 450° until
cheese is melted and bub-
bling.

Serve immediately on
plate with sour cream for
dipping.

This is my own recipe.
After trying potato skins at
several restaurants I wanted
to make them for guests and
I must say they are a big hit.
I don't add the bacon bits as
I'm a vegetarian and the
skins are just as good
without them!

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