Today at Kolby's school we celebrated the March birthdays of the faculty and staff and had a potato bar to supplement their lunch. We do something like this every month. These events are a favorite part of my Teacher Appreciation chair job for PTA. This month I picked a "This Spuds for You!" & Mr Potato head theme and coordinated with the Kindergarten parents to bring all the food. The Kindergarten coordinator and all the parents did a fantastic job! They brought all sorts of good toppings for the potatoes like steamed broccoli, chili, salsa and queso along with the normal chives, butter, sour cream, bacon bits and shredded cheese. This was one of my favorite events to date! See how it turned out below.
Last night I rolled and wrapped about 100 potatoes. Seriously! Since I don't really bake potatoes often ( I microwave them!) I called on the experts at Outback to tell me how to do bake potatoes. The manager told me to spray or roll them in butter flavored oil, roll them in sea salt, wrap then in foil and cook them directly on the racks at 350 for an hour to an hour & 1/2. Well I did just what he said. I woke up early this morning to turn on my two ovens and my Moms oven across the street. It worked perfectly! The potatoes were really good. They stayed warm in big coolers all day and the teachers loved them!
Problem is, it now looks like I made salt maps on the bottoms and sides of all three ovens. The Outback guy never mentioned that! Somehow the steam from the potatoes mixed with the sea salt, condensed on the sides and bottom, and baked into a great big mess! So if you use this method to cook potatoes, I suggest you put a pan underneath them! I guess I'll stop blogging now and start cleaning! :) Happy Thursday!
Twin messes in my double ovens!
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That is a great theme! I'm going to use it and pretend that it was original with me!!!
Fine by me TL! It was really fun to do! Next month we are having Easter Sundaes (as in ice cream) and in May we are doing "Watta Great Year" with Watermelons! I love these little events!
I am so thankful that you use your gifts to encourage teachers at school--they so deserve it--and I believe you honor God by doing it! You are so creative!
What a neat idea! And it looked so pretty!
But how funny about the salted potato mess. No offense, but the pictures look like giant slugs crawled out of the oven. LOLOL!
So cute! Remember this for me for a year or so so when I say 'yeah uh that really cool monthly birthday idea thing; uh do you remember what it was so I can do it too?'
Thanks in advance!
Tracy
I am going to have to try the baked potato recipe. Sounds delicious!
You are so creative. How wonderful for those teachers. They are lucky to have you around.
It looks like the event went great! I'd love to hear more about how your PTA is organized. I may be working with mine more next year and could sure use some help from someone more experienced! I know one of our VP's organizes things similar to this lunch for the teachers every so often, but I'm not sure how often.
Thanks for your prayers....I can't wait to make little potato people for my babies....If they will ever come out!!
What a great idea! You are such a blessing to your school and the teachers (who have the most important job in the world).
That is so cool you ran into Tracy! I would love to meet all of you in person someday too. Maybe at Zoe?
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