Reuben Twice-baked Potatoes I Made It

Reuben Twice-baked Potatoes

pointsevenout 11 years ago
Recipe by Crabhappychick: Reuben Twice Baked Potatoes
It's a good recipe although it does not include the instructions on baking the potatoes.
Only used half the potato meat as there was going to be no way to get all the stuffing mixture back into the skins if I used all the potato meat. Worked out just neat.
Didn't and probably couldn't get the Russian dressing in my neck of the woods. It would have gone a long way to upholding the look and feel of the Reuben. I've had it before and do like the flavor but I'd have better luck using thousand island dressing, which I didn't do either. I even order the Russian dressing when I go out to a sit down restaurant, most of the time to no avail. I have a nice homemade creamy buttermilk dressing that I used.
It gets 4-stars only because of a couple lines of missing instructions.
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frankieanne 11 years ago said:

What is that you put on the top? Sour cream?
You need to add the four stars, too, to the recipe. :)
Looks like Russian dressing is pretty close to Thousand. I think Thousand usually has relish and chopped hard boiled egg. Russian's ingredients are pretty common:

1 cup mayonnaise
1/4 cup prepared chili sauce
1 teaspoon onion, minced
1 teaspoon horseradish
1/4 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1 tablespoon parsley, minced
1/2 teaspoon paprika

Got that at food.com. Looks good. I may have to mix up a batch.

I guess you had some corn beef to use in this recipe?

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mommyluvs2cook 11 years ago said:

Yeah, did you use your own corned beef? I so wish I could use sauekraut in meals. That dressing sounds delicious!!!

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pointsevenout 11 years ago said:

It is a Creamy Buttermilk Dressing. I make it all the time. There are a couple of Russian dressing recipes here at GR. One reviewed one not. Didn't think to look it up as I had the buttermilk dressing on hand already. Had to buy some corned beef and Swiss from the store.
Had some ingredients left over and made a couple of corned beef on homemade rye sammies for dinner. I know I forgot to rate the recipe. I'll do it next time I have to go back to the recipe page. I noted the recipe rating on this string because of that boo-boo.

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pointsevenout 11 years ago said:

That's a good idea of making my own corned beef. It can't be that hard and would save bucks. St. Patrick's Day is coming up soon. I'm off to do some research.

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pointsevenout 11 years ago said:

Scratch the home made corned beef idea. Seems that all the stores in my neck of the woods charge more for raw brisket than already cured brisket. Ain't that bass-ackwards? Was having trouble locating a couple of ingredients anyway; juniper berries and sodium nitrate aka curing salt, pink salt, or salt peter. Why fight it when I would be spending more money to do the home made brisket.

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frankieanne 11 years ago said:

I don't think I've ever seen a brisket here. Unless we call it something else here on the west coast.

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pointsevenout 11 years ago said:

Nope. It should be called a brisket, square cut (flat cut) or point cut. Square cut is better. Should be right there next to the corned beef briskets in your local store's meat market section, not the deli section.
There was a time in my life I would have the deli slice up a whole corned beef ham, take it home and gorge myself on Reubens then do it again and again. Those poor meat handlers behind the deli counter would loth to see me coming because their meat slicers didn't have an automatic function and they had to hand crank out an entire ham at once.
Have to be careful about picking out those selections of corned beef. Some brands have way too much salt and aren't pleasant to eat but find the right brand and it's such a pleasure to eat.
I'll stop rambling now.

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mommyluvs2cook 11 years ago said:

Brisket here is cheap when it goes on sale... look out for that points. Do you have an HEB? They can get really cheap there, and if you can find a good meat market I see it's a good deal there too....

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pointsevenout 11 years ago said:

Closest butcher shop is a scant 100 miles away. Cost of gas puts the price of meat over the top. No kosher deli's or, as you put it, HEBs or meat markets in this one horse town. We have a Public's, Walmart's, and Piggly Wiggly.

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mommyluvs2cook 11 years ago said:

Piggly Wiggly?! Never heard of that one lol!

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pointsevenout 11 years ago said:

I'm kinda' ashamed of that name. Reflects a stoopid image on southerners.

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keni 11 years ago said:

I'm not ashamed of the name. It's been around SOOO long!! And it was a pioneer in the supermarket business. :)

Piggly Wiggly has certainly been the butt of jokes in movies, etc, for it's name, but it's history is a good one.

I go there just so I can tell my Yankee friends that's where I shop. hehehe

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lovebreezy 11 years ago said:

We never had (in my lifetime) Piggly Wigglys here but I always loved the name. Piggly Wiggly vs. Whole Foods, now which name sounds friendly and which a bit stuck up? :-)

As far as the Corned Beef, I have this recipe but it's too late for this St. Pat's Day. I always have gotten the Salt Peter in the pharmacy but have not needed to buy it in a few years so just don't know if it's still available--perhaps special order. Breezy Way To Corn Beef Venison Or Other Game

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mommyluvs2cook 11 years ago said:

Is Piggly Wiggly kinda like a Buckeys?

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mrpiggy 11 years ago said:

PIGGLY WIGGLY??????????? I LOVE that name!! : )

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lovebreezy 11 years ago said:

This little MrPiggy went to Piggly Wiggly; this little piggy stayed home...

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mrpiggy 11 years ago said:

hehe, LB : )

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