Caveman steak with jacket potato poutine

Stormbringer

Having just spent 3 weeks in BC and sampling a lot of good poutine, I wondered what could be done differently to improve upon this classic Canadian side dish ... or, in some places, main course. Simple ... jacket potato poutine. The concept is simple, bake a potato, cut it open, add in the cheese curds (we used shredded mozzarella as a substitute) and pour over the gravy. 

I cooked the potatoes wrapped in foil directly on the coals of the MMX for an hour at 400F, turning after 30 mins. As there were hot coals in the MMX, when the potatoes were done I cranked up the heat to 600F. Seared on both sides (without butter this time), came out fantastic. SWMBO had hers cooked on cast iron, I thought mine tasted better. Served with creamed spinach and a delicious Chianti. 

Wrapped and cooking, I lightly brushed with EVOO and salted before going in:

Potatoes out, steak on:

Steak looking good with creamed spinach in the background:

The jacket potato poutine ... I part quartered the potato, added a knob of butter to the middle, decanted the cheese into the slices and poured over the gravy:

Non-Egg related ... the moon was once again showing well, I used an extender on my scope to get this shot.

Thanks for looking!

JohnInCarolina

Botch

Proper Caveman, and I love the baked potato poutine idea!  

shtgunal3

Bravo, good sir, Bravo!!!!!!!

Paolo

Talking about a standalone-worthy post? This is it!
Great cook, informative and detailed description, and top quality pictures!
Add in an astrophoto and you've completely won me over!

johnmitchell

Good grief!!!😋😋😋😋

bluebird66

That looks great!

Buckwoody Egger

now that’s a nice nice nice cook. so nice i said it thrice

thank you for the time temp on the taters. have struggled with potato cook times and that’s good to know. confirms to start way early or just microwave some too

Stormbringer

Thanks folks

@Buckwoody Egger potatoes are ready when they reach 200F - 205F, definitely worth using a temperature probe if you have one, I have an very thin one that pierced the foil easily.

@Paolo the moon pic was taken using an IPhone 15 Pro Max mounted on a spotting scope. 

Buckwoody Egger

i used to do trays of baked potatoes in a restaurant job (along with all the other potato permutations). it seems like i would remember or at least bother to google it!!!  congrats again on the cook and upon reread i noticed the caveman vs cast iron note!!

bubbajack

Nice!