Baked-for-Dinner Potatoes

The starch of a baked potato is comfortingly filling, its aroma a soothing experience, and its sweet fluffy texture mixes and matches with just about anything. This vegetable stir-fry is my favorite topping because it yields natural juices which the potatoes just sop up. See more suggestions at the end of the recipe.

Although this usually suffices for dinner, sometimes I precede it with a vegetable salad or, on days when I’m feeling hungrier, a lentil, split-pea, or bean soup.