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Bite Me The Show About Edibles
Spuds & Buds: Getting Baked with Infused Potatoes
Who says cannabis edibles need to be sweet? Venture beyond cookies and brownies as we explore the versatile world of cannabis infused ghee through three delicious potato preparations. In times of economic uncertainty, these humble spuds transform into affordable, effective vehicles for cannabinoids while satisfying savoury cravings.
Following our ingredient deep-dive on ghee, we're putting this clarified butter to work with roast potatoes, mashed potatoes, and the visually striking Hasselback potatoes. Each preparation showcases ghee's unique properties – its rich flavour, high smoke point, and excellent cannabinoid-carrying capacity. More importantly, these recipes demonstrate practical approaches to dosing that solve common edibles dilemmas, like how to serve mixed company with varying tolerance levels or preferences.
The episode addresses crucial technical considerations too, including optimal cooking temperatures to preserve THC potency and methods for individual dosing within shared meals. We also explore a question from a listener about using decarbed cannabis directly in food without infusing it into fat first – a technique that opens up even more culinary possibilities.
Whether you're an experienced edibles creator or just starting to experiment beyond pre-packaged products, these potato preparations offer accessible entry points to elevate your cannabis cuisine.
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Hello and welcome to episode 292. And today we are using ghee to do potatoes three different ways. Welcome to Bite Me, the show about edibles, where I help you take control of your high life. I'm your host and certified gonger, margaret, and I love helping cooks make safe and effective edibles at home. I'm so glad you're here. Welcome everyone to another fantastic episode of Bite Me the show about edibles, or Bite Me podcast, as many people like to call it.
Speaker 1:This is the podcast that explores the intersection of food culture and cannabis, helping cooks make great edibles at home A little radical self-reliance, if you will. And what are we making today? And why is this exciting? Because who doesn't love potatoes? And in this world of rising prices and economic uncertainty, well, we might need to make potatoes more of a staple of our diet, if you hadn't already. I do love a good potato cooked in a myriad of different ways, roast probably being my favorite. But for this one, I got a little creative and, of course, we're using ghee to make it, because I just did an ingredient deep dive a big bite on ghee last week, if you haven't yet listened to that episode. So I encourage you to check that one out to find out why ghee is so wonderful and such a great way to get your THC. I won't rehash that. Go check that out if you're interested.
Speaker 1:So, if you're listening to this for the first time, thank you for being here. I am so glad that you found me. However, it is that you found me, let me know if, with one of the fan mail, you can send me a text message or email me, and if you've been here for a little while. I appreciate you listening. Thank you so much. It really means a lot, because otherwise I'd be sitting here talking to myself, and a lot of times that's exactly what it feels like that I'm sitting here talking to myself. However, if you enjoy the show, please consider leaving a review, a five-star review. It does help spread the word and, of course, share the show with somebody in your life that is also a cannabis and or edibles lover, although I guess they would probably be an edibles lover.
Speaker 1:However, there are several interviews that would be wonderful for those who are not really necessarily into edibles themselves, but interested in cannabis as a topic, and you can always go to the website. There is, under the cannabis resources section, a list of all the podcast guests that have ever appeared on the show and I am proud to say I've had about 60 guests on this show at this point. It's one of my favorite parts about the show. To be honest, I love doing the solo episodes, but doing the interviews is really a highlight for me because I get to learn brand new things and share them with you folks. We are learning together brand new things and share them with you folks. We are learning together Before we get into today's meat and potatoes.
Speaker 1:That's a cheesy joke if I ever heard one, but I couldn't resist. I just wanted to share a couple of questions that I got, a couple of emails and fan mails. The first one comes from Jamie and she says hi, margaret, I just found your Bite Me podcast. I'm located in South Carolina. Question for you about edibles Can you use decarbed flour in cooking without having it combined with a fat already?
Speaker 1:For example, could I take my decarbed flour and sprinkle it onto some veggies I'm cooking, versus cooking them with my can of butter? And that's a really great question If we know that cannabis is activated through the decarb because we've applied some heat to our dried cannabis, which will activate it. Same thing happens when you fire up that joint. It's the heat you're applying to the joint that is going to activate the cannabis, which will allow you to get high. So, if we've already done the decarb process, do we really need to add it to a fat? And the short answer is no, you don't. It is actually ready to use and will get you high.
Speaker 1:Now, of course, there's lots of reasons why you might want to infuse it into a fat, and that's because you can easily add it to a broader range of recipes. But that doesn't mean you can't take some of that decarbed cannabis, sprinkle it on your veggies, sprinkle it on your salad, put it in some salad dressing. I've used it right in the dough for some cookies, like I mixed it in with the, the, the decarbed cannabis, and with the flour, and not using it as a, as an infusion, like you traditionally would. So, yeah, there's lots of reasons why you might not want to. Maybe you just don't have time or energy, and I can fully appreciate that. So, yes, if you have decarb weed, especially if you use a dry herb vaporizer, like I love to use a Pax, I have a Pax 3. They've since come out with some new models, but they have a 10-year warranty, so I probably won't be replacing the one that I'm enjoying anytime soon. However, the spent cannabis that comes out of that little device I save up and I can use in edibles as well, and because that's already decarbed, you can make use of that immediately without having to infuse it. So why not? I mean, it's not going to hurt. The only thing you might find is that bit of you know, toasted taste of decarbed cannabis. So if you're mixing it with something that can mask the taste or you don't mind, then I say why not?
Speaker 1:The next question comes from a listener in Hungary and they're asking do you have a cookbook? And the short answer to that is also yes. Yes, I do. If you head over to my website, there's a pop-up that will often show up that will say you can join my mailing list for the cookbook. It's also in the Bite Me Cannabis Club, so you can access it there as well if you're a member of the club. Just a couple of questions I got in recently. Thank you for your questions, folks. I love it when people send me questions and, if you want to, don't be shy. I love to hear from listeners because it's a nice reminder that, yes, there are people on the other end listening.
Speaker 1:Now for this particular episode, we are going into doing potatoes three ways using ghee. Now, I admit, when I first thought about doing this recipe or this, this episode, if you will it was a large part because last week I did the ingredient big bite or deep dive or whatever you want a catchy thing you want to call it and I did on the subject of ghee, and I had done an episode a long time ago around infusing ghee, because I have, at this point, have infused all the fats. Ghee is a wonderful one to do Duck fat, olive oil, avocado oil, coconut oil, mct oil, milk and cream. Actually, I think it was always cream, not milk, because if I'm gonna do the milk, I'm gonna do the good shit, the really rich stuff that I'm probably not supposed to be drinking Butter. What else is there? What have I missed? I've probably infused it, but ghee is a really interesting fat, so that's why I wanted to highlight it with this sort of ingredient deep dive.
Speaker 1:But then, once you have the ghee, you're kind of like, well, what do you do with it? There's a million things you can do with it, because you can pretty much use ghee in a lot of your cooking. As you would butter, I could have made cookies and just swapped out butter for ghee instead, but I've done cookies so many times on this show and I wasn't really feeling cookies lately. I have some other edibles that I'm enjoying right now, because I always have some edibles kicking around unsurprisingly and I just didn't want to go for the sweets again because I know there's a lot of folks out there that may not share the sweet tooth that I have. So I'm trying to branch out friends and I'm trying to do something that will excite the taste buds of those who don't necessarily have a sweet tooth and who doesn't love potatoes? Who doesn't love potatoes? Well, if you don't, I'm sorry. This is not the episode for you. Now I have to admit it is potatoes done three ways, but in full disclosure. A lot of. When I did that episode on infusing ghee a while ago, I also did an episode on Hasselbeck potatoes and I used ghee for that particular recipe. So I'm going to kind of include that as one of the options. So, basically, the three types of potatoes we're looking at today are roast potatoes, mashed potatoes and Hasselback potatoes. The Hasselback potatoes are really fun to make and they're visually interesting to look at.
Speaker 1:Mashed potatoes I hardly ever make and I had made mashed potatoes for this particular episode for the first time in years. I think the last time I made it, made mashed potatoes was maybe 10 years ago, because there was a period in time when I was doing Christmas dinners for two sides of the family, because we would have both sides of the family, because we would have both sides of the family over on for one Christmas dinner instead of having to host two. And some of those dinners those years got really large, like. I like to remember them as like 30, 35 people, which for me, for cooking, was a lot. I'm not really accustomed to cooking for that many people I don't know how many people are but because it was two sides of the family and both sides of the family tended to have very distinct preferences, I found myself making doubles of a lot of things. I made two types of cranberry because some of the folks liked it right out of the can and some preferred it not. I made two types of gravy. I made two types of stuffing and would make two types of potatoes. Thank God I'm not doing that shit anymore. That's all I can say.
Speaker 1:However, a good mashed potato. Even though it's probably been it feels, like a decade since I've made them, I realized how easy they are and I've maybe been missing out. So I'm kind of glad that I've rediscovered the classic mashed potato. And of course, there is the roast potato, which is my go-to and something I cook often, especially in the wintertime. I suppose you could do these fried potatoes as well if you wanted to, maybe.
Speaker 1:This is four ways potatoes with ghee. So there's a lot of different ways you can use ghee for potatoes and I have to say that the ghee added a real richness and a real richness to the potatoes. That I really appreciated and it was lovely. And as far as roasting with, as in the Hasselback and the roast potatoes, it really helped to crisp them up a lot as well and add that rich flavor to them and you add salt and voila, you have something really special.
Speaker 1:I just took some potatoes. They ended up being relatively small potatoes. I bought a five pound bag of potatoes recently and I should have looked at it more. It looked like there was some bigger potatoes in it, but alas, they are more like the fingerling type small Often. That's not my favorite kind because I find washing and peeling those can be quite tedious, although it wasn't too bad. So maybe because I wasn't doing them all at once but I made the roast potatoes, I cut them, I quartered the potatoes and then put them in a bowl and then I put some ghee all over them. I warmed it up a bit so it melted, and then I roasted them in the oven Now I did it at 350, just so that it wouldn't degrade any of the cannabis that was in my infusion and I roasted them until they were tender and could pierce them with the fork and had some nice browning on them.
Speaker 1:I really love it when they have the browning on them. If they don't have that, you got to leave them in for a little bit longer. It can take a little bit longer, but the nice thing about roast potatoes is you can sort of prep them, throw them in the oven and then you can, you know, walk away and then if you're preparing something else, you can do that while those are in the oven, cooking away. And then for the mashed potatoes these were peeled quarter well, I guess quarter or halved and then I boiled them for 20 minutes until they were fork tender and then I mashed them added a little bit of milk.
Speaker 1:I added some uninfused ghee for this particular one, because I was infusing the mashed potatoes just for myself. So I added the infused ghee to my serving afterwards. So I still got there. Everyone still got the richness of the potatoes with the ghee. Mine was the only one that had the dosing in it as far as the potatoes went. So that's pretty important to remember who you're dosing, because there may be people that you're dining with that don't appreciate the edibles as much as you do, which is a shame, of course. But to each their own. We have to accept that we all have different preferences. So that's another reason why I liked the mashed potatoes, because it is a pretty easy recipe to sort of infuse on your own and you can dose it for different tastes.
Speaker 1:And then finally well, I shouldn't say finally, because we may have added a fourth way to do potatoes but the Hasselback potatoes you just preheat your oven and you. So the reason I didn't make it this time, even though I had recently, recently discovered, or I had done this episode a long time ago, around ghee and Hasselback potatoes specifically. I mean, when you have a catalog of 292 episodes, you sometimes forget what you've already done. You basically take a large potato and you put really narrow slits in the top, all the way along the one side of the potato, and then you brush it with your ghee, salt it and then you throw it in the oven for a little while it's going to take a little longer than your roast potato and then it comes out crispy and delicious and it looks really interesting because of the way that it's been cooked with those slices in the potatoes. I'll be sure to add photos to the show notes for this so that you can see what it looks like, and you'll probably want to try it out. I think I'll be sure to add photos to the show notes for this so that you can see what it looks like and you'll probably want to try it out. I think I'll be trying it out again. I just have to dig in the bag and see if I can find a big enough potato, because the ones in the bag right now are not big enough to do these Hasselback potatoes, and they're pretty fun.
Speaker 1:And another beauty of that particular style of potato is, if you have a couple of them, you can always brush your infused ghee on afterwards as well, when it's hot and melt it on top. If you want to have individually dosed potatoes, and if you're not too concerned about that, of course you can do that during the baking process. But that is a fun way to individually dose each tater. And then of course, there's frying. But you know, if I was going to do a fried potato like french fries or something like that, you could do it in infused ghee, but I think you would get a lot of waste as well. So and usually it has to be at a relatively high heat, so you could do your potatoes in uninfused ghee and then well, I don't even know if I would use ghee afterwards, I would probably use an infused ketchup I just did an episode not that long ago on an infused curry ketchup, but any infused ketchup would do and then you can get your dosing that way. So that might be preferable for the fourth way of doing potatoes with ghee. So you know what? Maybe it's technically three and a half ways of doing potatoes, because you're not necessarily using the infused ghee to do a fried potato.
Speaker 1:Those are the different ways you can use ghee to make potatoes and it really does make them taste rich and delicious and savory, and they're so good and, of course, having a good recipe, no matter how simple it is, because we often think of edibles and we think of something you know complicated and tricky to do or really involved, and sometimes it's as simple as sprinkling some decarbed cannabis on something that you're cooking. Or it is as simple as using an infusion that you've tried and mixing it with vegetables that everybody can access, like the potato. So some of the common cooking mistakes you're going to want to avoid is, if you're using an infusion, is cooking it at too high a temperature that is going to degrade the THC in your infusion? Now I'd have to recall but if I do recall, anything over 400, like you're probably pretty safe at 400 degrees, but anything over that you may be experiencing some degradation in the infusion and you want to try and avoid that. So just bear that in mind. When you're cooking things, especially if you're roasting, sometimes the temptation is to cook it at a higher temperature to speed up the cooking process, and I can appreciate that. But in this particular instance, if you're using a precious infusion, you're going to want to lower that temperature a little bit, extend the cooking time, and that way you're going to want to lower that temperature a little bit, extend the cooking time, and that way you're going to preserve your infusion and the cannabis, thc or CBD therein.
Speaker 1:So I guess my question to you is how is, what is your favorite way to do potatoes and how would you infuse them or make or do individual dosing and, if you let me know, I can share it on the show? I find it really interesting to learn how other people are doing their infusions and dosing their foods, especially when we're getting more into the realm of the everyday and when I say everyday I just mean like infusing meals, because I feel like it is a little more. It is a little different. It's a little different than just making a batch of cookies and then eating a cookie at whatever point during your day. And the advantage of a meal is you can infuse multiple servings at a time, and sometimes that makes it a disadvantage because you're serving it to people who don't all have the same tolerance level as you do. So let me know, I would love to hear it.
Speaker 1:And, of course, if you head over to join BiteMecom and you learn more about the Bite Me Cannabis Club, we can talk about it more over there as well, because that's where there's a lot of discussion happening about the podcast episodes and all kinds of other things as well. I do have a couple of interviews coming up that I'm excited about. One is already in the can, as we like to say in the podcasting biz, and another one I'm about to do. I'm really excited about those episodes, one with Michael DeVellier and Vanessa Labarado. So that is something to look forward to coming up in the not too distant future.
Speaker 1:And, of course, if you have anybody that you would like me to interview, let me know, because I am not shy to ask folks, even though sometimes those requests don't get a response. That's happened to me lots of times, but it's surprising sometimes the number of people that do respond and say, yeah, sure, because Bite Me, bite Me is a whole mood. It applies to so many different situations it can be like. Sometimes I think Bite Me is kind of like, is kind of like the F-bomb. It can apply in a lot of different ways and yet it's a lot less offensive, so it makes it even more versatile. So let me know how you're using Bite Me in your life. I think that's it for this week, my friends. Let me know what else you're using ghee for, if at all, if you tried that infusion, because I am curious, I am planning to do another recipe with it and I would love to hear.
