4 lg Baking potatoes Salt & pepper to taste 1/2 c Onion, yellow, chopped 1/2 c Mushrooms, fresh, chopped 2 c Lobster, cooked (or crab) 1 c Vermouth, dry 1/2 c CrŠme FraŒche 1/2 c Jarlsberg cheese, grated Plus addl for topping 2 tb Heavy cream
Scrub and dry the potatoes. Cut a small deep slit in the top of each.
Set the potatoes on the middle rack of a preheated 375F. oven and bake
about 1 hour, or until potatoes are tender when pricked with a fork.
Let potatoes cool slightly, cut off and discard the tops, and scrape the
potato pulp into a bowl. Do not scrape so deeply that you tear the potato
skin. Salt and pepper the potato shells; reserve. Mash the potato pulp;
reserve.
Melt the butter in a small skillet and saut‚ the chopped onion, covered,
until tender and lightly colored, about 25 minutes. Add the mushrooms and
saut‚ for another 5 minutes. Stir in the lobster or crab. Season with salt
and pepper, add the vermouth, then raise heat to a boil. Stir frequently
over high heat until all liquid has boiled away. Stir in crŠme fraŒche and
remove from heat.
Combine lobster mixture with the reserved mashed potato pulp and 1/2 cup
Jarlsberg. Taste, correct seasoning; add heavy cream if the mixture seems
too dry.
Stuff the mixture into the reserved potato skins; mound the filling
slightly. Sprinkle additional grated cheese on top and place on baking
sheet.
Bake again at 400F., until potatoes are hot and cheese is bubbling.
Serve immediately
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