Potatoes With Bay Leaves - cooking recipe

Ingredients

4 baking potatoes
salt
black pepper
8 bay leaves
1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil (or melted butter)

Preparation

Preheat oven to 400\u00b0.
Make a deep slit lengthwise in each potato, almost to the point of cutting it in half.
Sprinkle salt and pepper inside the potatos and tuck in the bay leaves, 2 per potato.
Put the potatoes in a baking dish and drizzle with olive oil, smearing some on the insides as well as making sure the outsides are well coated.
Push the potato halves back together; sprinkle their outsides with salt and pepper.
Bake for about 1 hour; the potatoes are done when you can easily poke a thin-bladed knife right through them; serve immediately.