Baked potatoes are such an easy way to add a side dish to a meal.  But who wants to heat up the kitchen in the summer to make them?

Stick the meat on the grill, add a fresh salad and bake the potatoes in the slow cooker, following the method that Jessica at Good Cheap Eats uses.

Her method makes the skins taste great too.  Click over to see she does it.

You could also make Fried Potatoes with the finished baked potatoes, like Liz at Hoosier Homemade does.

Don’t those look awesome?  This is a good way to use up extra baked potatoes.  And it’s a good reason to make more than you’ll need too.

Click over to see the full recipe for Hoosier Homemade’s Fried Potatoes.

This is day 4 in our 75 Days of Summer Slow Cooker Recipes series.  Find the other posts by clicking here.