Twice-Baked Potatoes

For another cooking assignment Jessica made twice-baked potatoes using a recipe from www.recipezaar.com. She chose Best Twice-Baked Potatoes from Loren Lou (thank you!) and you can find the recipe by clicking on this sentence.

We like our potatoes baked in the oven. Above Jessica slices off a thin piece from the top which we just discarded.

Next she uses a spoon to carefully scoop out the inside, starting in the middle and working out to the edges, being careful to try and leave the shell intact with some potato still giving the skin support. Click on a picture to see more detail on the shelled out potatoes in the pan.

Moving on, she beat together the ingredients for the filling and the above picture shows the addition of some of the cheese.

Once the filling is fairly smooth she put a generous dollop in each potato before filling them up completely. This helps to ensure equal amounts in each potato without overfilling some and underfilling others. (At least this is how we fill the potatoes at our house.)

And here we have the stuffed to overflowing potatoes topped with more cheese since we didn't have the cooked and crumbled bacon suggested by the recipe.

The finished potatoes-golden and delicious from the oven. The filling puffed and settled some during the baking so I am glad that she used all the filling even though it looked like it would be too much. These were really yummy and we enjoyed them.


Trivia question: What potato dishes do you make at your house? Mashed? Scalloped? Potato salad? Fries? Hash Browns? Funeral Potatoes? Soup? etc.....