While you're cursing the quarterback or laughing at the newest Snickers commercial, feast on a few of these luscious bacon and cheese potato skins. You can bake the potatoes in advance to save time; quickly remove the foil from the potatoes after baking to reduce any "wrinkliness" in the refrigerator later.
On the Lonesome Road, we generally try to use low-fat dairy products; however, there are some instances when this isn't the best option or doesn't produce the best results. Potato skins are one of those instances; I prefer to use full-fat cheese for its melting qualities and it generally seems to brown better.
When you're ready to assemble the potato skins, cut each baked potato in half and scoop out the insides so there is about 1/4 inch of potato in each shell. Then, the shells will need to "dry out" a bit so that they will be crispy when finished. Sad truth: frying the skins before filling them really does taste better, much like a McDonald's apple pie. However, if you're trying to cut down on a few fat calories you can bake the shells first. I've done this by putting them on a foil-lined pizza pan in a 450 degree Fahrenheit oven for ten minutes face-up, then flip them over and bake another 15 minutes or so. Potatoes will be ready when they no longer stick to the foil when they are face-down.
- herbed cream cheese
- blue cheese
- chili
- taco meat
- chorizo
- chopped smoked ham
- Canadian bacon
- hot or sweet Italian sausage
- broccoli
- mushrooms
- chili pepeprs
- olives, green or black
- giardinera
- black bean and corn salsa with Jack cheese
- your favorite pizza toppings + marinara sauce and mozzarella cheese
- fresh spinach, garlic and feta cheese
5 comments:
This looks fantastic, Angie...I could live on that stuff - or would love to try it anyway ;-)
Hope you're doing well!
Hi Doris! Love the avatar! Yes, by nature I'm more of a "grazer" LOL.
I love these things, they are soooooo good
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Thanks T&C, I'm definitely making a batch for the Super Bowl game, I think I might go with chili, cheese and onions.
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