Twice Baked Potatoes
Po-ta-toes
Equipment
- Bowl
- Baking Pan or Tin Foil
- Griddle
- Cutting board
- Knife
- Spoon
Ingredients
- 1 potato
- Salt and pepper; to taste
- 1 Tbs butter
- 1 strip bacon
- 1 spoonful sour cream
- 1/4 cup cheddar cheese
- dash milk optional
- Green onions optional, chopped
Instructions
- Gather ingredients
- preheat oven to or toaster oven to 350.
- Scrub the potato, and prick several time with the tines of a fork. Place on a plate.
- Cook on full power in the microwave for 5 minutes.
- Carefully, Turn the potato over, and continue to cook for 5 more minutes.
- When the potato is soft, remove from the microwave, and cut in half lengthwise.
- While potato is cooking, Turn on griddle or stove top.
- Cook one slice of bacon on the stovetop or griddle, flipping once to make sure both sides are crispy about 4 minutes on each side.
- When bacon is crispy, place on paper towel to cool.
- Carefully, scoop out the inside of potato with spoon and place into a bowl. Be sure the potato skin doesn’t break.
- Chop 1 green onion into small pieces.
- In bowl with potato insides, add sour cream, cheddar cheese, green onion (optional), and salt and pepper (dash of milk to make creamy is optional)
- Mix thoroughly
- Place the potato shells on a piece of tin foil or baking sheet
- Fill potato shells with potato mixture
- Put in toaster oven or oven for 15 minutes, until warm, then take out using oven mitts
- Turn off the oven or toaster oven