Twice baked potatoes

Hey Everyone! I hope that you all have had a great Christmas. We are down with 2 holidays (Thanksgiving & Christmas) and we only have New Years left. For all of you that are thinking about doing a fancy dinner, want to make it look like you spent hours in the kitchen, or just have a craving for a potato I have the meal for you. This looks like a lot of work but it really is not. I found this meal from Foodwishes.com but I made a couple of additions.

Ingredients:

1. 4 potatoes
2. Olive oil
3. 1 cup of cheddar cheese (next time I will try pepper jack)
4. 2 tablespoons of butter and more for later
5. 1 tsp of garlic salt (more if you like garlic)
6. 2 tsp chopped chives
7. Bacon bits
8. Paprika
9. Salt & Pepper to taste
10. Any other toppings you like on your potato

Hardware:

1. 1 medium bowl
2. 1 Foil lined pan

Directions:

1. Preheat your oven to 400
2. Lay you spuds on the pan and rub a little olive oil on them. Then bake them for about an hour. When you can stick a knife in them with ease they are done.
3. When they are done baking cut off the top 1/3 of the potato. Keep the top we will use it later
4. Next, take a spoon and scoop out the center of the potato and don’t forget to scoop out the top. Put it all in your bowl.
5. Once you have added all of the potato guts add some butter
6. Also salt and pepper
7. Then all of your favorite toppings. Mix together with a fork or a potato masher.
8. Remember the tops you cut off and didn’t throw away? Place them in the bottom of the hollowed out potato. I found out it will make the potato look like there is more in there.
9. After you have put the tops in the potato then add the mashed taters.
10. Add some melted butter on top. For a fancy look you can run a fork across the tops like I did.
11. Sprinkle some paprika on top and add back into the oven for about 30 more minutes.
12. Pull out and add it to a meal or eat them alone.

Enjoy.