TWICE BAKED POTATOES~ MY BUTT JUST GREW.....AGAIN....

I don't make these as often as I would like......if I did, it would be at least every other day and I don't think I could end up fitting through the doorways of my home..... it might be worth it........

I start out with something my father in law taught me before he passed....he was a wonderful cook......You wash the potatoes really well, rub olive oil on the skin and sprinkle it with "Spike" seasoning...... WE LOVE SPIKE.......It's a main staple here....

And you bake the potatoes until a fork pokes through the skin and into the yummy middle easily.

You cut the potatoes in half (length-wise) scoop out the insides (leaving some there so the potatoes doesn't collapse)..... brush olive oil on the inside and the outside and place back in the oven for about 10 minutes and flip them over and bake for about another 10 minutes.

While they are cooking take the "inners" and add a cube of butter and a package of cream cheese, spike (shock!), garlic, and lots of grated cheese and bacon. Mix well.

Pull them out of the oven and use two large spoons to scoop the yummy filling into the skins.

This part is VERY IMPORTANT...... You NEED two spoons. Alternate one spoon to scoop a heaping amount of filling into a potato skin and the other spoon to scoop a heaping amount of filling into your MOUTH. It must be done...it's the law of cooking......at least seems to be the law of MY cooking.....

Sprinkle, OK we all now by now what I mean when I say sprinkle and cheese in the same sentence... LOAD the top with cheese, more bacon pieces and place back in the oven to melt.


They come out looking like this....... I then added some chives....

Then I jumped up and down, did a back flip, kneeled down on one knee, through my arms up in the air and to steal the words from Mary Katerine Gallagher (Molly Shannon).....I yelled "SUPER STAR!"............

Then I sat down and ate one of these bad boys.......and then my butt grew.....sighhhhhh

Ciao Bellas~