Stuffed Baked Potato

This is what you get when the baked potato meets the mashed potato… and then you realize it can be enhanced by shoving some extras into the mix.

I’m not a huge fan of baked potatoes anymore… I think it is just one of those foods that I have eaten way too many of throughout my lifetime (right next to Swiss cake rolls and apple sauce). I do, however, love twice baked potatoes and will gladly devour them in mass… but they take way too long to cook, and I didn’t have the patience (or the time) to get that project started this time around. So, I thought “What if I just skip the second bake?”

The result is this beast of a potato… although I would no longer consider it a baked potato.

Apparently the internet is ripe with all sorts of goodies you can stuff inside one of these things. Hell, the first hit on Google has you stuffing it with everything from brown sugar and cinnamon to ground beef and salsa… and I will try all of these variations (and more) sometime in the near future.

For my first attempt, I went for a more traditional approach (why not start with the basics). It was very easy (almost foolproof), cheap, and easily modifiable. Feel free to stray from my recipe as I’m sure you can not go wrong… and if you do, let me know how it turns out!