2 medium-sized Russet potatoes
4 strips bacon
1/2 bell pepper, coarsely chopped
2 Tbsp. butter
1/3 cup shredded cheese (I like Cheddar-Jack)
2 eggs
salt
pepper
- Preheat oven to 400 F.
- Wash potatoes and poke with fork to vent. Put directly in oven (do not wrap in foil).
- Meanwhile, cut bacon into 1/2" strips and saute until crispy. Drain on paper towel/plate.
- Saute peppers in the bacon grease (perhaps you've noticed, I love recycling bacon grease).
- Remove potato from oven and cut off the top horizontally (you basically just want to take off enough that you can stuff it and have room, not quite half way-- perhaps about a third?).
- Scoop out the potato flesh, taking care not to break the skin-- leave a little flesh to maintain the structural integrity of the skin. If you do break through, wrap it in foil to hold it together.
- Mash together potato flesh, butter and cheese. Fold in bacon and peppers.
- Stuff the potato mixture back into the skin.
- Create a depression in the potato mixture. The depression should be big enough for an egg, as the next step is:
- Crack the egg into a small dish and pour into the potato depression.
- Bake the whole thing on a baking sheet 10-20 minutes, or until the eggs are just set.
- Salt and pepper to taste.
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