Twice-Baked Potatoes

I just want to preface this post by saying that when I made these, I didn't actually measure out anything. Vann and I made these to taste, and you know what? They were scrumptious. We had to give ourselves a couple o' good pats on the back for these, that's how good we did. Not tootin' my own horn or anything like that....just sayin'. Ahem. Anyway, as I was saying...we didn't measure. We just added things here and there until the potatoes tasted exactly the way we wanted them to. However, to give everyone some guidelines, I will include measurements.

8 baking potatoes
1 cup sour cream
1 cup bacon, cooked and crumbled
1/4 tsp. seasoning salt
1/4 tsp. pepper
1 green onion, diced
2 sticks butter, room temp., cut into pieces
shredded cheese

Bake the potatoes at 400 degrees for 1 hr. and 15 minutes, making sure they are cooked thoroughly. Once they are done, cut the potatoes in half lengthwise. Scoop out the goods, only leaving the shell, and plop in a mixing bowl. Add all of the ingredients to taste. (We just sprinkled, added, sprinkled, added, and sprinkled some more until we liked what we tasted. And when it came to butter, we happened to have the Country Crock tub of butter in the fridge, so I just took a spoon and globbed some in the bowl). Stir everything together with a fork until they become the consistency of mashed potatoes (which won't be hard since they will basically be like that when you scoop out everything). Fill up the potato skins with the potato mixture. Put back into the oven for about 15 minutes, or until the potatoes are warm all the way through.

You know, before I made these, I had never tasted a twice-baked potato? Nonetheless actually made them. But I sure am glad I found a recipe for them! I would definitely suggest just getting a package of Hormel Real Bacon. It tastes just as good, and it makes it much easier. Not saying that cooking bacon in the microwave is a hard task... but not having to go back and forth between the microwave and mixing bowl would have been nice...ah, whatever, you get my gist. We still had bacon in the fridge from the loaded baked potato salad, so I used the rest of that up. But next time, I will definitely be purchasing some Hormel BB's.