Next step! BACON!! Cut up some bacon and throw it in a pan to get crispy and yummy! When bacon is in a recipe, you know it's gonna be a good one!
After the bacon is cooked, pull it out and put it on some paper towels. Drain most of the bacon grease out of your pan but leave a bit in because you are going to be sauteing some onions in that very pan.
Now after these have cooked down a bit, normally I would put in some fresh spinach. Unfortunately today I didn't have any. Fortunately though, I keep frozen spinach nuggets in my freezer for just these sorts of occasions. So throw in some frozen chopped spinach (I used 2 nuggets) or some fresh spinach and let it wilt.
When the spinach is cooked down, add your bacon back in and set aside! Isn't that starting to look deeeee licious?????
Now back to the bowl of sweet potato innards.... Add to it some cream cheese, sour cream and salt and pepper. This is where you could experiment with different flavors. Honestly though, simple is great too!
Mash it all up with a fork. Make sure that you don't make the same mistake I made and pick a flimsy fork for your mashing.. It will end up bent like mine did.
Add in your bacon, onion, spinach mixture..... It's really starting to come together now!
But what recipe would be complete without more cheese? I say be creative with what cheese you use. Last time I made this I used mozzarella and Parmesan. This time I had no mozza but I did have this wonderful cheese baby.
Asiago cheese... a wonder in the cheese world!
I also had some of this Parmesan as well.
Make a beautiful snow mountain of cheese in your sweet potato mixture and stir it up.
Fill your skins with that mixture and add some more of that wonderful cheese on top. Bake it again for about 10 minutes just to melt that cheese and get it nice and toasty.
Serve up in a cute bowl or plate!
And take a wonderful bite!
Now it appears to me that I lied when I said it was something that none of my family would like .. I was wrong.. As the smells swirled around our house, it's beauty enticed my oldest girl. A girl who is always willing to try something once. She loved it and proceeded to ask for a whole one for herself. I said no. How can my experiment of freezing them work if there are none left to freeze? Now when it comes to someone getting a bite of food from mom, it wouldn't be fair if they didn't all got a bite. Toby tried some... I didn't take a picture of him gagging... no surprise there. I liked it but he shovels food in so quickly that I can never get a picture. Sweet Pea wanted to try some too!
She's looking pretty optimistic here.
Now she's not quite sure.....
Nope... it's not a winner for her.
And there you go.. Twice Baked Sweet Potatoes!
Here's the recipe.
Ingredients:
2 sweet potatoes
3-4 slices of bacon
1 half red onion, diced
2 nuggets frozen spinach or 2 cups fresh spinach
2 oz cream cheese
1/4-1/2 cup sour cream
salt and pepper to taste
1/2 - 1 cup cheese
1. Bake potatoes at 350 for 60-70 min or until fork tender. Set aside to cool slightly. Cut potatoes in half, and scoop out the potato leaving a small rim still on the skin. Drizzle the skin with olive oil and pop back into the oven to crisp up.
2. Cut bacon into small pieces and fry. Scoop out cooked bacon and set aside on paper towels. Drain most of the bacon grease and add onions to the pan. Saute until transparent and add spinach. When spinach has cooked down, add bacon back and set aside.
3. Add cream cheese, sour cream salt and pepper to the sweet potato and mash. Add bacon mixture and mix. Add grated cheese.
4. Fill the skins with the sweet potato mixture and top with cheese. Bake for an additional 10 minutes.
5. EAT!
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