Unless you live your life better than I do (maybe!), I bet you might have ended up full of potatoes for dinner – or, as it’s often called across the pond, “Jacket potatoes.” And it’s a crime because they are comfortable and easy to do, we can fix this now.

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While no one at my table needs to be freed from the usual tops – butter, cheddar, sour cream, bacon bits, I have never suffered without that fake, and I have never suffered with the whole pesky dish. In all these years, I have tried to prepare it in mushroom ragú potatoes, cauliflower cheese potatoes (in between Beaten by the keepers in the kitchen), twice baked potatoes with kale, and baked potato soup with greens inside. But nothing close to the success of the Stating Laque Precial of Broccoli and bacon that was stuffed together until they were both salty and crunchy. You hold yourself in the oven around the time of baking potatoes and, I hope, charge yourself in the economy and easily where you take out dinner in the evening.

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Now that dinner is ready, I have, well, a command to share, one I carefully watched with a lot of effort, a serious bite of baked potato,

One good order is a load of baked potatoes:

  • Step 1: The pot is baked, pressed and popped open to reveal the fluffy center.
  • Step 2: A generous pat or one butter will melt through the fluff ngxion.
  • Step 3: salt and pepper. “Season as you go!” as the chefs say.
  • Step 4: Cheddar cheese, which – – I made the rules – must be orange. Also, you will melt soon after contact.
  • Step 4: Any crispy parts, like bacon and, here, broccoli too. They will replace the melted cheddar chary hammock, as we all love.
  • Step 5: A dollop of sour cream, breakstone or filling.
  • Step 6: A final dusting of salt and pepper and sprinkle the hats all over. Honestly, if we don’t push ourselves, we probably haven’t done it right.
  • Step 7: If you are my age and I give it to you but I give the manners of the table (one night!) At a time when potatoes are mostly removed from these articles, potatoes will be added, and eaten as a taco.

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    Baked potatoes with crispy broccoli and bacon

    • 4 (about 8 ounces each) Russet potatoes, cleaned and peeled
    • Olive oil
    • Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
    • 1 pound fresh broccoli, cut into 1-inch pieces
    • 4 ounces bacon (about 4 slices), diced
      • To finish
    • Butter
    • Sharp Orange Cheddar, CASTELY
    • Sour cream
    • Fresh chives
    Bake your potatoes: Heat your oven to 450 ° F. Pierce each potato a few times with a fork (this helps keep it fluffy). Using your hands lightly, slowly, coat each potato in olive oil, you won’t need more than a tablespoon per potato. Sprinkle the potatoes all over with Kosher salt and black pepper and bake them directly on your oven rack for 45 minutes to 1 hour. I usually keep them to one side so I have room to add a pan of broccoli soon. A perfectly baked potato can be easily pulled from this center with a skewer.

    Meanwhile, sauté the broccoli and bacon: Toss the broccoli with a few spoons of olive oil (just to cover a little as there will be bacon fat to use the bacon, salt, and medium black pepper in the center. Add the streaked bacon, and toss so it is distributed throughout the pan. 15 minutes into the time of baking the potatoes, add this pan to your oven. Bake it for 25 to 30 minutes or the bacon is crisp and the broccoli almost cried, turning the pieces and moving them down once or twice at the right time.

    Your potatoes can be done at the same time or they may need 15 minutes longer.

    Serving: I find that the potatoes are better when I open them where I want them if I put them once or twice down the middle of the fork. Use towel- or pothid- covered pothilded hands to press the ends of the potatoes into the open pop it, then pull them back so you have more room to add the toppings. Load each potato with butter, salt and pepper, cheddar, a large scoop of roasted broccoli and bacon, sour cream, sour cream, and pepper, and lots of pepper. Eat it right away.