Potatoes. Boiled, baked, sautéed, and fried– it seems that this season I cannot get enough of them. Maybe it’s the cold weather. The crunchy ice paving the sidewalk outside my apartment makes me want to stay in near the fire, a stack of books to my left, and a piping hot tuber to my right. Carbohydrates, how I love ya! The potato may be perfect in all of its grubby glory, but when you are eating them for days on end (as I have been), they may require a bit of gussying up to make them special once again. Enter the twice-baked potato:
My mother comes from a fairly large family that, for years, gathered together at my grandma’s house for every holiday imaginable. There would be piles of food, far too much for even this family with so many hungry mouths to [...]
