Baked, stuffed potatoes

Baked Stuffed potatoes:
Ingredients:
1 medium potato per serving being made.
1 tbsp butter per serving
1 large pinch cheese, grated or sliced into strips , per serving
Spices as desired ( I use black pepper mainly here)
meats or fresh vegetables as desired

Bake your potato(es), I recommend 90 minutes at 350 degrees for medium sized potatoes. When the potato is baked cut it in two lengthwise. Scoop the potato meat out from inside the skin, transfer to bowl. In bowl, mix butter and cheese into the potato meat. Spice as desired.

If using optional meats or fresh vegetables, cook meats or saute vegetables while potatoes bake. When mixing in butter and cheese mix in your meats or vegetables (diced down to bite size). I recommend no more than 2 ounces of these additional fillings per potato. For meats I recommend a good breakfast sausage (not link style, patty style chopped up), for vegetables I recommend peppers(sauteed), onions(sauteed) or broccoli(steamed).

Take your potato stuffing you have just mixed and spoon it back into the potato skins. This will leave a moounded top over the potato skin as you've added to what originally filled it. Place potato skins on cookie sheet and place back in 350 degree oven for 15-30 minutes. The stuffing you placed in the skins should be browning, with cheese and butter totally melted, when you remove them.

Estimated cost: Depending on fillings (and potato prices in your area)this dish costs between $0.40 and $1.00 per serving

Tom...