Yummy Twice Baked Potato Skins-using left over baked potato

This may not be the way you're suppose to make authentic potato skins, but I whipped them up for myself last night using a couple of left over baked potatoes from the night before.

Split the potato length-wise so you have 2 halves. Scoop a little of the potato flesh out of each half, dip bottoms in a little olive oil and fill each half with a little green onion, shredded cheese of your choice, and a few cooked bacon bits. Pop into a 350 degree oven and bake for about 15 minutes. Drain the bottoms of the potatoes on paper towel if you need to, and then serve with sour cream.

Here's a Post Script for you and the proper way to make Baked Potato Skins. Scrub your potatoes so they're nice and clean, prick a couple of holes in them so they don't explode in the oven. Rub olive oil on each one and bake in the oven at 400 degrees for about 45 minutes. Take them out of the oven and cool before you split them in half. Remove most of the potato flesh from each half and put into another bowl for mashing. Now you can get creative and add some cheese, chives, olives, bacon bits, you name it! Pipe or spoon the potato back into each half, top with more ingredients if you like, such as panko bread crumbs or more cheese and bake in the oven for an additional 30 minutes at 400 degrees or until the potato skins are nice and brown. Oh so yum!!!!! Here are some more stuffed baked potato skin ideas:

Camembert Cheese with pancetta bacon; sweet potato with blue cheese and bacon; or a pizza potato skins with olives, a little pizza sauce, mushrooms, Parmesan, and mozzarella; or roasted garlic and Alfredo sauce; rosemary with Gruyere cheese; wine sauteed shrimp stuffed potato skins with sharp cheddar cheese; or crab stuffed with jack or muenster cheese, and last but not least, why not poach some eggs, layer some ham in a potato skin, top with egg and some hollandaise sauce for an eggs benedict potato skin? Let's be honest here, any kind of potato cheesy combo will be good.