Mashed potatoes are good......

Especially when they're stuffed inside of a baked potato! Tonight we had twice baked potatoes with a mushroom, onion, jalapeno and bacon topping, and grilled zucchini and squash on the side.

I bought GIANT baking potatoes, microwaved them, scooped them, mixed the scoopings with some sour cream, milk, butter and salt and pepper and replaced the potato into it's shell. In the oven at 350 for 20 minutes and voila, twice baked potatoes! With about 4 minutes to go I added a few shreds of monterey jack cheese to melt on top. In the meantime I made a blend of veggies for a topping, and fried some bacon to crumble on top. The veggie topping started with some garlic and crushed red pepper browned in some olive oil. Add chopped portobello mushroom, red onion, jalapenos from the garden, a little bit of chicken stock and a little bit of cream and you get a saucy, spicy, veggie topping. We sliced and grilled the zucchini and squash for about ten minutes. It was all delicious, as always!!



We topped dinner off with a Sam Adams Summer Ale. It's as good as it looks!

Not much else to say about today. I'm pretty wiped out after the last couple of crazy days at work. I think I'm going to settle in and watch the end of the season premiere of Hell's Kitchen, and call it a night!!