So my roommate came downstairs last night as I was cooking dinner, looked at me and said, “You know, you’ve been cooking with bacon a lot lately.” I didn’t know how to respond, was this a bad thing? “I’m sorry,” was my immediate response (although I really wasn’t). He looked at me, shocked. “No, it smells better than that apple wax burner thing in the bathroom.” Oh. So apparently bacon overrules apples in my house. Who knew? Anyway, the reason I was cooking with bacon again was because we wanted twice baked potatoes for dinner. And to be honest, I only really knew what they were from the frozen food aisle and had a faint notion on how to do it. So with a working theory, I whipped up what turned out to be an amazing side dish – with some casualities along the way. Turns out scooping out the insides of microwaved potatoes is a bit harder than I expected. After the fourth attempt, I was making mini canoes instead of ripping apart the skin and losing what was meant to be the “bowl” for the remixed insides. Basically, a twice-baked potato starts with a regular spud. Microwave it […]