Today is National Tater Day so indulge!!!
National Tater Day is an unofficial food holiday set aside to celebrate the potato. It has been celebrated annually on March 31. While it is a day set aside for potatoes, this day may have come about because of a different food celebration that occurs just days later. On the first Monday in April each year, there is a local observance for sweet potatoes in Marshall County, Kentucky. It has been an annual day for sweet potato celebration since the 1840s.
The potato is the leading vegetable crop in the US.
National Tater Day History
The exact reason that National Tater Day came about is unknown. It is also unknown who had the idea for National Potato Day. The history of the potato goes back over 2500 years. Potatoes sustained the economy in Ireland for centuries. Americans did not start to use potatoes as a food until the 1870s. Prior to that, potatoes were primarily considered livestock feed.
Amazing Twice Baked Potatoes
| Serves: | 6 |
| Prep Time: | 1 Hr |
| Cook Time: | 2 Hr |
Ingredients
| 6 | potatoes, bakers |
| 1/2 | yellow bell pepper |
| 1/2 | green bell pepper |
| 1/2 | red bell pepper |
| 1 | red onion |
| 1/2 c | ham |
| 1/2 c | bacon, cooked |
| 1/4 c | milk, 1% |
| 5 Tbsp | margarine |
| 5 Tbsp | olive oil, light |
| 1 lb | cheddar cheese, shredded |
| 2 Tbsp | garlic pepper |
| 1 1/2 c | sour cream |
Directions
pre heat oven to 350 degrees wash potatoes, poke holes with fork, bake for about 2 1/2 hours
while those are baking dice up the onion, peppers, ham, and bacon
sautee the onions, and peppers and garlic pepper in the olive oil until tender. remove from heat
mix the crumbled bacon, and diced ham with the onion mixture, sautee for about 5 minutes.
drain oil from mixture.
when potatoes are tender when stabbed with a fork, remove from oven, cut in half, length wise, and allow about 10 minutes to cool
when potatoes are cooled, scoop out the inside with a spoon being careful not to break the skin. save the shells on a foil lined cook sheet
put the scooped out potato into a bowl, mash with margarine, milk, sour cream and half the cheddae cheese
when done mashing to your desired chunkiness, or smoothness, add in the bacon, ham, onion mixture. mix well
begin scooping mixture back into shells fill them as full as you can they can be over flowing
cover the potatoes with remaining cheese. bake for about 15 minutes at 350.
Let cool about 10 minutes before serving..
