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Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Baked Potato Skins with Creamy Spinach and Turkey Bacon

These look really good. I've had this recipe for a while but forgot about it. Won't forget about it much longer. Gonna make it Thursday night. Can't wait!

Points: 2
Servings: 6

INGREDIENTS
3 medium potatoes, baked, sliced in half, and cooled
1 spray cooking spray
20 oz chopped frozen spinach, thawed and squeezed dry
4 oz light cream cheese
1/4 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. pepper
3 slices crisp turkey bacon, crumbled

DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
Scoop out flesh of potatoes, leaving about 1/4 of potato flesh in potato. (Reserve remaining potato flesh for another use such as mashed potatoes.)
Place potato halves on baking sheet and coat with cooking spray.
Bake until lightly browned, about 15 min.
While potato skins bake, combine spinach, cream cheese, salt, and pepper in medium bowl until well blended.
Remove skins from oven and spoon 3 tablespoons of spinach mixture into each skin; bake until warmed through, about 5 more min.
Remove skins from oven and top with about 1 tbs. crumble bacon.
Yields 1 potato half per serving.

Note: To easily dry spinach, place thawed spinach in a clean kitchen towel and squeeze out the liquid over the sink, as though you were ringing out a wet towel.

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