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Breakfast Baked Potatoes

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Breakfast Baked Potatoes. I’m letting that set in for a second. Let’s take a step back though, and breathe deeply because this isn’t a false alarm nor a joke. This isn’t the time to joke around. I take my potatoes very seriously and I think you should too. Potatoes and eggs go so well together, hand in hand. They’re like best friends since the beginning of time. Nothing is better than potatoes in the morning, except maybe potatoes and eggs together in one mega dish. So here we are scooping out baked potatoes and filling them with eggs, cheese, bacon and chives. It’s the perfect balance of breakfast and a baked potato which to me, sounds like the greatest thing that has ever happened to me. It’s like Christmas in April. 

These are a cross between twice baked potatoes and baked potatoes and a breakfast sandwich (minus the bread) and a breakfast burrito (minus the tortilla). It’s the ultimate breakfast to eat during the week, but versatile enough to be a quick and healthy dinner. Who doesn’t like breakfast for dinner? Whenever I’m feeling lazy and way too tired to make a complicated dinner, I just end up making pancakes or an omelet or something simple as hash browns and fried eggs. It’s something so simple, and yet it makes me so happy. If you’re like me and love eating breakfast for dinner, then you most definitely need to add these to your repertoire. 

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Loaded Baked Potato Scones

I don’t think I have to explain my undying love of potatoes to you. I think you just get it. If I were to say to you that potatoes are the best vegetable/starch ever, like in all the worlds, well you would know I wasn’t lying. You’d most likely agree with me, because umm hello, potatoes. I have this obsession with potatoes. That’s where Potato Tacos and Potato Balls come into the picture. Not like a “they’re so good I’m obsessed can’t get enough of them” kind of obsession. While yes that’s true, it’s more like a “I need to eat potato everything and anything because they’re that good,” kind of obsession. I think it’s a healthy addiction. Nothing to worry about. It’s quite common if you really think about it. Don’t look at me like that!

I know that at some point I’ll be asked if these are scones or biscuits, and to tell you the truth, I’m not quite sure myself. I have no idea. Let’s be frank, they look exactly the same. All I know is that they’re flaky and delicious and I want to eat them all. I guess we can call them biscuit scones. Biscones. Or sconsuits. Hey look at us, we’re inventing new things. Aren’t we clever? The answer is yes. Always, yes. In all honesty, jokes aside, scones and biscuits, they’re pretty much the same thing, right? I mean, I can’t really tell the difference. Some sources claim to know the answer. The answer being that scones have eggs in the dough. Um no. I know plenty of scones that don’t have eggs in them so therefore, are they biscuits? Others claim that scones are scones if they are triangular and biscuits are biscuits if they are circular. This might be the case but at the same time, I’ve seen circular scones so I don’t think there’s a right answer here. I think the people who invented each of them got together and decided to play a trick on all of us. They wanted to mess with our heads. 

The bottom line is I made these potato scones/biscuits with bacon and cheese and I can’t think of anything more delicious at the moment. They’re something out of this world, especially right out of the oven all warm and flaky and delicious looking. Am I convincing you yet? These biscuits/scones are sort of like the ultimate snack, perfect for on-the-go. It’s potatoes, cheese and bacon and bread in a small package that you can eat with one hand while you (safely) drive to work or school or where ever else you drive. How about now? Are you convinced? These scones/biscuits are all like, “Hey look at us, we’re loaded with potatoes and crispy bacon and delicious cheese. You need to eat us!” They’re calling out to you because they know you can’t resist. Don’t fight it anymore, go on and make these biscuits/scones for yourself. 

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