What's For Dinner? Twice Baked, Baked Potatoes and Dairy Milk Chocolate and Walnut Banana Bread!

Tonight’s dinner was yummy twiced baked potatoes. (Are these entries helpful to anyone? Are you getting ideas for dinner? I find I struggle to keep dinner interesting… more so for myself, my husband can eat the same thing every day and doesn’t care, it’s me, I hate eating the same thing every day! So if anything I hope these food related entries help out at least someone!) We do these potatoes a lot as you can make them as a complete meal, or as a side. And really, once you scrub the potato, all you have to do is chuck it in the oven.

Bake your potatoes. (We do 400 F for about an hour. Make sure to prick with a fork a few times before you put them into the oven so they don't explode!)  Once they are cooked pull them out of the oven.

Slice in half.

Scoop out the insides.  (Use an oven mitt or a towel to hold them as they are dang hot.)

Dress up said insides: onion, broccoli, cauliflower, bacon, cheese, tomato; whatever is lying around! Season with your favourite seasoning!

We used green onion, a wee bit of pre-cooked bacon (you will notice bacon makes it’s an appearance a lot in our dinners, but in moderation!), old cheddar and a shot of paprika!

I used a wee bit of skim milk to make the potato easier to stir.

Add mixture back into the hollowed out potato (potato skin if you will). Put back in the oven, heat until cheese is melted. (If you are in a hurry, just throw this mixture into the microwave and melt the cheese and then add it to the potato skin!)  We were out of sour cream, but topping these bad boys with some sour cream would be a great way to finish them off.

For dessert we made Dairy Milk Chocolate and Walnut Banana Bread! (We mixed this before we started the baked potato insides so the bread was done soon after dinner, so we didn’t have to wait as long!)

The bane of my existence are bananas and how they never stay yellow for long. I refuse to waste food so when a banana turns brown I freeze it. I currently have about 24 bananas in my freezer. I will use them for smoothies or for baking. We tend to have banana bread a lot, haha. The Dairy Milk Chocolate bar came from the Shoppers Drug Mart Optimum Points Event this past weekend. If you bought 4 bars, you got 8000 points and they were on sale for $2 each. Normally to get 8000 points you have to spend like $80 bucks, but sometimes you get bonus points. These chocolate bars helped me my points get bumped up to the point level I needed to have in order to get $50 worth of stuff. So really, I had to buy this chocolate ;)

We typically make banana bread plain, but if I have chocolate chips or any nuts in the house, I will throw them into the batter as well. So tonight’s banana bread was “special” with real Dairy Milk Chocolate. (Really, there is no better chocolate, it’s a fact!)

I followed this simple recipe, but just chucked in the last of my walnuts and chopped up Dairy Milk!  My loaf pans were in the dishwasher and I was too lazy to wash them by hand, so I used a 9 x 9 pan, which makes the bread thinner and cook faster.  Mine was cooked at the 45 minute mark. 

 

 

I wish I could share it, or at least if this blog had smell-a-vision as it was DELICOUS!

And banana bread is healthy right? I mean it has three bananas in it, and walnuts have healthy omega stuff, so win win! Also, I recently read of a study that they found that milk chocolate helps lower men’s risk of strokes, so I am looking out for my husband!