Twice Baked Potatoes are a great side dish, whether it’s made from freshly baked potatoes or leftover ones. This recipe feeds four people using only two potatoes. I like them as a side dish but depending on what you stuff them with they make a nice lunch item or a starter. My number one choice is broccoli and cheese but other choices are bacon and cheese, ham and cheese, scrambled eggs, bacon and cheese (can you see a theme developing here? I like them with cheese, but it is not mandatory).

I can probably only handle two or three good turkey meals over the holidays, after that I just get all turkeyed out! After I had picked my turkey clean the other day to make the turkey stock for my last blog, I realized that I hadn’t actually had any turkey yet this season and since Jana was working late I thought it was about time the kids and I had some for supper!

Back when I was working in restaurants around Toronto, I learned to make the most of each and every ingredient we brought into the kitchen. Even though I am out of the restaurants, I still apply that same culinary philosophy I learned many years ago to help minimize our food costs at home. Stocks are a great example of how to make the most from your ingredients; they are a culinary fundamental everyone should learn.