Fourth Baked Potatoes

I look forward to the November issue of Cooking Light every year because it always supplies plenty of ideas to shake up the conventional ways of cooking holiday foods.  Of course, we all have our favorite versions of holiday foods, so I sidelined a few of the recipes I wanted to try at a different time so that I could enjoy my traditional versions on the actual holiday.  One of my favorite dishes on Thanksgiving are sweet potatoes, served buttered, sugared and marshmallow-ed.   It's basically a dessert and you get to have, guilt-free, along side your other Thanksgiving side-dishes knowing that what is actually the dessert is still coming later.  I'm a sweets person, through and through, so I find this concept to be awesome.  This past year the holiday issue of Cooking Light categorized all the different holiday dishes into recipe sections and in the "Potatoes" section, I found a recipe that sounded good, but was a little cautious because it wasn't a sweet sweet potato recipe.  The recipe is called "Twice-Baked Sweet Potatoes with Chipotle" and I ended up making this recipe for the first time this Christmas, because with only having one guest over for dinner I didn't want to make traditional mashed potatoes and a sweet sweet potato recipe to go with the brisket I was serving.  This recipe sounded like it would be a good blend of sweet and spicy, so I decided to give it a holiday try-out.  Words can not do this recipe enough justice, so do yourself a favor and make it!  I've titled this blog entry "Fourth Baked Potatoes" because in the last month alone, I have made this 4 times; it's that good.  This recipe is also easy to bring to get-togethers, which is why I made this recipe for our Super Bowl gathering and they turned out to be quite the crowd-pleaser.  Going out of my holiday comfort zone really paid-off and I think I've found a new holiday favorite...that is if Jon and I aren't tired of eating twice-baked sweet potatoes with chipotle by next Thanksgiving! 

Twice Baked Sweet Potatoes with Chipotle

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