PW's Potato Skins

PW's Potato Skins is a recipe appearing in The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Recipes from an Accidental Country Girl.

Official description
Who doesn't love crispy, baked potato skins stuffed with all the goodness of life? That goodness, of course, is cheese, bacon, and sour cream. Stuff I want to eat in heaven. These classic appetizers, circa 1982, are incredibly easy and always a crowd pleaser. Most circa 1982 appetizers are!

Recipe

 * 8 slices thick-cut bacon
 * 8 russet potatoes, scrubbed clean
 * Canola oil
 * Kosher salt
 * 1 1/2 cups sharp cheddar cheese
 * 1 cup sour cream
 * 4 green onions, sliced

Preheat the oven to 400*F.

Let's start things off right: let's fry up the bacon. Bacon makes everything right.

Next, wash the potatoes and rub the skin liberally with canola oil. Place on a baking pan and bake for 45 minutes to 1 hour, until the potatoes are fork-tender.

Slice the potatoes in half lengthwise.

With a cookie scoop or spoon, scrape out the inner flesh of the potatoes, leaving a small margin of potato in the skins.

Brush both sides of the potato skins with canola oil. Salt both sides liberally.

Place the skins cut side down on the pan and return to the oven.

Bake for 7 minutes, then flip the skins to the other side.

Bake for 7 minutes more, or until the skins are crispy. If you're starving, dip one skin in sour cream and have yourself a snack. Repeat as needed. [sic]

Now, grate the cheddar.

Chop the bacon into bits.

Sprinkle cheese into each potato skin...

Then sprinkle with bacon and return to the oven just until the cheese melts.

Just before serving, spoon 1 tablespoon of sour cream on each skin and sprinkle with sliced green onions.

Then simply place them on a platter, walk toward your guests, and discover what it feels like to be the most popular person in the room. Field marriage proposals as needed. [sic]