Potato Skins - Leftover style

Just makes you want to take a bite, doesn't it?

If you follow our post you will see that yesterday we brought Twice Baked Potato Casserole to Christmas dinner where my brother made ham as the main dish. We were lucky enough to take home leftovers of both! In addition, one of the perks to making the Twice Baked Potato Casserole is that you have potato skins left over.

Today was a day to relax for us and we had a refrigerator filled with left overs, so we decided to create a recipe that would make use of all of the food, including left overs, that we had on hand. This is one of the main reasons we decided to start sharing the foods we create on this blog. We don't like to waste, food prices aren't exactly going down, so we try our best to incorporate ingredients that were left over from previous meals, and have actually found it to be very gratifying and fun to find creative ways to use what we have on hand. You'll find it makes you a better cook.

Yield: 9 skins (which means 2 to us!)
Time: 1 hour

Ingredients:
9 potato skins, brush with duck fat and sprinkled with salt
2 thick slices ham, make a glaze from honey, Sriracha and Sambol
1 cup White Cheddar, shredded
10 leaves of cabbage, blanched in milk ( used milk from blanched cabbage to wet leftover potatoes. )
Leftover Twice Baked Potatoes - approx. 2 cups

Assembly:
Layer: Potato skins, cabbage leaves, potato mixture, shredded cheese, topped with chili glazed ham.

Cooked in a 475° oven, high heat to crisp skins, for 20 - 25 minutes.

Right out of the oven.

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