Parmesan Crusted Chicken and Twice Baked Red Potatoes

So tonight's dinner was really quite good. Chicken was on sale this week and I hadn't gotten around to freeze the excess so I thought really hard about how to use it in tonight dinner. I have TONS of recipes that involve marinating the chicken but I just didn't have time for that. Nor did I want something super time consuming or something super plain. I found this on the web after remembering someone mentioning using Mayo on chicken. Well I was skeptical as well but not anymore! I changed the recipe to fit my family size and tastes a little bit.

I'll work on those picture skills I promise :) And we used precooked bacon because we had tons in the fridge but the direction are for the much better tasting raw bacon wrapped potatoes. There's a picture of what they should really look like at the bottom of the post.

The recipe was incredible easy. I used a lemon bar pan but you can use a Pyrex dish if you have that instead.

Garlic Parmesan melt in your mouth chicken

Recipe:
2 boneless skinless chicken breast
1/2 cup reduced fat mayo
1/4 cup powdered Parmesan cheese (the stuff in the can by the noodles you know?)

3/4 teaspoons seasoning salt 

1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder

Spray your pan with nonstick cooking spray. Combine all the ingredients thoroughly. Spread over chicken and bake at 375 for 45 minutes. 

Red twice baked potatoes

(don't worry if you don't have all of these. you can prepare them with whatever you have on hand)

Recipe:

4 medium sized red or fingerling potatoes

cheese

cream cheese

butter 

salt and pepper

milk 

green onions

8 slices of bacon, optional

toothpick, optional

1. Wash potatoes and stab a few hole in the skin for venting. Microwave uncovered for about 6 minutes. Slice open and let cool. The skin will be a bit softer than we want a baked potato to be but the second cooking step in the oven takes care of this.

2. After the potatoes are cool enough to handle carefully scrape out the insides and place in a bowl.

 

3. This step we will basically be making mashed potatoes kick up a notch. To my bowl of potatoes I add a little milk ,cheese, butter, salt, pepper, green onions and cream cheese until it reached the flavor I liked. You can simply do butter salt and pepper and whatever you think would be good. Maybe garlic powder?

4. Stuff the potatoes with the mashed potatoes. Top with cheese. 

 

5. If you like bacon, wrap the potato with a piece of bacon and secure it with a toothpick. Repeat for the rest of the potatoes.

 

 6. Bake at 375 for 15-20 minutes til bacon is crispy. As the bacon cooks, it forms to the potato and gives off a great bacon flavor. It also look a lot prettier. Remove toothpick and serve.