Two things: First, thank you for the sweet emails and comments on my last post about the baby- I didn't think it was possible but it made me even more excited! And secondly, I feel like I hyped my love of potatoes and my pregnancy cravings, so I felt like the first post-pregnancy announcement recipe needed to step up to the plate in terms of both. My three potato staples have been: mashed potatoes, french fries, and baked potatoes. The french fries dipped in a fair amount of ketchup while the mashed potatoes and baked potatoes had slabs of melted butter, salt, and pepper (so, so good.)
But, I've been thinking up this recipe for a few weeks now. It started with talking with another pregnant friend about cheese sauce and thus I started dreaming of potatoes smothered in cheese sauce. But then, a voice in my head said "add BBQ!" I can only blame this on the fact we had just traveled to Austin for a wedding that had BBQ catered as the dinner (so I had BBQ on the brain.)
The result was this mess of a vegetarian loaded potato. I don't think I can tell you how much I love the crumbles that make up this BBQ (which you may recognize from this Buffalo Crumble Salad from over a year ago.) It dirties a couple of pans to make these potatoes but personally I think it's well worth it. Of course, if you're not feeling the crumbles, I've also been known to roast a bit of broccoli and use that on the potato along with the cheese (note the cheese and potato are really integral.)
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