Buffalo Chicken Potato Skins

As you probably know, the Super Bowl was a week ago. And as we also all know, I only really need one excuse (sometimes  even none) to have a food party!  I know there’s a lot of word on the web that the winner of the Super Bowl was the Patriots….or Left Shark, but the real winner of the party—which obviously extrapolates to the winner of the whole bowl—was actually my buffalo chicken potato skins. And while they took a little bit of effort, my god they were so delicious.

Try them :)

Ingredients

• 1.5 cups of shredded chicken (boil maybe 2 raw chicken breasts for about an hour, and then take a fork and it'll fall right apart)
• 1 small bottle of Frank's RedHot Buffalo Wing Sauce
• 8 oz. package of cream cheese
• a bag of cheddar cheese
• small bag of mini Dutch yellow potatoes...and just for a frame of reference, I had 13 in my bag
• olive oil

Process

• Prep the chicken first, if it's not already in its shredded form.
• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.  Brush the potatoes liberally with olive oil and stick them in the oven for 25 min.

• Increase the temperature to 400 degrees.  While that's heating up, let the potatoes cool down enough for you to cut them in half.  Rebrush them with olive oil and pop them back in the oven for another 15 minutes.

• While those are softening up, mix together the following: 1.5 cups of shredded chicken, most (about 80%, honestly depends on your preference of buffalo-ness) of the Frank's RedHot Sauce, the package of cream cheese, and a cup of cheddar cheese.

• After that's done, put it aside for potato time.  And potato time means that it's time to take a spoon and scoop out the insides of each of the potato halves and to make baby potato bowls!

• Now put spoonfuls of the buffalo chicken dip you made earlier and fill each potato skin up.  Sprinkle with cheddar cheese for a melty top.

• Put them back in the oven for another 10 minutes to melt the cheese on top and the cheese in the dip.  AND (I know, I know. This is totally over-the-top, but you know how I roll.) to make them cute and footbally, draw the little stitch things that make footballs footballs and dress up the potato skins as footballs.  I put ranch dressing in a ziploc bag, cut the corner, and made the designs.

And ta-da! THAT is how you Super Bowl.