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Begin by preheating your oven to 400 F. Poke the top of each potato with a fork and place on a baking sheet.
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Cook in the oven for 1 hour.
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Once cooked, remove them from the baking sheet, and place on a plate to let cool for about 15 minutes.
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Once your potatoes are cooled, use a sharp bread knife and cut each potato lengthwise into three segments for each potato.
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So each potato will yield two skins, right?
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You can discard the middle slice and reuse for breakfast the following morning, or heck for that matter, add some butter, salt and cream, and make some rustic mashed potatoes.
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When done you should have 10 skins.
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With a small spoon, being careful not to poke through the skin, scoop out about 70 percent of the potato, as you still want some potato in your boat.
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Next, melt your butter in the microwave.
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This should take 30-60 seconds or so.
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Get your broiler heated to high.
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Brush the butter on the inside and outside of each potato skin and place them back onto the baking sheet.
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Season the inside of each skin with salt and pepper.
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Place them under the broiler for 8-10 minutes until the insides get a bit crispy from the melted butter.
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Once the edges and interior are a bit crisp and golden, remove them from the oven.
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Turn off the broiler, and set the oven to 425 F.
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Add a generous amount of cheese into each potato boat.
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Top with a generous amount of ham.
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Simply divide the ham into six sections so each potato gets enough of it.
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Top with a bit more cheese.
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Place the tray back into the oven, and cook for about 5 more minutes or until the cheese is nice and bubbly.
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The end result is nothing short of amazing with these ham and potato skins.
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These are a perfect bite any time of the day, and as a matter of fact I thought they would be even more amazing with a bit of scrambled egg mixed in before baking.
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That would be a great breakfast bite!
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Regardless, these are really simple to make and made everyone happy.
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Next time I will simply need to make more of them as they went too fast.
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Hope you enjoy.
