Black Dog Smoke & Ale House Twice-Baked Potato Casserole Recipe
Here's another recipe from a local restaurant/bar. This time it's the twice-baked potato casserole from the Black Dog, C-U's newest BBQ joint. You may remember that I did a review of the place back in February. Michelle of Champaign requested this recipe just recently. What, you say?! I requested a recipe months ago and I haven't seen it yet!
Well, since I haven't been able to pry some of the older requests out of local chefs' hands, and since Mike at the Black Dog was kind enough to share it with me yesterday when Keith and I were there chowing down on pulled pork, I'm going to skip ahead in the order and give you this one. I'm still hoping I may be able to get some of the older requests, so keep watching.
Now, the recipe serves 25 to 30 people, so if you're not cooking for a very large crowd, you're going to have to play with it and cut it down. But I have faith in you.Twice-Baked Potato Casserole
Courtesy of the Black Dog Smoke & Ale House
10 pounds new potatoes
12 slices bacon, cooked
4 cups shredded Cheddar cheese
4 cups sour cream
8 green onions, sliced
1 cup milk
1/2 pound butter
Salt and pepper to taste
Boil new potatoes until cooked through. Chop the cooked bacon into small pieces. Put the potatoes and bacon into a large bowl. Add the Cheddar cheese, sour cream, onions, milk, and butter, season to taste with salt and pepper, and mash everything together until well blended. Spoon the mixture into a baking pan and bake at 350 °F for 35 minutes.
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And there you have it! Pretty simple, eh? Many thanks to Mike at the B.D. for sharing the recipe; we appreciate it.
Oh, and tomorrow (Saturday, July 18), Mike will be serving smoked local, free-range chicken at the Black Dog. So if you can make it over there, you'll be able to enjoy chicken raised by local farmers and great sides like red-cabbage cole slaw, pit beans, sweet potato fries—and of course, the twice-baked potato casserole.
The Black Dog Smoke and Ale House
201 North Broadway Ave.
Urbana, IL 61801
217-344-9334
Open Monday through Saturday at 11 a.m. Closed on Sundays. (Note that starting this fall, the B.D. will be open 7 days a week.)
Have a favorite dish at a local restaurant that you'd like to have the recipe for? E-mail me at champaigntaste AT gmail DOT com and I'll do my best to get it for you.
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posted by Lisa at 6:57 AM
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7 Comments:
We love Black Dog! Haven't had the casserole yet, but will try it next time. This place helps fill what I see as a gap of family-friendly, non-chain, good restaurants in town. There are a lot of nice restaurants that I wouldn't take my kid too, and a lot of kid-friendly restaurants that are chains and/or just not that good.
We were just there last night as well! My wife and I have probably gone there 5 or 6 times since reading the initial review on your site. I don't know what it was about last night but the sweet potato fries we ordered were the crispiest yet!
Thuis place is one of the best, most consistent joints around. Bravo!
Kirstin, I agree with your assessment. Thanks for the comment.
Anthony: I love those sweet potato fries! The first time I had them they weren't crispy, but since then they've been stellar. Can't get enough of the pit beans, either.
Anon: I agree here too. Bravo, Black Dog!
So many things here to try. That lamb is so fresh and I can just imagine how good the kebabs must be.
Thanks so much for the recipe--we made over the weekend (dividing everything by 4) and it turned out amazing, just like we remembered from Black Dog! Even reduced, it probably made enough for 4-6 generous servings.
Michelle, I'm so glad it worked out! I want to try it soon; thanks for the notes on doing a quarter-recipe.
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