Fancy Potatoes With "The Works"

If you remember from my visit to The Auslander in Fredericksburg, Texas, I left very smitten with their grand potato and resolved to recreate it at home myself.

For my homemade version I used two regular potatoes for my two pickier-than-me eaters (the hubs and the mom) and three of the... camotes for myself.

I must confess I don't really know what they are called.  In Spanish they are called camotes but in English I have not one clue.  Sweet potato?  Yam?  I don't know the difference, all I know is they are sweet and golden-y orange.

Wrapped in foil and baked @ 400º for about 40 minutes or until you can easily pierce the skin with a knife.
Exact baking time varies maybe more, maybe less, depending on the size of your particular specimen, your oven, your altitude and how much foil you wrapped them in.

My potatoes were a bit more nutritious than The Auslander's (a perk of homemade customizations.)
For one thing I added some frozen veggie mix which consisted of carrots, broccoli and zucchini.
Whenever we make something with a lot of toppings we call it "The Works" and these veggies definitely help fill this potato with "The Works".

I kept the sausage, a locally made sweet basil variety.  As you can see not much of it was left over but the next day I ate my potato without and it was still very filling.

Of course I kept the cheese!  Shredded mozzarella this time as opposed to the swiss used in the original.

For the finishing touch I added a generous amount of sauerkraut.  I thought it might compete a little with the sweetness of the potato but it didn't.  It actually added a little zing.
So for the construction I split a potato in half, piled on the sauerkraut, two slices of sausage (I'm not much of a meat girl), the mixed veggies and sprinkled it with cheese and then microwaved it for 30 seconds to melt the cheese.
I actually was only able to eat half a potato because it was really too much for me.  I tend not to eat a large amount but I eat quite often.  It's really huge and mostly fiber filled veggies so it will fill you up and keep you feeling full for quite a while.

With all the flavor of the sweet potato and the sauerkraut you can easily do a vegan/vegetarian version of this and you won't miss a thing.  I actually ate my other two potatoes without the meat and cheese trappings and it was still tasty so it's a very vegan/vegetarian friendly dinner.