Baked Potato: Cooking Instructions, Please

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Didn't feel like making a whole new thread, but anyone have any good quick sides or dishes to make with potatoes? For example breakfast hashbrowns? I can't seem to ever make them as good as any breakfast restaurants, then again i suck at cooking.

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chop up some bacon. cook it in a big cast iron frying pan. remove bacon. put in some chopped up onions. when golden, remove with a slotted spoon. take some sliced par-boiled potatoes and give them a quick browning in the leftover bacon grease, adding oil/lard/whatever if needed. add bacon/onions back in and mix, letting heat up for a while. if you want add some paprika/salt/pepper/whatever at this point; i don't add anything.

way better than any diner or whatever.