Grilled Bacon Potatoes

Ingredients

• baking potatoes, scrubbed
• 1/4 teaspoon ssalt
• slice sbacon
• tablespoon solive oil for brushing
• cup brown sugar
• tablespoon sfreshly ground black pepper

Instructions

1. Preheat an outdoor grill for medium high, indirect heat.
2. Cut each potato into 5 thick slices, without cutting all the way through. Place potatoes onto squares of aluminum foil.
3. Sprinkle 1/4 teaspoon salt into the sliced areas of a potato, then wrap potato with 3 slices of bacon, securing with toothpicks if needed. Brush potato with about 1 1/2 tablespoon olive oil, then sprinkle with 1/4 cup brown sugar and 1 1/2 tablespoons black pepper. Wrap potato loosely in the foil. Repeat to prepare remaining potatoes.
4. Grill potatoes on the preheated grill over indirect heat until bacon is crisp and potato is soft in the center, 30 to 45 minutes. Carrie C.