"Burning Love" is a Norwegian comfort food that serves as a main dish with mashed potatoes, infused with butter, cheese, and then topped with bacon and chives. Burning Love was a traditional dish for poor farmers.

Ingredients

• 1 pound potatoes
• 1/2 pound bacon
• 2 onions
• 1/4 cup mozzarella or provolone cheese (optional)
• 2 tablespoons butter
• Salt
• Pepper
• 2 teaspoons chives or parsley

Instructions

• Peel or scrub potatoes, and boil them for 20-25 minutes in unsalted water or until tender enough to mash.
• Cut bacon into small cubes.
• Fry bacon in skillet, and place on platter with paper towel when done.
• Chop onions, and fry them in the bacon grease.
• Mash the potatoes with the cheese (if desired), butter, salt and pepper.
• Serve the mashed potatoes with onions and bacon on top.
• Sprinkle the dish with chives or parsley before serving.

Serves 4.