Scrub the potatoes clean and boil them in their skins in lightly salted water until tender. Drain and let cool briefly.

Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 350 °F. Finely chop the parsley and tear the basil into pieces.

Cut the potatoes in half lengthwise and hollow them out. Place the flesh in a bowl and mix with the butter and the cream.

Fill the potato halves with the mixture. Top half of them with the bacon bits, and divide the chopped dried tomatoes over the rest.

Put the potatoes in the oven and bake until the cheese has melted and everything is heated through. Finish the potatoes with bacon strips with parsley and those with dried tomatoes with basil.