Day Twenty: One Potato, Two Potato, Three Potato, Yum!

So, I really didn't use three potatoes. I was just trying to be clever.

But I will tell you right now that these Au Gratin Potatoes are the best thing I've made in the Easy Bake so far. Seriously. Effing. Delicious.

The recipe was based on this recipe from The Pioneer Woman. Well, I say "recipe", but she believes in measurements about as much as I do, which is to say, not very much. Here's what I came up with, based mostly on her ingredients list:

1 baby red potato, sliced pretty thinly
1/4 C of heavy cream
1 1/2 T flour
Pinch of salt
3 or 4 grinds of pepper
1 tsp chopped garlic
1/4 C finely grated cheese (I used a mixture of Manchego and Irish Cheddar)

I followed the "directions" in the recipe, except she uses potato chunks and I used slices for height reasons. Whisk the flour into the cream, then add the garlic, salt, and pepper. Lay down a layer of potatoes and then put about two tablespoons of the cream mixture over them, and keep doing that until you run out of potatoes and cream. I actually had some of the cream mixture left over, but that's no shocker. I have yet to figure out how to make EXACTLY just enough of anything for one tart pan.
Cover the pan with foil and into the Easy Bake for 30 minutes.
Pull the pan out of the EBO and remove the foil. At this point, the cream had thickened and the potatoes were already cooked through.



Sprinkle a couple tablespoons of cheese over the top, and put it back into the oven for 10 more minutes, until the cheese melts.



So, I know at least one of my readers doesn't like cheese, so all that ooey gooey-ness might not seem so appealing, for a person who LOVES CHEESE, especially the particular cheeses I was using, this turned out just about as close to perfect as a potato dish can.



The potatoes were cooked through and tender, but were NOT AT ALL MUSHY. They held their shape, despite having soaked up all that delicious creamy sauce. I will absolutely, definitely make a full sized version of this recipe, calories and fat grams be damned because seriously... THIS potato whore was sat-is-fied.

I only wish I had made more.

G'night kids!