Singular Scene

So Singular in Each Particular

Further Kitchen Adventures

by

Original Recipe sourced here

In these days of recession, from time to time you may be invited somewhere with an instruction to ‘bring a plate’ (which, of course, means bring a plate with something on it to share for dinner… rather than bring a piece of crockery from which to partake of your meal…).

If you’re anything like me, you may be a little bit hopeful that one of the other participants may bring that bastion of pot luck dinners… the humble scalloped potato.  It’s great cheap food and a little of it goes a looong way!!! And ooh, goodness, doesn’t it taste goooood!

It was my turn to take these babies to dinner last night and in order not to break the belts of everyone there with the usual cream or cream soup based dish I found a recipe that calls for a much less calorie rich ingredient list.. (and so I added the things (like bacon and cheese) you wouldn’t add if you were calorie minded and were basing the whole thing in cream.

For the life of me I can’t figure out why the images are out of order in pictobrowser. If you click through to Flickr you’ll find them in order I don’t have time today to paste them all in individually! You’re clever, you’ll get the idea!!


 INGREDIENTS

    * 5 large potatoes, peeled and thinly sliced
    * 120 g chopped onion
    * 45 g butter or margarine
    * 30 g all-purpose flour
    * 415 ml chicken broth
    * 30 ml mayonnaise
    * 5 g salt
    * 0.3 g pepper
    * Paprika

DIRECTIONS

   1. In a greased 2-1/2-qt. baking dish, layer potatoes and onion (and bacon pieces and a little bit of Parmesan cheese if desired). In a saucepan, melt the butter; stir in flour until smooth. Gradually add broth, mayonnaise, salt and pepper; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thick and bubbly. Pour over potatoes. Sprinkle with paprika. Cover and bake at 325 degrees F for 2 hours or until tender.


Comments

  2. misslisa says

    Known as potato bake in Tasmania .. and it’s on every table at every barbeque at every house you’ll go to :) … except maybe mine unless I’m feeling in the mood!
    mind you, it’s basically potato (Dutch Creams are best, absolutely flippin’ unbeatable!), cream, milk, bacon, and garlic .. lots of garlic!
    mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
    mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
    mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
    mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
    mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, Yummy!

  3. Aunty Helpful Dictator says

    looks delicious… like Misslisa I’d go for the cheesey garlic variety. Bacon is the superhero of ingredients – if any savoury food is lacking something bacon will make it better… mmmm bacon….

  4. Freddysmama says

    It was soooooooo good!
    I had the leftovers cold and they were just as good! Next time round, you’re on potato bake again!

  5. LQ says

    These look awesome – I have tons of potatoes just begging for something creamy and bacony and cheesey ;-) Thanks for posting this!! (Found you through Flickr :-)