Potato Casserole: Updated to include detail orientated recipe 8 8 2023

 

Green pepper and bacon in there.

I didn't want this to be something that takes a long time to cook, so I made it differently.

Ingredients list:

4 Idaho potatoes

1 green pepper

Half a bacon packet

2 slices smoke flavored provolone

1/4 cup 4 mex shred cheese

French fry seasoning

Red jar seasoning

1 T butter

2 Pinch of salt

1/2 cup yoghurt

1/4 cup whole wheat flour

Instructions:

Put a saucepan half full of water on the stove, add a pinch of salt and turn the heat on.

Concurrently get a large frying pan and cut the bacon into 2 inch strips and start cooking it on medium.  Turn when time to.  When done drain on paper towels.

Peel the four potatoes and slice them into a little less than quarter inch slices and add to the boiling water.

Get a casserole dish out and put about 1/2 cup of the plain yoghurt in the bottom of it.  Add some of the seasoning salt and stir it.

Cut a green pepper up into about half inch chunks.

Turn on oven to preheat oven to 420 degrees.

Rough directions.

The potatoes are done when you stick a fork down in there and they fall off easy.  But you don't want them too done so that they mash up.  Take a straining spoon and add them to the casserole dish.  Do not throughout that boiling water, you aren't done on that burner yet.  Cut the cooked bacon up smaller with scissors and add the bacon to the casserole dish and stir.  Add the cheeses to casserole dish and lightly stir. Add the green pepper and lightly stir.  Or just add all the stuff and lightly stir once.

Leave about one inch of potato water in the pot and add about a quarter cup of whole wheat flour to it.  Add some butter and a pinch of salt.  Boil the heck out of this fast and stir it all the time.  Then pour it in the casserole dish.  Everything should be in the casserole dish now.

How do you lightly stir something like this?  The goal is that when you have a spoon on your plate you get a bite of everything in that spoon of it?  So you just lightly stir it a few times and don't think about it too much.  If you are mashing the potatoes in there you are not doing this recipe right.

Put it in the oven for 20 minutes.  Purpose to set the ingredients together.  That is about how long it will take it to start to bubble/boil and that is when I pulled it out.

Tasted really good.

The great thing about this recipe is that you are not hemming and hawing and wondering if the potatoes are cooked.  They were cooked when you put them in the oven.  And this recipe seems to go faster to completion.  And with this recipe there is none of that, oh is my internal temperature at 168 degrees or not.  You can leave that infra red thermometer alone with this one.

And if you have some experience at the kitchen stove you should be able to get this recipe right.  Just play fast and loose with the ingredients like I did.  Didn't have one measuring cup out.

© 2023 Thomas Murphy