Tasty Tuesday - Scalloped Potatoes with Cheese

Today's Tasty Tuesday is brought to you by Little S.  She loves potatoes - anything with potatoes!  So when she requested scalloped potatoes I suggested that she make them and post about them.  So without further ado -

Scalloped Potatoes - With CHEESE ! made by Little S

I, Little S, am typing this on Monday which just so happens to be National Bacon Lovers day. So happy belated bacon lovers day readers!

The source

So for the actual scalloped potatoes recipe we got it from The Good Housekeeping Cookbook 125th Anniversary edition. The full and original recipe requires:

3 tablespoons butter or margarine
1 small onion, chopped
3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1 1/2 cups milked, warmed
1 tablespoon salt
1/8 teaspoons black pepper
2 pounds all-purpose potatoes (how can potatoes be all-purpose?) (6 medium), peeled and thinly sliced

Peeling

Prep: 30 minutes          Bake: 1 hour 30 minutes

We added cheese because I love cheesy anything. We didn't get the exact measurement and you don't have to add cheese. I just think it tastes better that way. If you are going to add cheese use however much you please.

 Step 1: Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. In a heavy 2-quart saucepan, melt butter over low heat. Add onion and cook until tender, about 5 minutes. (Because the butter and onions took so long to cook we went ahead arranged the first layer of potatoes while we waited.)

Butter & Onions

Add flour and cook, stirring, 1 minute. With wire whisk, gradually whisk in warm milk. Cover over medium heat, stirring constantly with wooden spoon, until sauce has thickened and boils. Reduce heat and simmer, stirring frequently, 1 minutes. Stir in salt and pepper; remove from heat.

Step 2 (go here if your butter and onions are taking a long time): Grease 9-inch square baking dish or a shallow 2-quart casserole. Arrange half of potatoes in single layer (it was more like a double layer but it's fine who cares it's food) in prepared dish; pour half of sauce on top. (We put the cheese on before the sauce.)

Potatoes & Cheese waiting for sauce

Repeat layers.

Last bit of sauce on top.

Cover and bake 1 hour. Remove cover and bake until potatoes are tender and top is golden, about 30 minutes longer. Makes 6 accompaniment servings.

Needs to go back in for another 30 minutes!

The original recipe gives these nutritional facts: Each serving has about 199 calories, 5g protein, 28g carbohydrate, 8g total far, 24mg cholesterol, 484mg sodium. We added a whole lot of cheese so it probably wasn't this exactly but it's cheese.

Served with ham steak!!

We normally only make this if we have a family dinner with our cousins or something so its kinda cool that we are having it on a normal Monday night.

I hope you guys enjoyed that.

I don't know what you guys were expecting. I might be back for like book reviews (my mom and I were just talking about that) or if I happen to make food on a Monday night that my mom wants on her blog. I honestly don't know if I'll write something on this blog again.  I had fun but you guys get to choose if you liked this.

                                           Sincerely, Me (Little S)