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Post by heartland on Aug 6, 2015 20:06:16 GMT
Well, who knew about this whole world of cheesy potatoes. This thread is cracking me up, by the way. I'm excited that I now have a whole slew of recipes for CP, both with cream o' crap and without. I have to say it doesn't really seem like a BBQ recipe but more like a Thanksgiving recipe to go along with the green bean casserole and jellied cranberry sauce. But see, that's the beauty of these WONDERFUL potatoes. It's kind of like a little black dress, you can wear it anywhere type of thing...cheesy potatoes go with anything! For Thanksgiving, with a ham for Easter or Christmas dinner, easy dish to take a potluck, everydeal meal at home with pork chops or whatnot, or at a summer BBQ. They are good hot, but I'll eat them cold or luke warmish too. I'm not a potato snob!
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Post by moveablefeast on Aug 6, 2015 20:45:45 GMT
I sometimes use organic cream-o-crap soup, if that helps. I Liked your post not because I agree with you, but because I was laughing at you. Is cool, I was laughing at myself anyway.
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Post by peano on Aug 6, 2015 21:04:01 GMT
OMG! Now we have a recipe with a shit ton of cheese, sour cream AND potato chips. I'm waiting for the one that has lard in addition to the above.
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Post by grinningcat on Aug 6, 2015 21:44:54 GMT
grinningcatFuneral Potatoes From Cook's Country | April/May 2011 \ We pitted frozen hash browns against fresh potatoes and determined that the former made for less starchy, gloppy Funeral Potatoes. Frozen hash browns were also much easier to prepare. To speed up the cooking time for our hash browns, we thawed them right in our cheese sauce. Switching from… read more Serves 8 to 10 You'll need one 30-ounce bag of frozen shredded (not cubed) hash brown potatoes. Ingredients 3 tablespoons unsalted butter 2 onions, chopped fine 1/4 cup all-purpose flour 1 1/2 cups low-sodium chicken broth 1 cup half-and-half 1 3/4 teaspoons salt 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme 1/4 teaspoon pepper 2 cups shredded sharp cheddar cheese 8 cups frozen shredded hash brown potatoes 1/2 cup sour cream 4 cups sour-cream-and-onion potato chips, crushed Instructions 1. Adjust oven rack to middle position and heat oven to 350 degrees. Melt butter in Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Cook onion until softened, about 5 minutes. Add flour and cook, stirring constantly, until golden, about 1 minute. Slowly whisk in broth, half-and-half, salt, thyme, and pepper and bring to boil. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer, stirring occasionally, until slightly thickened, 3 to 5 minutes. Off heat, whisk in cheddar until smooth. 2. Stir potatoes into sauce, cover, and cook, stirring occasionally, over low heat until thawed, about 10 minutes. Off heat, stir in sour cream until combined. 3. Scrape mixture into 13 by 9-inch baking dish and top with potato chips. Bake until golden brown, 45 to 50 minutes. Let cool 10 minutes. Serve. MAKE AHEAD: Potato mixture can be refrigerated in baking dish, covered with aluminum foil, for 2 days. To finish, bake potatoes 20 minutes. Remove dish from oven and uncover. Top with potato chips and bake until golden brown, 45 to 50 minutes. Everything in that recipe sounded great (subbing veg broth for the chix broth) until I got to the chips... what a random flavour choice! But I may give it a try for a BBQ we have coming up. Thanks for sharing!
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Post by littlemama on Aug 6, 2015 22:07:03 GMT
grinningcat I don't put the chips on. They said in the article that they chose sour cream and onion to mirror the flavors in the dish, but I wouldn't put potato chips or corn flakes or bread crumbs or crackers on this or Mac and cheese- I just wasn't raised that way!
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Post by grinningcat on Aug 6, 2015 22:11:59 GMT
grinningcat I don't put the chips on. They said in the article that they chose sour cream and onion to mirror the flavors in the dish, but I wouldn't put potato chips or corn flakes or bread crumbs or crackers on this or Mac and cheese- I just wasn't raised that way! Oh I totally agree with you in this case. That's just bizarre. I don't mind breadcrumbs on mac and cheese, but only if it's panko. The ones that look like sawdust are just wrong.
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Post by pridemom on Aug 6, 2015 22:24:59 GMT
grinningcat I don't put the chips on. They said in the article that they chose sour cream and onion to mirror the flavors in the dish, but I wouldn't put potato chips or corn flakes or bread crumbs or crackers on this or Mac and cheese- I just wasn't raised that way! Oh I totally agree with you in this case. That's just bizarre. I don't mind breadcrumbs on mac and cheese, but only if it's panko. The ones that look like sawdust are just wrong. The crushed potato chips as a topping was a bad fad in the late 70s/80s. Now it's refined with planko. Lol
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Post by grinningcat on Aug 6, 2015 22:26:31 GMT
Oh I totally agree with you in this case. That's just bizarre. I don't mind breadcrumbs on mac and cheese, but only if it's panko. The ones that look like sawdust are just wrong. The crushed potato chips as a topping was a bad fad in the late 70s/80s. Now it's refined with planko. Lol I don't know if it's refined or not, I've never had crushed chips on anything, but when it comes to breadcrumbs there is a definite difference between the sawdust stuff and panko.
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Post by Miss Lerins Momma on Aug 6, 2015 22:33:35 GMT
Cheesy potatoes are the best potatoes ever.... also known as Funeral potatoes (although I've never had them at a funeral)!
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Post by baslp on Aug 6, 2015 22:38:33 GMT
My mom would cut potatoes into cubes and boil them. She'd drain them and then add some velvet and a little milk. That was our cheesy potato dish.
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Post by Miss Lerins Momma on Aug 6, 2015 23:35:25 GMT
Well, who knew about this whole world of cheesy potatoes. This thread is cracking me up, by the way. I'm excited that I now have a whole slew of recipes for CP, both with cream o' crap and without. I have to say it doesn't really seem like a BBQ recipe but more like a Thanksgiving recipe to go along with the green bean casserole and jellied cranberry sauce. But see, that's the beauty of these WONDERFUL potatoes. It's kind of like a little black dress, you can wear it anywhere type of thing...cheesy potatoes go with anything! For Thanksgiving, with a ham for Easter or Christmas dinner, easy dish to take a potluck, everydeal meal at home with pork chops or whatnot, or at a summer BBQ. They are good hot, but I'll eat them cold or luke warmish too. I'm not a potato snob!
She is right... I've made these "cheesy potatoes" for many different events, and everyone has loved them!
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Post by doesitmatter on Aug 6, 2015 23:39:50 GMT
I was thinking you all meant twice baked potatoes or "potato boats" as we call them... but those recipes posted above for a casserole I have never seen anyone eat that or heard of them eat that- and have no idea how that goes with a bqq at all? Seems more like a breakfast thing, and still blech Is this a regional thing? It is not happening here on the west coast and in no way does it sound like a side dish for a bbq?! Never heard anyone request it or been anywhere it has been made. But most of my frineds woud rather eat fresh foods, meats (not me I'm vegan), fruits, grilled veggies and salads a bbq or in general. Go ahead flame me, but I am not eating that or serving it to anyone I know! Carry on now.
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Post by jojam on Aug 6, 2015 23:42:20 GMT
Ummmm. In this part of the world, we melt a bit of butter, stir in some crushed cornflakes and top the cheesy potatoes with that. There are other 'flake' type cereals that work as well. But not crushed potato chips. I use the recipe on the side of the Mr. Dells hash browns.
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Post by eleezybeth on Aug 6, 2015 23:42:35 GMT
Check out the Pioneer Woman's recipe for "Creamy Herbed Potatoes." The sauce is what you are looking for! You can easily tweek it to make it cheesy with cheddar or sharp with some pepper jack. Poor it over your potato of choice and viola... delish. I've made that recipe a lot of different ways and there are never any leftovers.
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Post by lucyg on Aug 6, 2015 23:51:28 GMT
This is my new favorite thread.
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Post by Nicole in TX on Aug 7, 2015 0:23:27 GMT
This is what cheesy potatoes are? I'm so disappointed and kind of scared of the canned soup being used. I thought it was just an anglicized word for au gratin. Sad face. My bubble has been burst. sunnyd has the recipe for what I thought cheesy potatoes meant. You can always make a roux from scratch if you don't want to use cream of whatever soup. That is a lot of work, though.
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Post by gmcwife1 on Aug 7, 2015 0:31:57 GMT
I was thinking you all meant twice baked potatoes or "potato boats" as we call them... but those recipes posted above for a casserole I have never seen anyone eat that or heard of them eat that- and have no idea how that goes with a bqq at all? Seems more like a breakfast thing, and still blech Is this a regional thing? It is not happening here on the west coast and in no way does it sound like a side dish for a bbq?!Never heard anyone request it or been anywhere it has been made. But most of my frineds woud rather eat fresh foods, meats (not me I'm vegan), fruits, grilled veggies and salads a bbq or in general. Go ahead flame me, but I am not eating that or serving it to anyone I know! Carry on now. I'm in the PNW and when my last department had work potlucks people always requested one person make cheesy potatoes. I never had cheesy potatoes until then. Scalloped, au gratin, yes, but never the cheesy potato (casserole). But they were always the first thing gone at the potluck!!
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Post by anxiousmom on Aug 7, 2015 0:36:56 GMT
I was thinking you all meant twice baked potatoes or "potato boats" as we call them... but those recipes posted above for a casserole I have never seen anyone eat that or heard of them eat that- and have no idea how that goes with a bqq at all? Seems more like a breakfast thing, and still blech Is this a regional thing? It is not happening here on the west coast and in no way does it sound like a side dish for a bbq?!Never heard anyone request it or been anywhere it has been made. But most of my frineds woud rather eat fresh foods, meats (not me I'm vegan), fruits, grilled veggies and salads a bbq or in general. Go ahead flame me, but I am not eating that or serving it to anyone I know! Carry on now. I'm in the PNW and when my last department had work potlucks people always requested one person make cheesy potatoes. I never had cheesy potatoes until then. Scalloped, au gratin, yes, but never the cheesy potato (casserole). But they were always the first thing gone at the potluck!! I use a recipe from a junior league cookbook from 20 years ago. I don't think it is new or regional?
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Post by oldcrow on Aug 7, 2015 0:39:39 GMT
OMG! Now we have a recipe with a shit ton of cheese, sour cream AND potato chips. I'm waiting for the one that has lard in addition to the above. You could grease your pan with the lard if you want.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2015 0:54:53 GMT
I have a package of hash browns and 2 packages of different kinds of shredded cheese (all of which i like). I have all the ingredients in the house and could have made this tonight had I opened the thread 15 min ago.
I am having frozen lasagne with tons and tons of shredded cheese on it instead. This is all my fault too for not opening the thread!!!
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Post by Suziee2 on Aug 7, 2015 0:55:45 GMT
In my house cheesy potatoes are mashed potatoes with cream cheese and lost of butter, some milk or cream, VELVEETA cubed up and whipped in with it. Then put in a casserole dish and more cubes of Velveeta poked along the top. Baked until a very nice brown crust forms around the edge of the pan. My kids (and I) fight for those edges first.
Then there are funeral potatoes, hash brown casseroles, au gratin potatoes that others call cheesy potatoes.
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Post by gmcwife1 on Aug 7, 2015 0:57:39 GMT
I'm in the PNW and when my last department had work potlucks people always requested one person make cheesy potatoes. I never had cheesy potatoes until then. Scalloped, au gratin, yes, but never the cheesy potato (casserole). But they were always the first thing gone at the potluck!! I use a recipe from a junior league cookbook from 20 years ago. I don't think it is new or regional? I don't think it's regional or new either I was replying to the poster that said they were from the west coast and thought the potatoes were regional I'm from the west coast too and have had it. It's a staple here, just not something my family made because my mom makes the best potato salad and au gratin potatoes, so no need for the cheesy potatoes.
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