Bubbly Bake

Not your every day breakfast, but when you are looking for something that is cheesy and bacony, this is it.

I got this recipe from Krystal Denny, one of the ladies I worked with in Tech Support.

Ingredients

1 small bag of small cut hash browns (500 grams)

500 ml schredded marble/mozzarella cheese (pizza cheese)

250 ml of sour crème

1 onion chopped

125 ml bacon bits

Stuff you will need

Cookie sheet lined with parchment paper

Directions

Mix together.  Transfer to oven safe baking pan.  Bake 350 till golden brown.

Comments and suggestions ALWAYS welcome

Cheesie Baconie Ranch Dressing over Cubed Potatoes

Cheesie Baconie Ranch Dressing over Cubed Potatoes

OK, so this really isn't a recipe.  It's more of, if you got this stuff, you can put this together.  

If you got a heart condition, you may wish to step away right now.

Ingredients

1 package frozen cubed potatoes
1 bottle of Ranch Dressing
1 pound of cooked bacon, crumbled
1 package of shredded cheese

Stuff you will need

Parchment Paper
Cookie sheet
Hungry people that are not afraid of cholesterol

Directions

Preheat the oven to 350 F

Line the cookie sheet with parchment paper.  This stuff is great.  I really endorse this product.  It makes clean up SO much easier.

Put the first layer of cubed potatoes.  Cook them as per the instructions on the package.  Did it say to cook them at a higher temperature?  Then I rescind my previous instructions to cook them at 350 F.

Once the potatoes are cooked, add the second layer, the crumbled bacon.

Drizzle the ranch dressing across the potatoes and bacon.

Top it with the shredded cheese.

Back into the oven so that the cheese will melt.  Don't let the cheese burn.

Take it out and let it cool for a few minutes.  Put it on a plate and watch the heart attack on a plate be devoured.

As always, comments and suggestions are ALWAYS welcome.

Roast Beef, Onion and Cheese Panini Sandwich

Roast Beef, Onion and Cheese Panini Sandwich

Last weekend I cooked a roast on my Cast Iron Skillet and when I was taking the skillet out of the oven, I accidentally dumped all the beef drippings over the stove, floor and cupboard.  Good thing that Max was there to help clean up.

If you click on the photo below, you will see how smokey it got in the house while I was creating these sandwiches.

But they are so tasty.

It's like your childhood grilled cheese, only adult style.

Ingredients

Cut up a loaf of bread into slices
Roast beef, thinly sliced
Cheese slices, not the processed cheese, but real cheese, what ever your favorite cheese is.  I was using Havarti for this recipe
Medium onion, sliced up
Butter

Stuff you will need

Cutting board
Bread knife
Panini pan
Skillet to fry your onions

Directions

After you have pre-heated your pan, add about a 1/4 cup of butter and fry up the onion.

Butter one side of the slices of bread.

Heat up your Panini Pan.  Once it is hot, add the bread, buttered side down.  Add onion, roast beef and cheese, top of with a slice of bread, buttered side up.  Press down with your Panini Pan lid.

Don't wait too long, as you bread will be toasting rather quickly.  Flip over and press down again with the Panini Pan lid.

Cut up the sandwich and serve while it is still hot.  Tonya liked her sandwich with ketchup on the side.

Here is a video of me making the sandwiches:

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Scalloped Potatoes

 

I know that Amy at work, she isn't a big fan of scalloped potatoes

Not everyone is

Especially kids when the hear onions are in this

Kids just get it into their head

They don't like onions

But cut up those onions

Slice and dice

Make them really small so the kids can't see them

Peel and wash your potatoes

I got 7 here, a few were small

Using a mandolin, slice the potatoes

Be careful

Mandolins don't know the difference 

between your fingers or a potatoe

All sliced up, now put them soak in cold water

I like Chianti.

No.  It isn't for the recipe.

It's for the cook.

Fry up the onions in the butter

Add flour and create a rue

Add the milk, about a 1/2 cup at a time

Add the cheese, bacon bits, salt and pepper

Spray your oven safe casserole dish with Pam cooking spray

Layer, potatoes, cheese mix, potatoes, cheese mix

Into a dirty oven

375 F for 75 minutes

Ingredients

6 Potatoes

4 Tablespoons of Butter (Divided)

3 Tablespoons of Flour

1 Teaspoon Salt

¼ Teaspoon of Pepper

2 ½ Cups of Milk

1 Onion

¾ Cup Cheddar Cheese (Shredded)

1/3 cup Bacon Bits

Stuff you will need

Mandolin (Or patience to slice each potatoe to uniform thickness)

1 x sauce Pot

1 x oven safe casserole dish

Directions

Pre-heat the oven to 375 F.

Peel the potatoes.  Using a mandolin, cut the potatoes into slices.  Let soak in cold water.

Melt 3 tablespoons of butter in a pot and fry up the onion at medium heat.

Add the flour and continue to cook the onions till you can’t smell the flour any longer.  (When you are making a rue, there is a smell of fried flour)

Add the milk a ½ cup at a time.  Continue to mix.  Add the cheese, bacon bits salt and pepper.  Continue to stir till the cheese is melted.

In an oven proof casserole dish, spray with Pam Cooking Spray.  Then layer, potatoe, cheese mix, potatoe, cheese mix.

For added flare, I topped it with bread crumbs.

Bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes.

Comments and suggestions are ALWAYS welcome

Basic Poutine Recipe

Basic Poutine Recipe

Ingredients:

cooked French fries
cheese curds (farmer cheese or "squeaky cheese")
beef gravy

Preparation:

1. Mix French Fries and cheese curds.
2. Pour the gravy over top and wait until the cheese begins to melt.
3. Then dig in.

As always, comments and suggestions are ALWAYS welcome

Chicken Cordon Bleu

Chicken Cordon Bleu

Yesterday I decided that I would try my hand at making something that I never made before.

So too all the real cooks and chefs out there.  I offer my apologies.  But to be honest, it did taste pretty good.  I have enough for our lunches at work for the next few days.

Ingredients

4 x Boneless skinless chicken breasts
4 x Sliced Ham
4 x Swiss Cheese
1/2 cup Flour
1 x Egg
1 tablesooon cold water
Salt and Pepper
1/2 cup Bread Crumbs

Stuff you will need

A meat mallet
Cookie sheet
Parchment Paper
Saran Wrap
Patience, lots and lots of patience

Directions

Put a layer of plastic wrap on the cookie sheet.

The video I watched, the cook sliced the chicken breast in half.  Flatten the chicken breast with the flat side of the meat mallet.  Once you have a thin layer of chicken, put it on the Saran Wrap.  Put another layer and flatten another piece of chicken.  So on and so forth till they are all flattened.

Set yourself up a production station.  Starting from the end, a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper.  A shallow bowl with the bread crumbs.  Another shallow bowl with the egg wash.  3rd shallow bowl with flour.  A place to put the chicken cordon bleu together.

To create the egg wash, put the one egg into the shallow bowl.  Add water, salt and pepper.  Use a fork to mix this up like you would be doing scrambled eggs.

Start with a layer of chicken.  Put the ham and swiss cheese.  Then roll it up.  Dredge in flour.  Into the egg wash and then into the bread crumbs.  Place on the cookie sheet.

As you can see by the video, I am not an expert at this.  It looks NOTHING like the Chicken Cordon Bleu that you would purchase in a store.  But it did taste pretty good.

Heat the oven to 350 F and bake for 45 minutes.

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As always, comments and suggestions are ALWAYS welcome