Friday, October 21, 2011

Accordion Potatoes



If you are looking for a highly decadent, throw-calories-to-the-wind, absolutely scrumptious take on a baked potato meets scalloped potatoes au gratin, then boy do I have something for you! I found this recipe on the blog, Look Who’s Cookin’ Now. It was simple to make, yet oh so fancy to serve! And the taste? it cannot be described! This recipe is for two potatoes. I didn’t measure any of the ingredients...just eyeball it- it’s impossible to mess these up!

2 large baking potatoes
cold butter, cut into thin slices
block of Parmesan, cut into thin slices
salt & pepper
olive oil
heavy cream
shredded cheddar

Preheat oven to 400F

Clean potatoes. Slice each potato many many times down the width of the potato. Be careful to NOT slice all the way through the potato.

Slide a slice of butter in between a potato slice; then slide a slice of Parmesan- keep alternating butter and cheese until you have filled each slice on the potato making it resemble an accordion (I did not use the whole stick of butter- but if you want to, go for it!). Carefully place potatoes on a foil lined, rimmed baking sheet. Drizzle the potatoes with a bit of olive oil (maybe 1 Tbl per potato). Salt & pepper them. Place potatoes in the oven for 1 hour.

When you take the potatoes out of the oven you will want to gobble them right up right away...but, be patient, there is more! Drizzle each potato with heavy cream (about 1 Tbl per potato). And top each potato with a good helping of shredded cheddar cheese! Return to the oven for another 15 minutes until cheese is nice and bubbly. Remove potatoes from oven - now you will really want to gobble them up! Not yet! Top each spud with a nice wallop of sour cream- why not?! To make yourself feel better, serve with a veggie heavy spinach salad! Enjoy!

3 comments:

  1. Stone is looking at that and is all "you WILL make that for dinner tomorrow" so I'm making that for dinner tomorrow..... And Screw it, I'm adding bacon because, In for a penny, in for a pound.

    Thanks Kelly! :-)

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  2. that and i'll add a nice juicy NY strip, word! I better run tomorrow so I can help the badonkadonk butt!

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  3. hi kelly - love your recipes. and this one i did make. it was fabulous... the t(w)engagers even loved it !! it took some time but was fun to make. thanks again ! hope your new home is great !!

    sitting on my front porch enjoying 75 in january =) ... janet evans

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