Yesterday was Gruyere.
I used a recipe from the Barefoot Contessa's Family Style cookbook. She must not cook for many people, because this recipe barely fed my family of 6. I will double it next time for sure... then we'll have leftovers!
This dish takes a little planning (for a breakfast), so it took me a while to get my act together for an early prep breakfast. I got started before anyone woke up with potato calculating, peeling and chopping. By the time I had them frying...
Cambria woke up and wanted to help :)
Once the potatoes were fried it was no big deal at all. The only things I did differently, were not adding as much basil as the recipe called for (because I didn't want to completely kill our sweet little basil plant that we've miraculously kept alive for months...)
and I didn't have a pan (yet) that could work on both the range and go in the oven. So I just heated up a pyrex pan and put everything in over the potatoes.
It worked great!
The family rated it at an average of 7-8. I would have added more cheese (I LOVE CHEESE!) but Cliff said that would be a critical error, so I guess I'll keep it the same next time even though Cambria liked it only this much...
We are definitely keeping this dish and it will probably make it's camping debut this summer with the cast iron dutch oven I recently got from a friend.
This will be even more fun with the dutch oven liners I just learned about! Easy cleanup + really good + healthy = good camping dish.
WOW! Fancy. I don't think I've ever tasted those fancy cheeses! Looks good! Glad your dutch oven was up to the task!
ReplyDeleteNow that's a lot of cheese.... I don't think my family would try any of them. You have a bunch of good sports over there. :)
ReplyDeleteThat looks like I would love eating it, it sounds delicious. I've gotta try it.
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