So with all the time I spent looking over Pioneer Woman's site a couple of weeks ago, I've only fixed one recipe so far: Crash Hot Potatoes . And they were good.
But I had to make a couple of changes, of course. I noticed that this recipe, sent to Pioneer Woman by an Australian reader, was conspicuously lacking in bacon bits. And cheese.
Well, we could fix that.
As I set the potatoes to cook, I also loaded my broiler pan with a batch of bacon and baked it off. I prefer to cook my bacon in the oven unless I'm going to specifically be needing the grease in the skillet later. Not an issue here, so into the oven it went. After removing the pan from the oven, I set the slices on toweling and poured the grease that was in the bottom of the broiler pan up into a measuring cup.
After the potatoes were cooked and smashed, I brushed the bacon grease over them. After all, Pioneer Woman's great-grandmother-in-law Addie surely wouldn't have used some fool thing like olive oil when there was perfectly good bacon grease around. Besides, I'm a Texas girl living in Alabama. Bacon grease is my heritage!
Then I salted and sprinkled around a little herbage. A very little herbage. Because this was take 2 of this recipe, and 9 year old Cupcake complained that I used to many herbs the first time I made them. Sigh.
And so into the oven. As they were baking, I crumbled the bacon and grated some cheese. After 15 minutes or so, I removed the potatoes and sprinkled them with cheese, and cooked for about 5 more minutes. Once they came out, I sprinkled the bacon bits all around and stood and inhaled deeply. And thought of things I could send my children to do when they came into the kitchen to see what smelled so good.
There you have it. A somewhat sophisticated herbal treat turned into a big ol' Southern grease-fest. Man, that's good. I think we'll have it again Friday.
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Sep. 10, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Posted by smallworldathome.blogspot.com
I made those once and thought they were rather bland. Bacon would definitely help!!