Every now and then you see a fellow blogger’s creation that takes your fancy. Rather than leave a comment ‘I want to make that’ and then immediately forget about it, you just go ahead and make it. Now such a thing happened when I found this recipe for Dauphinoise potatoes by the Greedy Frog. I found it via another blog but I can’t remember which one, yes I can it’s at 5 Kinds of Rice
Anyway the key thing with the recipe is that, contrary to popular belief, there is no room for cheese. Unfortunately I couldn’t deal with that revelation so I shoved a load of cheese in mine.
Now what I liked about this particular recipe was the way it served up – a lovely fondanty stack of layered potatoes.
Ingredients
- One non-stick loaf tin or a dish, well buttered
- 2 cloves of garlic
- about 2 oz of butter cut into little chunks
- 3 or 4 large potatoes (depending on the size of your dish)
- 2 eggs
- 1 pint of milk
- half a small tub of creme fraiche (optional)
- Cheese (again optional)
- Ground nutmeg and dried herbs
First off butter the loaf tin:
Peel the potatoes and slice thinly (2 to 3mm thick). Whisk the eggs into the milk:
What’s with that bloody wine glass? Its in every post I do…
Put four or five lumps of butter in the bottom of the tin and place a layer of potatoes on top:
Add some of the milk and egg mix to the tin and then, if using, add some lumps of cheese:
Repeat this process until you run out of stuff or reach the top of the tin. Dot the remaining butter on the top and sprinkle with herbs and nutmeg:
Bake in the oven for an hour or so at about 180 C or until the potatoes let a knife pass through them easily:
We served ours up with some salmon fillet with chilli sauce – definitely a winner!
Look at those lovely layers of stacked creamy potatoes…
oh wow, these look great. I may just have to run and make them myself.
well worth the effort
Mine never cook… I think I’m going to try again and slow-cook them for several centuries and see if it improves them!
Yes cover and slow cook – they dont burn that way
One of my favorite potato dishes, and yours looks delicious. Glad you always cook with wine – either in the recipe or not.
Either way it works well!
Absolutely love it! Yes, I am guilty of stockpiling recipes that I want to make too! But I can see how the combination of potatoes, butter, milk, and cheese might prove irresistible
Great looking dish!
Yes Im assuming it was nice given I never actually tried it. Not a bit. Not one iota – not me. Salad and lean chicken – that’s me.
Awwww! That’s rough!
Everything is better with cheese and that glass of wine is always a good addition too.
Cheese and wine constitute reality
They look amazing! My mother in Law is French and she makes and amazing version of this dish. The kids love it
Of its definitely a French dish this one
Thankfully you’ve added cheese! It wouldn’t be the same without it and I love that you’ve served it in stacks, it looks so professional!
I love those food rings (or tubes, as Gary Lum calls them)
Love a potato bake!
With meat! I was thinking of fillet steak but we only had salmon….
Mmm, potatoes, milk, butter, cheese … sounds like a winner to me!
Yes it all comes together and its dead easy!
That’s definitely my sort of dish, lots of comfort in there. I’ve never tried the nutmeg on the top, but my mum used to make a lovely white sauce with nutmeg to go on top of cauliflower so having been reminded of it, I will certainly try the nutmeg on my next go at Dauphinoise Potatoes. Lovely dish, beautifully written up. Yum!
Cauliflower cheese – a guilty pleasure! (with breadcrumbs)
Lol at the addition of cheese! This is what cooking is all about isn’t it? Cook what you feel like eating, nevermind what the recipe says!
Oh, and I like the wine glass, too! I always seem to have one kicking about in my kitchen as well…
Wine and cheese – actually who needs potatoes anyway!
Mmm…potato bake. Love it.
yes the salmon side was okay but a steak would have finished it nicely
looks delicious! not for those on a diet, is it (not that I am on a diet, not until Tomorrow
no, dieting does not correlate with this bad boy. The trick is to cook it, smell it, serve it, and then hit some low calorie white wine and watch the feasting from afar…
low calorie white wine? does such a thing exist? can’t be really wine….
It does exist but its totally pointless, like a chocolate teapot
chocolate teapot? gosh your post gets more bonkers by the minute… must be all that low calorie wine…
Looks scrummy and sounds similar to my cheese and potato pie. Like the idea of putting garlic in it!
Yes I guess the garlic adds something although i didnt really notice
Looks like the absolute best comfort food for a hurricane! Can’t wait to try.
We are actually surprised over here – this kind of thing usually happens on the other side of the world – and over here we have a saying – when America sneezes, Britain catches a cold…
I thought you were on a diet? Awesome looking potatoes.
Best,
C
Yes I am on a diet but I cant work out what the diet is actually trying to achieve
Well I’m printing this one out now before we lose power AGAIN! Probably have to wait until Hurricane Sandy blows through before cooking, but it really looks awesome. Cripes, we’re just on the very fringe of the storm now & things are looking bad. At least we got the basics – my husband went out last night for any final critical things & came back with more batteries & potato chips. Should be fine with that.
We could not believe how bad that storm turned out – we are so used to hysterical news reporting over here we expect things to turn out okay – but not this time…
We lucked out west of Boston – had a transformer blow at the very beginning of the storm & were only down for a few hours. Lots of flickering so I wasn’t about to start a meal & get halfway through. New York & New Jersey – all I can say is Wow! They are going to be a long time getting back to normal. The flooding is unbelievable & still lots of people w/o power. Now I hear by next week though we’re probably going to get a Nor’Easter which for us will be snow, cold & wind. Thinking about getting a generator.
Yes just seen the marathon is off, which is reasonable given the damage. In this country we would be back to the stone age if something like that happened
This looks amazing – and the presentation is so very fun! Now I know what I’ll be doing with that little bag of taters that’s fixing to grow eyes on me!
Yes when you’ve got more spuds than you know what to do with this is the recipe to go for!
with or without cheese they really are bloody lovely aren’t they,
Yes perfect soul food!