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Texas Tater Casserole

Put a bag of thawed tater tots in a greased 9x13 glass casserole

In saucepan, melt:

1 Pint Half and Half
1/4 Lg Log Velveeta
1/2 Stick Butter
4 oz Cream Cheese
Whisk until smooth
Add 2 TBSP Chives
2 TBSP Minced Onion
2 tsp Garlic Powder
Pour over Tater Tots
Bake at 375' 60 minutes

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My Six Favorite Potato Recipes

Quick Potato Soup

2 1/2 cups water

1 froz bag (28oz) O'Brien Potatoes

8 pieces crispy bacon

2 1/2 cups milk

Boil water
Add froz. potatoes
Simmer 15 minutes
Reduce heat & add milk and seasonings
*Don't ever let your soup boil after you add milk to it
If you have a chunk of Velveeta you should add that too.

Make Your Own Dry Potato Soup Mix

2 Cups Instant Potato Flakes

2 Cups Dry Powdered Milk

1 TBSP Chicken Bouillon

2 TBSP Dried Onion

1 small package Bacon Bits

Mix up and store in a plastic thing like Tupperware

Then, to make one bowl, you just mix 1/2 cup soup mix with 1 Cup boiling water.

*This recipe makes 7 bowls

At the risk of repeating myself, because this needs to be repeated, and you can't make the next recipe or many others without it. I implore (haha always wanted to use that word) you to get some! If they don't have it in your store, go to Amazon and buy a case of 12 boxes for $17. It will last you a year, and is a small price to pay for something that will change your life and make everything you fix taste like you are a gourmet chef. It is one of my greatest discoveries, and has even been the reason for many of my recipes winning prizes!

You add it to tuna as a seasoning, spaghetti sauce, pot roast, add it to softened butter and parm for the best garlic bread paste you will ever taste in your life. Then use that paste to broil a turkey sandwich on Texas Toast the next day. It's a must for all your soups and stews. Whisk it into melted butter and drizzle over your popcorn, put it in the crockpot with some frozen corn and Philly cream cheese, cut little pockets into your steaks and roasts before you cook them and fill the pockets with this. Put 1 pkt into a plastic bag with corn flake crumbs to make your own way better version of shake and bake for your chicken. You have to use it on your Thanksgiving turkey too. You will lay awake at night wondering..."How did I ever get along without this seasoning?" I know I do. Okay Potato Recipe #3:

Hot Garlic Bacon Potato Salad (Prize winner #1)

Boil 5-6 med. red or yellow potatoes

(late Saturday night LOL) But really, for this recipe you should boil the potatoes ahead of time and cool them in the fridge because then when you chop them they don't smoosh all up, you can make nice little pieces.

8 crispy bacon

1 small chopped sauteed red onion (do this while the potatoes are boiling)

2 tsp brown roasted garlic in a jar (from the produce section)

Natures Seasons this is the perfect seasoning. It's your salt, pepper, garlic and celery salt all rolled into one. Another "must have." (sick)

Boil potatoes 25 minutes

Throw in 2 eggs to boil with the potatoes

Sprinkle bacon over the potatoes

In a large bowl, whisk together 1/2 of 1 pkt. of Lipton garlic herb seasoning

with 3-4 TBSP Miracle Whip (not too much, just to moisten it up)

add 2 TBSP heavy cream or half & half

Serve warm

*Fun Fact*

I HATE PICKLES. Their juice, the smell, the color, their appearance and texture sends me reeling. I'm even more repulsed by mustard, so I strictly forbid all of you from adding these 2 ingredients to any of my recipes. Okay thanks

Now, FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, I will now offer you, my (2) loyal followers, my prize winning

Baked Potato Salad Supreme

Preheat oven to 425'

Cool them in the fridge the chop them up

Now, make the sauce:

3/4 cup sour cream

1/2 Cup Miracle Whip or mayonnaise

1 4oz Philly cream cheese, room temp.

2 TBSP dried onion flakes

2 TBSP Lipton herb garlic

8 slices crispy crumbled maple flavored bacon

(or your own sugar plum bacon,

and if you haven't checked that out yet, go now and make some!)

The sugar plum bacon might sound gross but I make it on Christmas morning and 4 packages of bacon isn't even enough, it's the kind of thing you think you won't like, but you can't stop yourself when you're eating it, trust me. (and I know you do) Because I would never suggest that you make anything with gross ingredients in it.

Oh the recipe was over with. You can chill it or eat it hot

Okay, now for 2 alternative side dishes, especially for Thanksgiving

You know how you never have room on Thanksgiving for both stuffing and potatoes, but you feel obligated to yourself to have both? Okay, this solves that.

Corn Bread Stuffing Potatoes

1 bag frozen hashbrowns (the country kind are good)

2 cups sour cream

1/2 cup melted butter

1/4 cup dried onion

1 can cream of celery soup

1 box Peppridge Farm corbnbread stuffing & seasoning mix

1 cup grated swiss cheese

In a large bowl, mix everything except the stuffing

The melted butter and stuffing mix is to sprinkle on top

Spread the other stuff in a greased 9x13 glass casserole

Bake 350' 40 minutes

Garlic Chive Potato Casserole Prize winner #2

First, cook 2 pkgs of your fave kind of instant potatoes

When they are mashed potatoes, mix them in a large bowl with

one container of Philly whipped cream cheese with chives

1 clove chopped garlic (or the jar kind)

1 1/2 cups chive chip dip

Then get out your hammer or just put on your plastic gloves and smash up some

flavored chips like 2-3 cups

Melt 2 TBSP butter

The butter and chips are for the top

Bake in 9x13 glass casserole for 1 hr. at 350'

I'm starving now, I haven't made these for 5 years because it's so hot

in Arizona you don't think to cook, it isn't like where I used to have seasons

that reminded you of cooking certain things.

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Cracker Barrel Hashbrown Casserole

If you live somewhere where they have Cracker Barrel restaurants, you will know how exciting it is to know how they make their hashbrown casserole. It is a well guarded secret, but I used to know someone on "the inside!"

1 (26 oz) Bag Frozen Country Style Hashbrowns
2 Cups Shredded Colby Cheese
1/2 Cup Minced Onion
1 Cup Milk
1/2 Cup Canned Beef Broth
2 TBSP Melted Butter, plus butter to grease your dish (another 2 TBSP)
2 tsp Garlic Powder

Preheat Oven to 425'
In large bowl, combine hashbrowns, cheese and onion
In smaller bowl, combine broth, milk, the melted butter and garlic powder
Pour over hashbrowns
Transfer to very buttery large casserole
Bake for 60 minutes at 425'

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Sour Cream Potato and Bacon Soup

8 Slices Crisp Crumbled Bacon
(Save grease)
1 Clove Minced Garlic
1 Small Chopped Onion
1 tsp Oregano
1/2 Cup Sour Cream
6 Potatoes
2 14 oz. Cans Chicken Broth
2 TBSP Flour
3 Cups Milk
3 Cups Sharp, smoked shredded Cheddar
Chives

Bake the potatoes for 45 minutes at 350', cool in fridge
Fry bacon, then sautee' onion and garlic in grease
Chop potatoes, add to saucepan with chicken broth
Cover and simmer about 40 minutes
Blend flour with 1/4 Cup of the milk, add to pan, stir
Stir in the rest of milk, add cheese
Right before serving, stir in sour cream
Decorate with bacon and chives

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Garlic New Potato Casserole

These are really "fancy" scalloped potatoes, almost too pretty to eat

*They are worth the trouble*
2 lbs. Tiny New Potatoes, sliced
1/2 Cup Diced Red Onion
3 Cloves Minced Garlic (or use 2 TBSP of the jar kind)
3 TBSP Butter
3 TBSP Flour
1 1/2 tsp dried,crushed Rosemary
1 3/4 Cup Milk
1 Small red Pepper, cut into matchstick strips
2 Cups White Cheddar Cheese
1/2 Cup Fine Bread Crumbs

Preheat Oven 375'
Grease 2 QT Baking dish
In lg saucepan, boil potatoes for 5 minutes until just tender
Drain potatoes and transfer to lg mixing bowl
In same saucepan, cook onion and garlic in butter
Whisk in flour, rosemary, then milk
Cook until thick and bubbly
Add red pepper to potatoes
Pour sauce over potatoes and stir gently
Transfer to greased baking dish
Top with cheese
Melt 1 TBSP Butter, mix with bread crumbs
Sprinkle on top of cheese
Bake 25-30 minutes 375'

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Crunchy Onion and Garlic Mashed Potato Bake

Hot Mashed Potatoes (3 Cups)
1 Cup Sour Cream
1 tsp Garlic Powder
1/4 Cup Milk
1 1/2 Cups French's French fried Onions
1 Cup Shredded Swiss or Cheddar Cheese
(Yes, use instant potatoes!)

Preheat oven to 350'
Combine mashed potatoes, sour cream,milk and garlic powder in bowl
Spoon half of the potatoes into a 2 qt baking dish
Sprinkle with half of the onions, and half of the cheese
Top with remaining potato mixture
Bake 30 minutes
Top with the rest of the onions and cheese
Bake 5 more minutes

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Crunchy Sour Cream and Onion Potatoes

8 medium potatoes, cooked and sliced
1 Stick Butter
1 Cup Sour Cream
1/2 pkt Lipton Onion Soup Mix
1 Can Cream of Celery Soup
2 Cups Grated Cheddar Cheese
2 Cups Milk
3/4 Cups Crushed Cornflakes
2 TBSP Melted Butter

Cook and slice potatoes
In saucepan, combine butter, milk, soup mixes, sour cream and cheese
When well blended, pour sauce over potatoes
Combine cornflakes and 2 TBSP Butter
Sprinkle over potatoes
Bake 35 minutes at 350'

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Potato and Gravy Casserole

This is the casserole I made all the time when I was first learning to cook. It is so easy and good. People always say that, "oh this is delicious." They'll say it about any recipe! I'm so tired of that, so I hate saying it myself. I won't put a recipe on here that isn't good, or that I haven't made more than once. Everyone's tastes are different, of course. But I feel like you can tell if you'll like something by reading the ingredients.

For instance, I wouldn't even consider eating anything with mustard, mushrooms, pickles, or olives in it. I know I don't like those things! I've tasted mustard by accident many times (thanks, McDonalds) and I've smelled pickles..UGH. The texture of a slimy mushroom sends me reeling! That's why you will not find these ingredients in any of my recipes. I also hate when a recipe says to add "mixed vegetables." Gross! Vegetables were meant to be eaten 1 at a time. I only like asparagus, green beans and corn, but not canned! (I know, nobody asked)

4 Cups Frozen(Thawed) Diced Hashbrowns
1 lb Hamburger
1 Cup Water
1 pkg Brown Gravy Mix (Knorr is best)
1 tsp Garlic Salt
3 TBSP Oil
2 Cups Shredded Cheddar Cheese
1 Can French Fried Onions (French's)

Preheat Oven to 400'
Combine potatoes and oil, and press into bottom and up sides of 8x12 baking dish
Bake for 15 minutes
While it's baking, cook hamburger, drain
Whisk your gravy packet into 1 Cup Water (I use a measuring cup)
Stir this into the hamburger, add garlic salt
Remove from heat and stir in 1/2 the cheese and 1/2 the onions
Spoon into hot potato shell
Reduce Oven to 350'
Bake 15 more minutes
Top with the rest of cheese and onions, bake 5-7 more minutes

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Apple Cornbread and Sausage Stuffing

Don't be scared, you can make your own stuffing. I love Stovetop as much as anyone, but why not just try making your own once? And when you do, this is the recipe to use.

1 Jimmy Dean sausage roll
1 Red Onion, diced
6 TBSP Butter
2 Celery Stalks, diced
1 Apple, peeled and diced
5 Cups Stale Crumbled White Bread
3 Cups Crumbled Stale Corn Bread
1/2 Cup Chopped Pecans
2 tsp Celery Salt
1 TBSP Sage
1 TBSP Thyme
1/2 Cup turkey drippings or chicken broth
1/4 Cup Applesauce
1 Large Egg

Preheat Oven to 350'
In skillet, cook sausage, transfer it to large bowl
Drain pan, leave a little grease in for flavor
Melt butter in skillet, add onions, celery, and apple
Cook stirring, about 5 minutes
Add this mixture to bowl with sausage
Add breads, pecans and seasonings to this
In a small bowl, combine turkey drippings, applesauce and egg
Add to stuffing mixture and combine well
Transfer to a large buttered baking dish
Cover with foil, Bake 30 minutes
Remove foil for last 10 minutes
This stuffing is worth the little bit of trouble, I assure you!