Enjoying the Fruits of Our Labors

Okay, potatoes are not a fruit, but still.  It's nice to put a meal together from what you've grown and produced yourself.  Anything with potatoes is a winner with YOF.  If sauce is also involved, he's a happy man.

We harvested and dehydrated potatoes from the garden a few weeks ago and, now that I have some time on my hands to really cook, I decided to use some of them to make Scalloped Potatoes for supper tonight.   It's such a basic dish but I've never made it using dehydrated potatoes before so I did some research online to make sure it was feasible and find out if there were any do's and don'ts I should know about. I did find some recipes but you know I have to tweak, so here's what I ended up with:

3 cups dried potatoes, spread evenly in a flat baking dish.  

(I used a clear pyrex that measures approximately 7x11 inches)

Mix 2 tablespoons each of corn starch, flour & powdered milk 

and sprinkle evenly over the potatoes.

Use a small saucepan to sautee 1/3 cup diced onion

in 3 tablespoons melted butter until the onion is transluscent.

Pour the onion and butter evenly over the potatoes.

In the same saucepan, bring 2-3/4 cups water to a boil.

Then remove from heat and add 1/3 cup powdered milk.

Pour the water/milk mixture over the potatoes.

Bake at 325 degrees for 50-55 minutes. 

We're having sausage tonight and while the potatoes are in the oven, I'll be preparing fresh green beans that my niece and I picked from the garden this afternoon.  I love it when I have time to actually cook!