{"id":8900,"date":"2020-10-15T06:47:28","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T12:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/?p=8900"},"modified":"2020-11-03T06:29:45","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T13:29:45","slug":"cheese-potatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/?p=8900","title":{"rendered":"Cheese Potatoes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"380\" src=\"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/CheesePotatoes.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8905\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/CheesePotatoes.jpg 550w, http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/CheesePotatoes-300x207.jpg 300w, http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/CheesePotatoes-434x300.jpg 434w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Weekends in my youth were often spent with our grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins. Everyone would bring a dish to share, and we would gather around a cozy table and laugh and talk and enjoy the food. The kind of event we just cannot do today in pandemic times. But I have my memories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Much of the food was fifties-style casseroles. Canned soups and sour cream were very popular ingredients in these casseroles, as in this one for Cheese Potatoes. It&#8217;s on another one of the seven recipe cards I pulled out of my old recipe box a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next to the recipe title is &#8220;Werdie&#8221; in parentheses. That&#8217;s my Aunt Werdie. She was the youngest of my father&#8217;s three sisters, and the one I knew best, the one I called &#8220;my favorite aunt&#8221;. Werdie&#8217;s given name was Werdna, which is Andrew spelled backwards \u2013 Andrew was my grandfather&#8217;s name. She lived to her late nineties and kept her mind and her pluck to the end!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So today I&#8217;ll make these memory-filled, comfort-food Cheese Potatoes. And enjoy every rich bite!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Cheese Potatoes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>10 medium potatoes, boiled and chopped into 1\/4-1\/2 inch chunks<\/li><li>1 can cream of mushroom soup<\/li><li>1 1\/2 pound sharp cheddar cheese<\/li><li>1\/2 cube butter (4 tablespoons)<\/li><li>1\/4 cup chopped green onion<\/li><li>1 pint sour cream<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Melt butter, add cheese and soup. Add to the potatoes along with the onions. Fold in sour cream. Bake at 350\u02da 45 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Note: For the two of us, I made one-third of a recipe and baked it in an 6&#215;6-inch pan. I had leftovers \u2013 no problem!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"195\" src=\"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/CheesePotatoesRec.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8907\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/CheesePotatoesRec.jpg 350w, http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/CheesePotatoesRec-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weekends in my youth were often spent with our grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins. Everyone would bring a dish to share, and we would gather around a cozy table and laugh and talk and enjoy the food. 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