Bacon Potato Tart
Description
I know I had you at the bacon. I saw this on the Food Network while at the gym and actually made it that night with a big spinach and strawberry salad – everyone loved it, obviously, but remember that it takes a couple of hours to cook. To make it for a crowd, or to make it quicker, I would double everything but the bacon, put it together in a 9 x 13 and then lay the bacon strips over top (like icing) – you could also chop and precook the bacon a bit to remove some of the fat. Feel free to make up your own version, I feel like I might use some blue cheese and green onion next time and I think it would make a brilliant brunch!
Ingredients
Bacon Potato Tart
1 package (500 g) thin-sliced bacon
4 baking potatoes, washed and thin-sliced with the skins on
1 small onion, finely diced
4–6 cloves of garlic, finely minced
1/2 c. grated old cheddar
salt and freshly ground pepper
Instructions
I used an oven-proof 10-inch skillet, but I’m sure a pie plate would work just fine – line your pan with parchment and preheat the oven to 350. Lay the bacon strips around the edge of the pan so that one edge just touches the bottom (and will be secured by your potato layers), and the rest of the strip hangs out and over (it will look like a large bacon flower). Line the bottom with overlapping potato slices, sprinkle on half of the onion, garlic and cheese and give it all a good grinding of pepper (I didn’t really use any salt).
Repeat the potatoes, then the rest of the onion, garlic, and cheese – add more pepper if you’d like – and top with potatoes. Fold the bacon back over the potatoes so that the top is completely covered – some of it may seem really thick but you cook it for a long time and the bacon will shrink a lot. Bake for about 2 hours until the bacon is crisp and the potatoes are tender. I recommend carefully pouring off most of the bacon fat as soon as you take it out of the oven and then allowing it to rest for 15 minutes so that it sets and the slices come out pie-shaped and pretty – enjoy!
- Category: Tarts, Potatoes
Hi Meagan.
The cookbook i mentioned is Quick and Delicious Gourmet Cookbook,
Authors Naomi Arbit, June Turner; the book was from a series called Ideals. Sold at Cole’s book store ISBN 0-89542-973-X 905
The cover has a picture of a recipe i have made a dozen times in big quantities and frozen: Vegetable stuffed Round Steak, like a roulande steak (spelling?).Gerry has often made the Lemon Fromage. A cooking story from our family: One Sunday morning Gerry got up after I had left for church and started his cooking career. He thought he would have a nice breakfast ready for nina, hugh and i when we got home. But when we got home, breakfast was only started because he was stumped, “How do you fold egg whites? I know how to fold sheets but i cannot fold eggs whites,” he said. I would say he was probably 45 years old then.
He now cooks at least half the meals plus preparing all lunches. We do not eat out much but when we do, he often gets his pen and paper out and writes the ingredients as he can discover and later at home he creates a similar dish or keeps trying until he gets it. And of course the price is far cheaper than the original dining room item.
A hug to your little girls and yourself. I have only met Brock once so my best regards to him, but you could also hug him for me.