Ham & Taters.

[sunsoaker]

On Jen's request...

Peel and slice enough taters to fill a 9 x 12 pan.
keep taters in cold water until ready to assemble to keep them from turning brown
Dice enough ham to your liking (I use quite a lot, at least a cup or maybe two - I don't measure)
Dice up onion to to your liking (I use 1/2 a large onion)

Saute ham and onion together. I usually cook until the ham is good and browned.
Set aside while making sauce.

Lay a layer of taters in bottom of pan, add ham/onion mixture on top, reserving some.
Put a couple of ladles of sauce (directions below) in the middle of that.
layer the rest of the taters and ham/onion mixture on top of that.
Ladle (or pour) rest of sauce over taters making sure to get to the edges or they'll end up dry.
(Note, my daughter just puts it all in the pan then pours the sauce over the whole thing and it seems to come out fine, but she can't seem to thicken the sauce so it distributes easier and her finished product is a bit runny)

Cover and bake in 350 oven for approx. an hour, until taters are pretty much done. Note, the thinner you slice the taters, the faster it cooks but usually about an hour.  Uncover and cook until top is lightly browned.

Sauce:

3 Tblsp butter
3 Tblsp flour
3 cups of milk
pepper to taste.

melt butter over medium heat making sure not to burn it.
mix in flour and stir like crazy until smooth.
slowly mix in milk stirring like crazy to make sure no lumps.
season with pepper to taste
stir constantly until it somewhat thickens. (you can usually turn up the heat a bit to hasten the thickening at this point)
Spoon over taters/ham making sure it gets all the way through, and to the edges of pan.

Note: the recipe actually calls for 2/2/2 but I find that makes for rather dry taters so I do the 3/3/3 and it works out great! (though you might have a bit of sauce left over)

[sunsoaker]

Wow, typed out, this looks like a lot of work, but its really not, except for peeling/slicing taters.

[Dianna]

 

[Tina]

This sounds delicious.

[bayou girl]

a modified version of this is dinner tonight! thank you!

[Penny]

Yummmm.....thanks for posting this.

[sunsoaker]

Thanks y'all. It is good.