Potatoes for Scalloped Potatoes

Melba's Jammin said:

It took me 16 minutes and 29 seconds to peel and slice (with a chef's knife, 1/8" thick, give or
take 1/16"😉 3 large potatoes, (total weight 1#6oz) and make the white sauce with which to layer
them in a 1-1/2 quart casserole dish. They're ready to come out of the oven now. Guess I'd better
slice the ham and prep the broccoli and get the salads made. Supper's in 50 minutes.
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-Barb, <www.jamlady.eboard.com> updated 2-10-04.

Those must be some fancy salads (or did you mean 5 minutes?)

;-) gloria p

Melba's Jammin said:

It took me 16 minutes and 29 seconds to peel and slice (with a chef's knife, 1/8" thick, give or
take 1/16"😉 3 large potatoes, (total weight 1#6oz) and make the white sauce with which to layer
them in a 1-1/2 quart casserole dish. They're ready to come out of the oven now. Guess I'd better
slice the ham and prep the broccoli and get the salads made. Supper's in 50 minutes.

HOLD that phone! Wait a sec, I'll be right over!

Jill

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Melba's Jammin said:

It took me 16 minutes and 29 seconds to peel and slice (with a chef's knife, 1/8" thick, give or
take 1/16"😉 3 large potatoes, (total weight 1#6oz) and make the white sauce with which to layer
them in a 1-1/2 quart casserole dish. They're ready to come out of the oven now. Guess I'd
better slice the ham and prep the broccoli and get the salads made. Supper's in 50 minutes.

HOLD that phone! Wait a sec, I'll be right over!

Jill

Too late, Toots! Gotta tell you that supper was pretty darned good. Dang shame you missed it. The
scalloped potatoes were very good. Not too salty. Tender. Just wet enough. (After getting them in
the dish for the oven, I decided that by the time they baked, they'd be pretty t'ick, so I pour some
milk on top -- like to almost the rim of the dish. Good move. BTW, the white sauce was made with
skim milk; the milk I poured was also no fat skim milk.

(And I was busy playing Collapse, so I didn't start the broccoli or the salads until about 6:15
p.m.). We sat at 6:35. I'm messy but I'm fast and can do three things in the kitchen at the
same time. :-)
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-Barb, <www.jamlady.eboard.com> updated 2-10-04.

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Melba's Jammin said:

Guess I'd better slice the ham and prep the broccoli and get the salads made. Supper's in 50
minutes.

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-Barb, <www.jamlady.eboard.com> updated 2-10-04.

Quoted message said:

Those must be some fancy salads (or did you mean 5 minutes?)

;-) gloria p

:-) Nope, 50 minutes is correct. We watch Wheel of Fortune whilst we
eat. It's on at 6:30. (How pathetic is that?) But, the salads had iceberg, romaine, radish, onion,
green pepper, carrot, and were dressed with my made-up dressing -- I sprinkle some sugar on the
salad in the bowls, spray it with some olive oil, drizzle a leetle bit of soy sauce on it and then
drizzle some balsamic vinegar on top. Pretty good.
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-Barb, <www.jamlady.eboard.com> updated 2-10-04.

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Jammin' at [email hidden] wrote on 2/16/04 10:00 PM:

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(And I was busy playing Collapse, so I didn't start the broccoli or the salads until about 6:15
p.m.). We sat at 6:35. I'm messy but I'm fast and can do three things in the kitchen at the same
time. :-)
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Collapse is addictive, isn't it?? Game House (www.gamehouse.com) has a few games that I have spent
far too much time playing.... Candy Cruncher is another one. Highly addictive.

At least you can win at Collapse! Candy Cruncher just keeps on going, until it beats YOU!

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It took me 16 minutes and 29 seconds to peel and slice (with a chef's knife, 1/8" thick, give or
take 1/16"😉 3 large potatoes, (total weight 1#6oz) and make the white sauce with which to layer
them in a 1-1/2 quart casserole dish. They're ready to come out of the oven now. Guess I'd better
slice the ham and prep the broccoli and get the salads made. Supper's in 50 minutes.
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-Barb, <www.jamlady.eboard.com> updated 2-10-04.

Okay, it must just take me longer because I use at least 9 potatoes in a regular, lasagna sized
pyrex dish. Cooking time is always about 1 1/2 hours (I don't have an oven - it's a toaster oven,
renting an apartment is the pitts!). But I do make the white sauce as well. Still, for me, you gotta
figure 2 1/2 to 3 hours including cooking time.

kili

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It took me 16 minutes and 29 seconds to peel and slice (with a chef's knife, 1/8" thick, give or
take 1/16"😉 3 large potatoes, (total weight 1#6oz) and make the white sauce with which to layer
them in a 1-1/2 quart casserole dish. They're ready to come out of the oven now. Guess I'd better
slice the ham and prep the broccoli and get the salads made. Supper's in 50 minutes.
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-Barb, <www.jamlady.eboard.com> updated 2-10-04.

Okay, it must just take me longer because I use at least 9 potatoes in a regular, lasagna sized
pyrex dish. Cooking time is always about 1
1/2 hours (I don't have an oven - it's a toaster oven, renting an apartment is the pitts!). But I
do make the white sauce as well. Still, for me, you gotta figure 2 1/2 to 3 hours including
cooking time.

kili

And some folks, like me, are just slower at prep (like paring and slicing potatoes). I can even make
a "production" out of making mashed potatoes.
<G> And, of course, larger quantities take longer to prepare and to bake.

Wayne