Scalloped Hasselback Potatoes

Potato dish recipes are one of the most popular foods to cook with. Potatoes can create some of the most ultimate comfort foods ever discovered. Today we want to share with you a mouth-watering recipe for Scalloped Hasselback Potatoes! And this isn't just any old potato recipe. This is a potato with butter and cheese and more creamy cheese recipe. This is a scalloped baked potato recipe, and it can be used as a side dish for a whole array of meals. You can even eat it on its own � it's that hearty � and you can eat it for breakfast, lunch, dinner, or possibly even a late night snack! We think we might want it for our next movie night, actually. We all get it. That craving. That intense and irresistible craving for comfort food. Especially in the winter time! Especially when it's cold outside and we don't want to go anywhere much further than our own couch. And we don't really even feel like cooking very much, either. That craving often involves two things: potatoes and cheese. Quite often we'll just go ahead and reach for a bag of potato chips, but the next time you find yourself doing that, just hang on a sec! This scalloped hasselback potato recipe is so freakin' easy, you can do it with your eyes closed. Not only that, but it will only take a few minutes to prep it up and throw the whole shebang in the oven. After that, you can take a nap for about forty-five minutes to an hour, then it's comfort time!

This cheesy potato recipe is much healthier for you than a bag of potato chips, and it will taste so much better too. It's a hot meal with buttery, cheese-kissed potatoes, cooked to a crispy perfection. So what are we waiting for? Let's get started now! Go ahead and pre-heat your oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. The first thing we'll need are a bunch of large Russet potatoes � if you don't have them, no problem, any variety of potatoes will do! If we're talking healthy, though, we may want to make sure they're of the organic variety. Next step? See what kind of cheese you've got in your fridge. This scalloped potato recipe calls for Parmigiano-Reggiano and cheddar, but feel free to use whatever kinds you've got kicking around. If you have time to plan ahead for this delicacy, then enjoy picking up all of the best items at your local grocery store.

No wonder we love potatoes for comfort food! As one of the world's key staples, potatoes are the number one crop in the United States, and it's no surprise, really � they are so delicious, easy to grow, and pretty darned easy to eat. Potatoes belong to the perennial nightshade family and are cousins to red and green peppers and tomatoes, just to name a few. We're actually discovering a lot of new and interesting facts about potatoes these days � like, for one thing, archaeological evidence is now showing they first popped up in Andean South America, in Bolivia and Peru, where the natives first began to cultivate them.

And now that potatoes are available pretty much world-wide, we've discovered so many different ways to serve them as well. Every day there is something new to learn about potatoes! They are so easy to cook and so versatile, they can fit perfectly into just about any other dish. Not only can you mash, cream, and fry them, you can boil, bake, and steam them as well. You can throw them in stews, soups, and salads, and you can load them up with all of the yummiest fillings available � kinda like this recipe for scalloped hasselback potatoes, jam-packed with butter and cheese!