Our Family Food Favorites: Dutch Oven Potatoes

Dec 18, 2015

Dutch Oven Potatoes

This is a recipe shared by our sister-in-law, Mary Ann Irvine. We had it one summer at their house and it has stuck in our taste buds memory. Yum!

Dutch Oven Potatoes

1/4lb. bacon
2 onions, chopped
8 potatoes, sliced
1-2 cups cheddar cheese, according to taste

Cook the bacon, then the onions in a dutch oven. Add the potatoes and stir. Cover and cook dutch oven style until the potatoes are soft, about 1 hour. Sprinkle on the cheese and cover a few more minutes to let the cheese melt. Serves 8-10 people.

Recipe shared by Robin.

"Saying Grace" by Norman Rockwell

This painting was created for the cover of The Saturday Evening Post’s 1951 Thanksgiving issue. It portrays a woman and a young boy saying grace in a crowded restaurant while the people around them glance in their direction. Rockwell was inspired to create this artwork by a reader of the magazine who saw a Mennonite family praying in a restaurant.

In 1955, the readers of The Saturday Evening Post voted Saying Grace as their favorite ever cover. The painting was sold for $46 million in an auction at Sotheby’s in December 2013. At that time, it set the record for the most expensive American painting ever sold at auction. The $46 million paid for Saying Grace remains the highest known price paid for a Norman Rockwell artwork.