Cheesy Potatoes

This recipes called for a "rounded tablespoon." This means you have as much heaped on top as you do in the 'bowl' of the spoon. Just dig your tablespoon into the flour and don't level it; it's that simple, I promise!

Ingredients:

• 10 potatoes, cooked and cubed
• 2 cubes (1 c.) melted butter
• 2 rounded Tbsp. flour
• 2 c. milk
• 1 small onion, diced
• 1/2 lb. Velveeta (or Kraft slices) cheese
• Bread crumbs
• 3 strips bacon, cooked and crumbled

Place the potato cubes in a 9x13" pan. In a pan, mix together butter, flour, milk, and diced onions. Cook sauce on medium heat until thickened. Add velveeta cheese and blend until smooth. Cover the potatos cubes, sprinkle with bread crumbs and bacon. Bake at 350 for 30 minutes.

My grandma grew up during the Great Depression, and so she learned the hard way just how to put together meals on a budget. I remember how she would, even years later, scour the newspaper for coupons and clip them all out carefully. There are even some coupons still in the cookbook that she attached to the corresponding recipes. Hopefully one day I can be as good at recipe budgeting as she was.