Rustic And Simple Cheese Potatoes

Total Time: 1 hr 20 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 8 -10 potatoes (medium to large- i use yukon golds or russet)
• 1 (15 ounce) jar hellmann's mayonnaise
• 1 large yellow onion
• 0.5 (32 ounce) package velveeta cheese
• salt, to taste
• pepper, to taste
• 1 lb bacon
• 1 (12 ounce) jar green olives, diced (as much or little as you want)

Recipe

• 1 wash (scrub) potatoes and dice into 3/4-1" chunks. cook until tender. do not overcook.
• 2 meanwhile, dice and cook the bacon until crispy. dice the onion and green olives (optional). cut the velveeta into 1/2-3/4" chunks.
• 3 stir together the onion, velveeta and mayonnaise.
• 4 drain the potatoes. place them in a sprayed, deep baking dish.
• 5 sprinkle the potatoes with salt and pepper.
• 6 i always stir the cheese mix and potatoes in the same dish they will be cooking in if you would like, you could do this step in a large mixing bowl and add them to the baking dish after they are mixed together.
• 7 sprinkle the top of the potatoes with the bacon. wait to add the olives until the last 10-15 minutes of baking time.
• 8 bake, covered, at 350 degrees for approximately one hour. i uncover them the last 10-15 minutes. monitor this to make sure they are not too well done. they should be bubbling.
• 9 let them sit for about 10 minutes before serving. enjoy!