Sheet Pan Scalloped Potatoes with Ham and Peas

This is actually a really great dish. With a lot of spin-off potential. I think where the disconnect is are the cook's cooking instructions. Here's what I did differently.

1. I only used 1.8 lbs of potatoes. This is a real eyeball situation depending on the vessel that you chose to use. My golden potatoes were a little bit on this medium side and I used a large size cast iron skillet. It took 3 round of potatoes stacked. I did not use the ham.

2. You have to have a mandolin for this recipe if you don't there's no way unless you're professional chef that you're going to be able to cut this amount of potatoes perfectly 1/8 of inch. You don't get these down to the right size they will not cook. I think that's what happened with the other person who reviewed this recipe that they didn't cut them thin enough.

3. I rinsed my potatoes after I cut them and then I soaked them in cold water for over an hour. This gets all the starch out. After that I spread them out on paper towels and dry them really good.

4. Any melting cheese will work. You are basically making a Mac & Cheese roux. I would advise against using pre-shredded because of the chemicals that they put in it so get you a block of cheddar (which is what I used in this recipe) or another block of a good melting cheese and measure it out. I also did not have any heavy cream so I use the same amount of half and half and it turned out fine. I feel like if I had used heavy cream it would have been too heavy so I was actually glad I didn't.

5. I put the tin foil over and stuck it in a 450° oven and cooked it for 40 minutes. When it comes out initially it looks very wet so that's why you don't put anything in the panko except the rest of the cheese and some thyme because it does soak it up. After 10 minutes my casserole was pretty brown on top so I felt fine taking it out especially it being in the cast iron pan I knew it would continue to cook the bottom layers and I let it sit for another 10 minutes before touching it.

6. You could really change this with the addition of ingredients such as ground beef or different types of cheese you could take it in a Tex-Mex direction or even an Italian direction. I thought about maybe even making it a chili casserole.

Recipe is terrible. Cook at least 2 hours otherwise potatoes will be raw. Sucks.

Hi. Made this and it was great. I had leftover ham chunks in the freezer o I just cut those up pretty small but doubled the ham called for. It was really good my wife thought.