I’m actually kind of speechless.
Except for the fact that I’m not.
Ohhhhh, you guys I’m this close to losing the last of my one and a half marbles over these cheesy stacks of splendor and I want to use all caps so bad but I’m trying to be better about it but we all know I’m forever a lost cause YOU HAVE GOT TO MAKE THIIIIIIIISSSSSSS.
And shoot, you don’t even have to make them for Thanksgiving. I won’t be mad atcha. You just have to make them at some point. And by some point I mean five minutes ago. But you can make them for Thanksgiving also. And probably tomorrow too. And tonight. And last week. And now. Til death do us part.
Let’s talk about what is happening here before I slip into a dangerous and awesome bubbly cheese and garlic memory coma.
We have thinly sliced sweet potatoes. Okay I used a mandolin. Do you have one? Add it to your Christmas list. It’ll make your life so stinkin’ beautiful you don’t even know.
So we have the potatoes, and we have shredded manchego cheese. Have you ever tried manchego? Add it to your grocery list. It’ll make your life so flippin’ dynomite you don’t even know.
We have the potatoes, the cheese, and the garlic/thyme/nutmeg infused cream. Have you ever infused cream with garlic and thyme and nutmeg? Add it to your bucket list. It’ll make your life so frickin’ sublime you don’t even know.
And it bakes. And bakes. And things happen inside the oven we wouldn’t understand. Things we couldn’t understand.
Things we shouldn’t understand. (name that movie)
I wasn’t prepared for this outcome in any way at all ever. I had no idea just how cheesy and melty and phenom dot com these little stacks were going to be. My eyeballs wanted to jump out of their sockets and bear hug every last little one.
But my mouth beat them to it.
Cheesy Sweet Potato Stacks:
(lightly adapted from Southern Living)
What it took for 8 stacks:
* 2 sweet potatoes, thinly sliced (with a mandolin)
* 2 cups shredded manchego cheese (or more if you need it)
* 3/4 cup heavy cream
* 2 cloves garlic, minced
* 2 or 3 sprigs fresh thyme, leaves stripped from stems
* 1/2 tsp freshly grated nutmeg
* 1 pinch coarse salt and freshly grated pepper
Preheat oven to 400.
In a small saucepan, combine the milk, garlic, thyme leaves, nutmeg, salt and pepper. Simmer on low for about 5 minutes, stirring frequently.
Lightly coat 8 ramekins with cooking spray. Stack 6 slices of sweet potato in each ramekin, lightly sprinkling cheese between each potato slice. Top with cheese.
Drizzle about 2 Tbs. milk mixture over each ramekin.
Place ramekins on baking sheet and loosely tent with foil. Bake 45 minutes, covered.
Remove foil and broil until the cheese is browned and bubbly, and the sweet potatoes are easily pierced with a fork.
Serve in ramekins OR remove and serve in cute little stacks. Garnish with more thyme!
*the two that you see at the top of this picture are cheeseless. they’re for my weird husband. do not look to him as role model. thank you. *
Just surrender.
These look amazing!!! Such a great idea!
I would eat these for breakfast lunch and dinner, I need this NOW!
Obsessed. Nuff said.
I will try these for sure, look delish!
Whoa. Just whoa. Those look incredible.
And, yes…I DO have a mandolin, which I bought, promptly put away and have never used. Maybe this is a sign.
Wow..Yess..am gonna make it soon. Sharing it and pinning it!
WANT. Badly.
I actually just started panting.
You don’t even know how badly I want to eat these sweet potato stacks, like, now-ish. I think I need a mandolin, too.
Four gooey, cheesy ones for you, two sad, cheeseless ones for him. Seems about right.
Looks delicious!!! Pee Wee’s Big Adventure!
Can I tell you how much I lurve this! I just made a sweet potato gratin. Can’t get enough of that orange goodness.
I must make these. They look amazing!
You rock my potato filled world! Yum!
Your husband is so sad and pitiful. Not to mention cheese-less. How did this mixed marriage occur and how has it lasted? Don’t you secretly, sometimes, slip some cheese into his food? I totes would!!!
Um, yummy!
Man oh man these look so good!!! I want one right now. Yum!
This is an awesome side dish for Thanks Giving dinner. Hmmm, I have never heard of Manchego Cheese. I will search for it though so I can try this.
What a fantastic idea to do these in individual bowls. I did my first gratin a few weeks ago for Lisa’s virtual baby shower and, well, some dirty feelings may have swept over me when I took a bite (not about Lisa… obv). These look f’ing amazing, Bev!
WOWZAS! There are (practically) no words for these beauties, Bev! I want to just dig right in!
What kind of mandolin do you have? Do you like it?
I actually just have a cheapy from Target! Simple, white – I THINK around $15. I love it love it love it!
Are you kidding me? These? These are brilliant!!
Totally surrendered. These are out of this WORLD.
I can’t wait to make these!! I love the combo of sweet potatoes and cheese.
I’m a loner, Dottie. A REBEL.
You are GENIUS! I want to crawl inside one of those stacks and never leave.
I’m actually kinda speechless too! YUMMO!
Looks divine!! So trying this over the weekend!
Waving a white flag – I give in, just hand me a fork.
This needs to happen in my life. And I didn’t even know it.
I love sweet potatoes. Cassie loves cheese. We both play the mandolin like pros. Sooooooooo, yes please.
I WILL surrender! It wouldn’t be a sacrifice at all…
I have a thing with sweet potatoes.
those look amazing!!!
So yeah, I had to take out one of my potato dishes for Thanksgiving and add this on because this is to die for!
Bev – they’re stunning and perfect and glistening and I want!
Holy amazing…these look so darn good!!!!!!!! want!
I have been sick, with almost no appetite. But, wow…all I can say is, “Wow!!!” I knew that catching up with an old friend would make me feel better, and it totally has. Now, if you just lived next door, I would ask you to make these for me STAT. YUMMY!
Nataliiiiie! It’s so good to see your . . . typing again after all this time! <3 (I swear I’m going to write you back.)
Whoa.
Amazing. That is all.
I made these over the weekend – OH MY AMAZING!!! These are as good as she says! They were a HUGE HIT at our dinner party!
Ohhh I’m so glad to hear this! Thank you for letting me know!
I made these a few weeks ago…It was delicious … thanks for the recipe!
Oh dear, YES.