Serves 4

Prepartion time: 15-20 minutes

Cooking time: 1 1/4 hours

Method

This simple and delicious leek and potato pie, using Cheshire Cheese. Serve this dish with just about anything – fantastic with sausages, and vegetarians will love it too.

1. Peel and thinly slice three medium size potatoes.
2. Cut two trimmed leeks into 1/2 inch thick rings.
3. Grate 10 – 12 ozs. of the cheese. Season 3/4 pint of single cream with salt and pepper. Crush a single clove of garlic (optional).
4. Grease a shallow oven-proof dish with butter and garlic.
5. Layer the potatoes, leek and Cheshire cheese and cover with the seasoned cream.
6. Cover with greaseproof paper or foil and bake for about 1 1/4 hours in a moderate oven, until the potatoes are tender.
7. Remove cover ten minutes before finishing to brown top.

This can be cooked very successfully in a microwave oven at full power: Stir at least twice – don’t worry about disturbing the layers – nobody will ever know!

Top tip! If you are lucky enough to possess a food processor, alternate the
potatoes and cheese, using the same slicing disk!