FUNERAL POTATOS!!!!!!!!!!

Last night I had a little dinner party with some very close friends. I got to share with them piece of my cultural heritage. A dish I have dreams about. Funeral potatoes (also known as "Party-potatoes" which in my opinion is blasphemy. I will call them nothing but funeral potatoes until the day I die and then my ghost will watch my family eat them with the joy that only comes from comfort-food at a time of grief.) But I digress, my real point is that they are (forgive me mom) Fucking delicious!!! And in this edition I will teach you to make them to the delight of all you share it with.

Now, there are about as many recipes for this dish as there are cooks to make it. I will give you a base line and also my own variation. Experiment with these. Find your own way of making them.

Recipe 1-

Ingredients:
2lb bag of frozen potatoes/freezer hashbrowns. (You can also make your own potatoes by baking them half way and dicing them up. I don't do this for the simple reason that it's a pain. It's like store-bought pie crust, why make your own?)
2 cans cream of something soup (any cream of something will do)
2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
1/2 cup butter
1 16oz tub of sour cream
2 cups cornflakes (or Ritz crackers, or just more shredded cheese)

Instructions:
Mix Butter, Sour Cream, Cheese and Soup. Then mix in Potatos. Spread in cake-pan or casserole dish. Crumble cornflakes and sprinkle over-top. Cook at 350 for 45 minutes. Easy as that.

Julie's Recipe-

Almost all the ingredients are the same but I leave out the butter, use frozen tater tots, prefer cream of potato soup and insist on cornflakes as topping.

Cooking is the same.

Enjoy.