Kathy's Potatoes

My mother has a friend named Kathy.  For years I only knew her as the woman from back east somewhere who would call and I would talk to her for a minute before passing the phone to my mother.  I was probably close to 13 or 14 before I actually met her in person.  Kath can make me laugh harder than most people at any given time.  She's just hysterical.  She eventually moved just down the street from where I grew up.  I don't remember the first time she made these potatoes for me.  I just remember I fell in love with them.  That was years ago.  Since then, I've learned to make them myself and they've been featured in the Dutch Oven contest at my school and family parties and dinners for friends... they are a hit.  I will be making them for family dinner tomorrow night so I thought I'd add the recipe to the cooking blog.  I hope Kath will forgive me, as I'm totally admitting that I'm posting her recipe here, and I promise if I ever get published for it, you'll get royalties!  Yay!

Kathy's Potatoes

Ingredients
5 pounds red potatoes, uncooked
12 slices yellow processed cheese (most commonly known as cheddar)
12 slices white processed cheese (most commonly known as swiss or american)
1 cube butter
1 can sweetened condensed milk
Salt and Pepper

Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Lightly spray 9x13 pan. 
Slice potatoes about 1/4 inch thick.  Place one layer on bottom of pan.  Place six slices of cheddar cheese over potatoes.  Cut slices of butter around layer and sprinkle lightly with salt and pepper.  Make another later of potatoes.  Repeat process with white cheese, butter, salt and pepper.  Continue layering until potatoes and cheese are gone, alternating cheeses.  Pour can of sweetened condensed milk over the top.
Bake in oven for about an hour or until potatoes are tender.  I usually cover it with foil so that might increase your cooking time a little bit.  Also, they usually boil over so you might want to place some foil on the rack underneath your pan.  Otherwise you could be cleaning up your oven.  Ugh- one of my least favorite jobs.
Definitely a crowd pleaser!