Hi, Red. Long time no see. Or hear. I didn't know that clam chowder was ever good.
I made my biggest hash brown patty yet. It was the last one from 3 pounds of shredded hash browns, and bigger than the other 3 because I didn't quite divide the potatoes evenly. This time I added 20 or more slices of hot jalapenos to the pound of sausage gravy and heated it up before I started cooking the hash browns. I wanted the peppers to have time to marinate in the gravy. After I flipped it over, I added all of the French's fried onions I had left, and covered it with 6 slices of cheese, 2 layers thick. The patty was so thick, the heat wasn't making its way through and melting the cheese. I was afraid of burning it and took it out of the pan and microwaved it for 1 1/2 minutes, and the cheese still wasn't melted. This thing was so big, if I poured the gravy on top, most of it would overflow. So I cut the middle out with a spatula, messing things up a bit in the process, and put it on another plate. I covered it with about half of the gravy, and filled the hole in this part with the rest. I ended up taking a few spoonfuls of gravy off the other part to finish this one, and will eat the other part later.