You can use bacon lardons or if you're making a lot of it get a little smoked gammon joint, roast it and chop into chunks

Directions

Heat the oven to 180 and part-boil the potatoes

If you're using lardons rather than roasted gammon, fry it in some oil until its fairly brown

Gently fry the onion but don't brown it then chuck in the garlic and picked thyme leaves and gently fry for a minute or two

Add the wine and cook it fairly vigorously but don't boil it dry. Then add the cream and bring gently to a simmer

Mix the potatoes into the cream, wine and bacon mixture and spread it out in a baking tray

Peel the cheese and place on top of the mixture. Place in the over for about 15 minutes checking the potatoes are cooked all the way through

Ingredients

• 2lbs waxy potatoes, Charlotte for example (1kg)
• A small gammon joint
• One large onion or 2 shallots
• 4 cloves of garlic
• A packet of fresh thyme or a teaspoon of dried
• 1 glass of white wine
• 7floz double cream
• A whole Reblochon (hard to get - you usually have to buy 2 halves