I'd never made everyone's favorite Chanukah food before, potato pancakes. The smell of fried food makes me queasy. Heck, I don't even like going inside a McDonald's. But something inspired me to try this year and so I borrowed a friend's electric fry pan, bought 10 lbs of potatoes and went to town.
I have a new respect for people who make these. They are a ton of work. Dirty work. We don't have a food processor so Dave lovingly (okay, I bribed him) shredded all those potatoes. Then I found an old Gourmet recipe online and added salt, pepper, eggs, lemon juice, onion and flour.
The thing is: for every six I made, I ate one. So making tripling the recipe took 4 hours from start to finish. I set up the fry pan in the back yard and when all was said and done, I completed the task in the dark, with a flashlight. The thermometer read 36F. I am the Frozen Chosen.
Dang they were good.
We had some friends over for the last night of Chanukah and polished them off. With sour cream and applesauce of course.
2 comments:
you are welcome to borrow my food processor (I deliver) but they really are better when grated by hand. The processor makes little tubes of the potatoes. And I love the Frozen Chosen.
Should you ever try them again, (I - and many others to whom I have introduced them), prefer the zucchini and parmesan ones...much lighter and tastier!
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