The Adventure of...

...POTATO PANCAKES! So the other morning my mom and I decided we would try our hand at making potato pancakes, mainly because we had a surplus of mashed potatoes from the night before, but beyond that it was a very fun experience and they were delish! And the best part of it all is the fact that they are so so easy! You can see here, that there is eggs and flour and the molded pancakes! The eggs actually were just a side to go with the pancakes, but they made it into the picture. (But after talking to my aunt, after ours were made she said to put eggs in with the potatoes to act as a binder.)

So the recipe is pretty simple, mashed potatoes, flour, eggs, and bacon grease. Mix the potatoes and eggs and form into a patty. Lightly cover in flour, and fry in bacon grease. You need approx. an half-inch of bacon grease.

These are our pancakes frying in the pan, we didn't use as much grease as we needed to, but they were still good! Oh, and you fry until golden brown! So simple and so easy, and a great way to use up left over mashed potatoes. It could easily become the day after Thanksgiving or Christmas breakfast. Before you know it you'll be making extra mashed potatoes just to have potato pancakes the next morning! In the mean time, you already have the bacon cooked, so cook up a couple eggs to go with, any way you like 'em. We did scrambled.

We also were trying to figure out what to put on top of them. We did ketchup mainly because thats all we had, and secondly because we thought it sounded good! We also thought that ranch would taste great, and maybe some salsa! Leave a comment on what else you think would be great toppers for the pancakes! It would be great to hear other ideas!

I hope you all enjoy! Give it a try!

xoxo

Finals are over...

...and now I can get back to my blog! YAY! I've been neglecting it horribly for a while now. But it is summer vacation, and since I couldn't afford to take summer classes, I have a break! YAY! So my summer is going to be packed with a vacation to Denver, to see my best friend, work on my etsy site, and work of course!

The other day while checking my reading list, I came upon this great idea for playing with Mod Podge. Thank you to The How-to-Gal! I got to playing with it, and granted these aren't necessarily my best work but they will do for my first go round, but here are some magnents I made using her technique.

They are so fun and so easy...as you can see they are being used on the fridge already! I did magnents instead of a pendant like The How-to-Gal, but it is still very simple instead of the baile, I used a hot glue gun and magnents that I got at Michaels. I found all the elements for this project between Hobby Lobby and Michaels. You should all try it!

Nextly, I've been very busy this first weekend off from school! I bought a new computer yesterday and if I had a picture of it I would show you! So I can stay updated in the blogging world! YAY! Sorry for the long post today, but I got lots to share!

Oh, one final thing, looks like I will be passing all my classes this semester, still waiting on a few final grades, but I think I'm in good shape!

XOXO