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