I experiment in a lot of things, not just photography. One of these things is food. I'm not a great cook, but I'm not bad either. I'd consider myself more of an experimenter than a chef though!
One of the things I quite like is a challenge and my latest one was inspired by a comment a friend of mine made who loves breakfast and dinner, but finds lunch rather boring. Now, I know the reason for this, the most popular lunch in both the UK and Ireland is the beloved sandwich/sarnie! And yes, eating a sarnie everyday can get rather boring. So lately, due to working from home quite a bit, I have started to create loads of different lunches each day.
So, today I look in the fridge and what do I see. Left over mashed potatoes that were a couple of days old, and left over roast potatoes from yesterday Being Irish we have a habit of cooking potatoes with everything... but I don't care, I love em! And you can get so inventive with them outside of mash/boil/roast/bake. Here's what I did:
1. Sliced the roast potatoes and put into a "lasagne" size baking dish.
2. Added some roughly torn salami to the potatoes.
3. Beat an egg with a splash of milk
4. Added some salt, pepper and some chopped garlic to the egg mixture
5. Threw the egg mixture over the potatoes and salami.
6. Stuck it in the oven for about 15 minutes at 200.
I would bet this one works better with cream than milk, but today I didn't have any.
Next, what will I do with mashed potatoes... how about potato pancakes! I just love these. They're like a midway point between regular "drop-scone" pancakes and potato farls. Here's what you do:
If you have freshly mashed potatoes you should be able to skip milk. If not you may need to moisten them a bit with milk. For this recipe I required milk because they were over a day old. I had about the equivalent of 3 cups of mashed potato :
1. Add maybe a quarter of cup to the mashed potatoes and try mix them until somewhat smooth
2. Add about a quarter cup of flour (I didn't measure, just threw in what I felt was necessary)
3. Add an egg, some salt, and a small dash of pepper.
4. Mix until you get a kind of sloppy dough. (Some people recommend a drier dough, but it never works out as well for me).
5. This should make about 4 nice sized pancakes.
6. Fry on a pan until nice and brown (not a little burnt like in my photo!
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Finally, throw the lot on a plate and eat like a king. Yum!
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