Day 7

Potato Pancakes (round 1)

Ok so to start I must say that making potato pancakes is not easy AT ALL!!! I dont know what the heck I was thinking making something that was completely past my skill level, I call this entry round 1 because even though I fell I failed, I will try again after I have gotten more cooking experience under my belt! It took me four hours to make these, though that was probably due to all my misfortunes. I started out by gathering all my ingredients

Once I had everything gathered I washed and peeled my potatoes, now I don't know about yall, but I always have this horrible fear while peeling vegetables, that I am going peel off a part of my finger or something so I always try to be as careful as possible when peeling once I peeled, my potatoes I placed them in a bowl of water, it was explained to me to do this so the potatoes don't "rust", so I then placed my potatoes in the processor and let it spit the potatoes into the bowl

or so I thought it would shoot some in the bowl and some would just drip out, but no big got a couple paper towels underneath and I was back in business! Once all my potatoes were in a bowl and to my horror turning a pinkish rusty color, I next needed to squeeze the water out of them, well I am thinking to myself this is potatoes strips now how much water could there possibly be, well see for yourself! Apparently potatoes are like freaking camels! Who knew!?

Yes that cloudy concoction to the right came out of my potatoes, that were squeezed by hand by me. Next it was time to cut up the onion, now I failed to mention this yesterday but onions can be very painful, remember when you watched the cartoons as a child and a character would be cutting an onion and crying? Well it doesnt work like that at all, dont get me wrong you cry, but its because your eyes are stinging and in horrible agonizing pain!!! The stronger the onion the worse! So just a note be very careful with onions! After a few needed tissues I placed the chopped onion in the food processor and put the cut onion in the bowl with the potatoes

once that was done I took one egg light beaten and added it to the mix

I then added my seasonings salt, pepper, flour, baking soda once i mixed it all together I placed everything in the blender to mix it up nice and smooth

ok so up until now I was doing pretty good, only one minor problem but I fixed that so I felt great, I thought to myself I got this! Little did I know it was all about to go down hill! So I pulled out my electric skillet and put some oil in and let it heat up and I was ready to start I laddled a scoop of batter into the skillet, the skillet with no non stick bottom, and everything started out great

how quikly I learned when making potato pancakes YOU MUST HAVE A NO STICK PAN, as soon as I tried to flip it the stupid thing fell apart!!! Are you kidding me!!!??? So I tried a new approach a no stick pot, I placed in the oil let it heat up, and placed the batter in within minutes it started cooking like it was supposed to, but then it was cooking to fast!!! I tried to flip it with my spatula but the walls were too high on the pot to get any leverage, so my poor pancake fried up and shriveled to a black burned crisp!

I had had it! I looked at my batter and it had actually turned a grayish black color, YUCK! I was just about to give up when I decided to try one more time this time with a pan, I placed the oil in the pan let it heat up and ladled some of my now "blackened" batter in the pan, it began to sizzle and cook after a few minutes I flipped it and it flipped with ease and to my surprise it had turned a beautiful golden brown color! I continued to ladle in batter and make 2 pancakes at a time

After four hours I was finally done cooking my potato pancakes, now as I said before I feel I could have done these much better and to let you know the final picture is very misleading, my pancakes are a completely different color but when I took the picture they look perfectly golden brown! As far as taste they were good, I just know I could do better and I will next time! well thats all for now, catch yall tomorrow same bat time same bat pl.... wait thats not my catch phrase! Oh ya I don't have a cute line to end my entries with, so until I get one thank you for reading and please be sure to follow me! and leave lots of comments so I know there are people actually reading this!