Monday, August 25, 2008

Potato Cakes?

bought too much Baby Potatoes the other day and was wrecking my head for ideas with how to cook them.. went online to search for Potato Recipes.. there must be about a zillion recipes (and counting) with how to cook potatoes but i have limited ingredients and resources to work with yesterday evening.. hence i came up with the very simple and humble Potato Cakes~

Miyuki asked me what i was trying to do when she saw me in the kitchen and i said it was "something like Croquette".. i really wished i didnt tell her that afterwards because my ingredients and method of cooking are just not what the Japanese will agree with for 'Croquettes'.. so once again, i'm trying to fake 'Japanese' here.. wahaha!

anyway, i stir-fry Onions and SPAM together before mixing them into the Mashed Potatoes, to which i added a little bit of Salt, some Pepper and quite a bit of Milk.. i used a soup spoon to scoop 1 spoonful of the mixture, rolled it into a ball and flattened it to about 1cm in thickness.. and then coated it with breadcrumbs.. i managed to get 18 Potatos Cakes!

i lined aluminium foil on a baking tray and oiled the foil with some Olive Oil.. and baked the Potato Cakes at about 200C in the oven for about 30mins.. flipping them over after a 15mins interval.. everyone had second helpings! even Jo! Woohoo~!

now i have to think about what to do with the rest of the potatoes~

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