Potato Cakes
I had some left over creamed potatoes, yes this is a weekly thing as I always make too much just so I will have left overs to make a quick supper with. Potatoes are so versatile and something I could never tire of. And these potato cakes are the best of all things potatoes… creamy centre with a great crispy outside.
These cakes can be made with any vegetable, or just with some onion and cheese.
Sometimes I will make them smaller and coat them with breadcrumb to get more of a crunch, but not always.
Potato cakes
Potato Cakes
- creamed potatoes
- 1 egg
- precooked brocolli – chopped into small pieces
- 1 diced onion sautéed until translucent
Mix all of the above together and shape into cakes, about three inches wide and an inch deep. Let chill on wax paper in the fridge for at least an hour to set in shape.
Heat a tablespoon of oil in a skillet over a medium heat.
Cook potato cakes until brown then carefully turn to brown the other side, then finish in oven until hot the whole way through.
Serve with sour cream or anything you fancy!
I love potatoes but ‘good’ potato cakes are still a work in progress for me. They’re never as good as I think they should be. Thanks for another version to consider and incorporate into ideas for the perfect potato cake.
Allan is with you, he prefers creamed potatoes. I just love potatoes any way!
I have a hard time keeping mashed potatoes around long enough to make potato pancakes (what my Mom used to call them) with them. When I do manage it I generally put a teaspoon of all purpose flour in as well. I haven’t tried putting veggies in them, and with the current price of broccoli ($3.49 for a small head regular, $6.99 organic) it’ll have to be some other veg. I DO have some purple sweet potato in the fridge, maybe I’ll try that this weekend.
I make salmon cakes the same basic way: a boned can of salmon, egg, flour, shape, fry
The broccoli here was $9.49. It was a fresh head and being flown in it costs the earth, so what we didn’t eat the day before had to be used! I am turning into a real scrooge with food, living here!
I am sure that it would be great with sweet potato. I hope that you enjoy!
Thanks for the salmon cake idea, I had plans to make tuna cakes, so will try it this way. Thank you!
You’re more than welcome
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I have a ton more recipes, I just done get much of a chance to cook any more since my boyfriend essentially owns the kitchen.
He has made mashed potato soup though
Mashed potato soup rocks!!
It is great that your boyfriend cooks, though it would be nice if you got a turn too. Cooking is such fun. Allan, my husband, burns water so the kitchen is mine here.
Lol. He’s a trained cook so I don’t have much of a chance
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I’ve been known to make coffee so strong you could stand a spoon up in it though. Mind you, I was 8 at the time, lol, and using a percolator rather than a drip coffee maker….
Well, in that case, enjoy his cooking and look up recipes for him to try that you would like! At times it would be nice not to have to cook every night, but because I enjoy it so much it is rare I feel that way.
As for the strong coffee, I have had similar incidents!!
Lol. I do find recipes, unfortunately what I find is generally online and our printer is out of ink (can’t find the cartridge we need, not for lack of trying).
Tonight takes the cake though *sigh*. He called and asked what I wanted for supper. Did we end up eating it? Nope. Philly Steak and Cheese, I even bought the Panini buns for it. Somebody didn’t feel like cooking and I didn’t get home in time to do much about it other than tell him what I wanted on the Pizza he was ordering *sniff, sniff*.
Meh. He knows when I don’t feel like cooking since I make something he can’t stand (only cuz I know he’s not going to be here to eat it any way.)
It sounds like you have it made!
Pizza is good, and I am sure that at times he can’t be bothered to cook if he is cooking all day. Maybe you will get your Philly Steak and Cheese tomorrow?! 
Pizza last night too though, from the freezer but pizza any way.
I’m hoping ground beef goes down in price soon. We’re low and it’s one of our staples.
Ground beef is definitely one of ours too, Allan would eat spaghetti bolognese until it came out of his ears!
snicker. When the kids were younger it was spaghetti and garlic bread with cheese. They still request it sometimes.
Allan is well over the age of a kid, but spaghetti bolognese is his go to choice, every time. Which meant that I went off it a long time ago!
I forgot about this until this morning but check out http://www.dairygoodness.ca . It’s the milk calendar and they have some really good sounding recipes going all the way back the calendar’s inception way back in 1974.
I was having a hard time finding the other years so I typed recipe archives into their search engine and it came right up. Enjoy.
Thank you! Guess what I am doing today…
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lmao, at a guess…..checking out the calendar site?
Nooooooooo
I have picked out lots of recipes already!! My waistline says to let you know that it is all your fault!
lmao!
Man alive! That site is crazy good! Thank you!
You’re very welcome.
Leave out the veggies and add a tiny bit more flour top with strawberry (or any kind really, but I like strawberries
) jam. Makes a great breakfast, kind of a twist to a pancake.
Ooh! That sounds good!! Thank you!
Potato cakes are the perfect way to use up leftover mashed potatoes!
I agree!! Allan doesn’t though, so I don’t often make them. But I think they rock.