Posted on May 19th, 2008 by admin
This is another delicious way to use up left over mashed potatoes and cabbage. Mix together mashed potatoes and cabbage with a beaten egg and a little butter and milk. Form into cakes about ½” thick and 3” to 4” across. Fry on top of the stove in butter or bacon fat. Serve with fried eggs and bacon. I’ve also tried this dish using left over Brussels sprouts instead of the cabbage and it works well.
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Posted on May 19th, 2008 by admin
This is a good way to use up left over mashed potatoes. For each breakfast cup of mashed potatoes add a beaten egg, a teaspoon of butter and a tablespoon of milk. Beat together until the mixture is fluffy but stiff. Either fry in a little butter of bacon fat, or you can arrange in large spoonfuls on a baking sheet and place in a hot oven until the outside turns crisp. As an alternative try adding a little grated cheese while at the mixing phase. If it’s to your taste you can also add a little finely chopped onion.
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Posted on April 14th, 2008 by admin
You wouldn’t think that a move from the Highveld to the coast would affect ones cooking strategy, but it does, in no uncertain terms. Take a simple item like a boiled egg. Fussy eater that I am, I like my eggs boiled for such a time that when I come to eat them, the yolk is soft and the white completely set. How an egg turns out depend upon several factors:
The size of the egg
The thickness of its shell
The length of time it is immersed in boiling water
The temperature of the boiling water
The atmospheric pressure
You might thing I’m being a little too exacting here, but facts are facts. On an average day in the Highveld, a jumbo-sized egg with an average shell thickness takes exactly seven minutes to be cooked to my liking. Cook it for the same time at the coast and you’ll get a hard-boiled egg. Why? The reason is that the Highveld is between five and six thousand feet above sea level, so the atmospheric pressure at that altitude is much less – result, water boils at a lower temperature and so it takes longer to cook something. At the coast my jumbo egg takes five minutes.
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