We had shepherd's pie and potato pancakes for dinner

[KitchenWitch]

The shepherd's pie was good.

I need to polish my technique on the potato pancakes though...(they tasted good, they just did not stay together).

[Lyric]

1. We made latkes (potato pancakes) for lunch today. How did you

make yours? Maybe I can help--ours always stay together perfectly.

:hug:

[KitchenWitch]

2. Mine was from a recipe I downloaded

Shredded potatoes
Egg
Minced onion
Diced scallions
Salt and pepper

I would have thought the egg would have bound it all together, but it did not

[TK421]

6. The onions ruined it....I'm pretty sure

:hi:

[Lyric]

7. Hmmm. No matzo meal?

When we make ours, we always use two well-beaten eggs, about three cups of grated (not shredded) potatoes, 1/2 cup of grated/minced sweet onion, about a third-cup of matzo meal, kosher salt, and pepper. Also, you should soak your grated potatoes for about 10 minutes in cold water, then rinse them in a fine sieve before doing anything else. Don't ask me why, I have no idea--that's just how my grandma always did it.

I'd bet that your problem was the lack of matzo meal, though. It's a terrific binder, especially when mixed with the eggs.

:hug:

[KitchenWitch]

10. Ah, I will have to get me some matzo meal.

[WCGreen]

13. You soak them to get rid of ecess starch...

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

9. Just buy them frozen at Trader Joe's

That's what we do.

[KitchenWitch]

11. But I am trying to cook from scratch

I need a challenge in my life right now. :D

[jobycom]

3. Poor sheperd! Was it German?

[greenbriar]

4. how do you make your shepherds pie?

I fry burger then a layer of cheese, then cream style corn, then mashed potatos then more cheese

my family eats it up

[KitchenWitch]

5. I brown ground beef, onion and celery together

Put the browned beef mixture into a baking dish, then I put a layer of chopped carrots and frozen peas, then the layer of mashed potatoes and bake it until the carrots are cooked through and the potatoes are golden brown.

[malta blue]

8. Did you really dry the potatoes?

I find that if I don't drain and dry them, the latkes fail...

Oh, and I am now making this for dinner tomorrow...Want!

[KitchenWitch]

12. Maybe that was it.

I will dry them better next time.

Never really realized how much moisture is in a potato.