{"id":8687,"date":"2007-03-19T22:31:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-20T02:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/03\/19\/potato-pancake-i-think\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:35:11","slug":"potato-pancake-i-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/03\/19\/potato-pancake-i-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Potato Pancake (I think?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_6615-scaled.jpg\" height=\"640\" border=\"0\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>In line with <a href=\"http:\/\/matt303.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">matt303<\/a>&#8216;s suggestion, I took some of the <a href=\"http:\/\/c0nsumer.livejournal.com\/984847.html\">mashed potatoes which were leftover from Thursday<\/a> and mixed them together with a whisked egg. Then I added a small handful (all that I had left) of some pre-shreadded cheddar cheese. <\/p>\n<p>This mixture was then placed in a small non-stick skilled containing some melted butter and cooked. After about 10 minutes it was turned with the assistance of a plate (to keep it from falling apart) and cooked for somewhere around another 10 minutes. This was then served with some salad, a glass of water, and a Cadbury Creme Egg.<\/p>\n<p>Next time I make this I will likely make two smaller cakes which will fry quicker and be easier to turn. Other than that (and the lettuce for the salad being a bit brown) it was excellent.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and I also just finished <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Wizards-Langley-Directorate-Science-Technology\/dp\/0813340594\">The Wizards of Langley: Inside The CIA&#8217;s Directorate of Science and Technology<\/a>. It was okay, but the political infighting discussions wore on me a bit, and the author&#8217;s analysis of the CIA&#8217;s future at the end feels like a somewhat forced way to wrap up the book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In line with matt303&#8216;s suggestion, I took some of the mashed potatoes which were leftover from Thursday and mixed them together with a whisked egg. Then I added a small handful (all that I had left) of some pre-shreadded cheddar cheese. This mixture was then placed in a small non-stick skilled containing some melted butter\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12943,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8687\/revisions\/12943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}