Reply #41: Potatoes, The Miracle Dollar-Stretching Food!

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Baked, with cottage cheese and salsa if I'm in a healthy mood. Or if you have a can of chili you can stretch it four ways by using it to top four baked potatoes.

My family really likes Latkes too. The trick is to grate the potatoes and then squeeze the excess water out in a strainer lined with muslin towels or paper towels. If you don't do this, they get soggy instead of crunch-oniony-delish!

Then basically you just mix the drained, grated potatoes with finely minced onion & garlic and eggs, and drop them in big spoonfuls into very hot oil. Size of smallish pancakes.

Cook on both sides until golden brown, they should look like hash browns when done. These are great with broiled apples or applesauce, sour cream and a pot of black tea. So good you'll forget you're broke! For an hour anyhow...