Love Starts from the Kitchen

The Fun Household’s famous Chinese Potato Pancakes 薯仔餅

It almost sounds like bragging, but I am blessed with a husband who is willing to cook and can cook really well on certain dishes.  This version of Potato Pancakes is my family’s tradition.  I taught it to Fun Senior when we first married, and since then he has mastered it so well that I only need to place my order.  Fun junior female placed the order last night and here you are, it’s my pleasure to share with you our family famous recipe:

Prepare your potatoes either by a food processor or by hand grating them to coarse julienne pieces.  A few hours ahead, soak about half a cup of dried shrimps (found in any Chinese grocery store) with warm water.  Chop the softened dried shrimps into very fine pieces and add to the potatoes.  Add some finely diced spring onions in the mix too, the more the merrier, this is a personal taste thing, as long as they don’t overwhelm the potatoes.

Then you have to marinate the mixture with some oil, salt, white pepper and some corn starch, best is to mix them by hand.  If the mixture becomes watery, pour out some of the juice.  However, if you can stand the juice, it will be slowly absorbed as you pan fry the pancakes, so it does not really matter.  The stickiness nature of potatoes might call for slightly more oil than usual for pan frying, you have to adjust it as you go along, have Fun!

As you can see from the picture, you can make these pancakes into pretty big ones.  It is entirely a personal thing how big you want them to be.  Of course, it also has to do with your ability whether you can flip pancakes well.  Just go ahead and experiment with them.  The only problem is, I have not made this dish for so long, I cannot share with you on tips.  I had tried to ask Senior to write today’s blog but he has politely declined it.  If you do encounter any questions when you make this dish, please drop me a line.  We also talked about whether we can bake them instead of pan frying last night, anyone wants to take up that challenge?

So as you can see, there are a lot of good cooking going on in our household and sometimes I just got to eat without doing the work.  There are many reasons why I love Fun senior so much and the fact that he is willing to cook makes him so much more lovable.  If you are a guy reading this blog – remember Love starts from the kitchen!