Clearing out the fridge

Today I made Latkes for lunch. Reason being I had potatoes and eggs in the house that needed to be consumed. I forgot to take a picture of mine, because by the time I was done with the cooking, I was famished. They weren't too bad, and by this I mean that they weren't burnt or undercooked. They looked something like this:

The thing is, I never knew what Latkes were until today - Potato cakes of Jewish origin. I initially wanted to make Rosti, but after I had shredded the potatoes, I realised (from Google) that I should have boiled the potatoes before shredding them. So I searched Youtube and stumbled upon this dish, which suited my still very wet, shredded potatoes. I was initially going to dump the wet potatoes into the pan to fry, but something warned me against it. It was then that I started googling for a recipe for Rosti.

You know, I've never revealed the extent of my lousy cooking to anyone until now. I suspect Vader doesn't even know I could never even fry an egg properly until a few weeks ago, much less cook anything else edible for the family. I've always stayed away from anything that had to do with frying because I've always always failed. The food would either be too oily or burnt, because I could never tell when to put in the ingredients to be fried. Only very recently, I've ventured into fried food, because if the food is inedible, I could just toss it. No one is relying on my cooking at the moment to survive. Vader makes baby Vader's food, thankfully.

So, still baby steps for me. Hopefully one of these days, I can cook something which Vader and the children will truly enjoy!