Crawling Up The Wall

It has been a while since we have had a recipe on here, not really my fault since I am broke.

Well this week sees me make Latkes. Or as I like to call them (insert crappy Boston Irish accent a la Ray Winstone in The Departed) Potato Pancakes. Associated with Jewish, Czech, German and Polish cuisine, they are a simple side to make as either appetisers or with the main meal. If that many cultures are laying claim to it then it has to be good right?

Latkes

Ingredients

Potatoes, Flour, Onion and Eggs. All relatively cheap and remember you should have them at all times since they are versatile.

peel an onion and then add it to the mixture.

Then peel and grate and onion. Mix Them together.

Crack two eggs and add them to the mixture. Bind well.

Then grab and pan, heat up some oil. Add the mix a spoon full at a time.

Read some pretentious art magazine that you got for free. Then look at the fact that it cost 4.50 (!) and wonder if you can sell it on the streets.

Couple of minutes on each side, keep on low heat if you are going to fuck around and do other things. Drain with paper towels.

Serve with ketchup. Actually if done properly, you could have this with a pork chop and apple sauce.

The good thing about them is that if you make a ton, they make great hangover food.

Dean Martin Would Love it

One of my current fave places to eat in london is Vapiano. Not only is it delicious and relatively cheap but it is full of beautiful women. Anyway the cachet to this german run italian restaurant is that the food is made directly in front of you. One of the dishes that i enjoy after a great night out is Carbonara. Which gained it's name due to it resembling charcoal (bits of pancetta and black pepper) in the spaghetti.

Here is the Stakes is High Version.
Carbonara

1. Ingredients needed pancetta, an egg yolk, creme fraiche, parmesan and linguine or spaghetti.

2. Boil the pasta. add a bit of salt and oil. Whilst this is happening fry the pancetta in a pan. do it until it hits browning.

3. Then put the egg yolk in a bowl with 4 heaps of creme fraiche. add as much parmesan as you want. i would suggest about 4 teaspoons full (you can add more later)

4. Drain the pasta, add the bacon and the fat. stir. Then add the creme mixture. Tunr off the heat and stir you dont want to end up with scrambled eggs. add plenty of black pepper. I didnt.

5. Season with Salt and Peppa and more cheese.

6.Get Phil Collins to Eat it.

Healer

Just came back from the bookies. God that place is depressing. As a firm believer that one should not gamble when no income is coming in, the forlorn faces in there reassured me that it wasn't for me. However i still have this romantic notion that going to the dogs is a laugh. Why else would they have created a dvd?


Anyway it reminded me of the Superbowl party that me and my bro had. We were supposed to have more people come over but due to the snow - no one bothered going out at 1 in the morning.


Stakes is High Guide to throwing a good Superbowl party aka make good salsa.


Step one: Have a Steven Segal movie playing in the background. I happened to have Exit Wounds on.


Step two: heat up the avocados to make 'em ripe. They are a foreign fruit and it's unlike this snow is gonna get them soft.

Step three: Here are the ingredients needed. Onion, Tomatoes, Avocado,Lime, Salt and Peppa and a Laptop to listen to Chromatics album whilst cooking.

Step four: Chop all of it coarsely (the posh for lazy) then put in half a lime worth of juice. Season accordingly.

Step five: Enjoy the food. That was a photo of the final spread minus pizza. And yes that is a keg on the table.