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Happy New! Something different today, I thought about starting the year. If you follow this column carefully, you will have noticed that it is located in the "Culture" section. So far, however, it has seldom been about food culture.
One time it was about asparagus, maybe you remember, but why not write about something good?
If you follow this column morbidly attentively, you will have noticed that the penultimate episode was the 222nd, a schnapps number, and yet it was not about schnapps. But in this one, in the 222 + 2. - So with a lot of good will also a schnapps number - it should be about what you actually eat best with vodka.
Because the column here is called "Above and Below", today there is a recipe for something that has to be seared above and below: potato pancakes. (Note from my attentive editor: Logically you have to sear them from above and below, otherwise they are porridge around the bottom.)
Most people I know eat potato pancakes too rarely and it's not entirely clear why. We are changing that today, because you have to pick up the readers where they are, in other words in the kitchen if necessary. There are: potato pancakes with caviar, vegan or not, as you like. It will never be more liberal than today.
You need: potatoes (boiling hard), eggs (the ones for which no chicks are killed), flour (wheat, I would say, and no matter which one, honestly, does anyone know what these numbers mean?), Sour cream (or sour cream, also works), stuff for salad (make some salad as a side dish, not too fancy). Also: apples to cook apple sauce or ready-made apple sauce from the glass.
How much of what?
And then of course vodka (Polish if you ask me) and caviar. You can take real caviar, I think salmon caviar is better, but you are a free person. Or vegan caviar, because the entire recipe is also vegan. Then the eggs stay away, you can replace them with egg replacement or church flour (I've never done this before, no guarantee, I've just googled that) or just omit them. Instead of sour cream, either use vegan crème fraîche or mix soy cream with soy yoghurt. There is also vegan caviar, which is something made from algae and works well. What you probably have at home anyway: cooking oil, salt, pepper, and a little cinnamon if you cook the applesauce yourself. (And kitchen paper and a stove.)
How much of what? Yes, that's a good question. Quantities in recipes are fundamentally funny, because it somehow depends on how hungry you are. In theory, I would say for four people take 1.5 kilos of potatoes, two hands full of flour, three or four eggs, two cups of sour cream, 250 grams of caviar. But if, for example, there is a woman with acute PMS, it may only be enough for two.
Sometime before cooking you make the apple sauce, I don't have to explain that here, I think normal people have a shelf full of apple sauce at home anyway. Yes, and then it goes on like any normal recipe: knock everything together and then pan. For perfectionists: Preheat the oven to 50 degrees (or 40 or 70, it doesn't matter, warm and simple). Roughly grate potatoes, drain for ten minutes in a sieve. This results in a juice that you can probably learn somewhere on Instagram that you should wash your hair with it, but I have not researched it.
If you get bored in the ten minutes, read from Sibel Schick: " I can do away with Germany. A potato dish". Really good. Then flour, eggs, salt, pepper. Make a lot of oil hot, add a ladle of the mixture, flatten, fry. Above and below.
Don't forget to switch on the extractor hood. God save you if you don't have one. Place the finished buffers first on kitchen paper and then on a plate, which you keep warm in the oven while you fry the rest. Call to someone else in the kitchen that you forgot to take care of the salad and let that person do the salad. It's just decoration anyway, so that you don't feel like a greedy pig that feeds on fat and alcohol.
And then: pour vodka, cheers, puffers on the plate, big clacks of sour cream or the vegan equivalent on it, a little smaller clacks of caviar on it. Eat a few rounds of it and then the last round with apple sauce. Before each new buffer, pour everyone a new glass of vodka and toast to feminism and revolution. Think Virginia Woolf, who wrote, "You can't think well, love well, sleep well if you haven't fed well."
And thus a happy new year for everyone, with lots of good thoughts, love and sleep.
