Grating Potatoes

As ever we bought too much food for Christmas and now there is the frenzied searching of the fridge to work out what we have to eat and by when.

The ham has been sliced and tin foiled into Nigel sandwich sized parcels, so that's 8 days food in the freezer.

Our bargain Tesco's "buy one get one free" 2.5kg of potatoes was planned to be potato and leek soup, after all the ham generated a huge amount of stock, now residing in the freezer in small plastic containers, but the market had no leeks and I really didn't want to get into the car (I'm thinking of the cost of fuel involved in this as well now!) and go to the supermarket. So we decided on rosti's.

Rosti's actually helps us out on a number of front. Firstly, obviously the potatoes, then there's the left over onions (red and yellow), then the garlic, and the extra cooking bacon that I didn't use in the super cheese straws that I made earlier (more on that later). The final benefit - my forearms. We decided that our ancient food processor, which seems to have several modes (chunks, small chunks or decimation) wouldn't actually help. So I'm around 1.25kilos into a series of scraped and grated potatoes.

Taste test: Great, wow. I made these? Around 20 mins in a frying pan (ok, so I had to go to Odells and pick up some cooking rings, but I figure this will be one of our freezer staples that we'll make at the weekend and warm up during the week. Put it this way, it will make a change from the veggie chilli and curry that has made up our staple winter diet for the last two years.

Back to the kitchen, another batch is on route, although I'm not sure my forearms are fit enough for the rest of the grating!