Dredge them into crumbs instead of flour.
This entire thread is like a bizarro universe, because you are a good cook and I am a terrible cook, yet potato cakes are one of the very few things I make that consistently turn out well without much effort.
I would enjoy my left over mashed potatoes… then make some proper latkes next time.
How about the Manachevitz (sp) that come in a box?
I just melt butter in a frying pan, take the mashed potatoes out of the refrigerator, grab a hunk and form it into a patty, then drop it into the pan. I’ve been doing it for 40+ years and never had them turn liquid or ooze.
MRS. STAHL’S CLOSED? Man, I used to make a whole meal out of one knish. I haven’t lived in New York in a long time, though.
Wow. That place had been there since the Depression.
When I make a knishes, I usually make pretty big ones, and don’t serve them as a side. I’ll serve two different cooked vegetables, a salad, and a plate of cheeses. So the knish is sort of the main course. We’re vegetarians, though, so we make all sorts of meatless meals that don’t just sub some fake meat in for the meat course. Anyway, that’s why I don’t mind putting time into them. I make extras and eat them for lunch with a glass of milk and fruit for days.
RivkahChaya: Yes, it closed about three years ago. The corner building is now a Subway chain sandwich shop, if you can believe it. Yonah Schimmel still carries on on Houston Street, Manhattan, though. Just a block from Katz’s deli, so you can also indulge in a nice brisket sandwich or a bowl of matzoh ball soup.
You don’t chop your cooked veggies INTO the knishes? My favorites at Mrs. Stahl’s were the spinach-potato and the broccoli-potato. The kasha knish was really good, too, but dry…you needed to make some kind of sauce or gravy to go with it.
it be bizarro world
i love you so i strike you in head with potato masher
i strike you in head twice with potato masher
It’s as abominable as gefilte fish in a jar.
And damn, I didn’t know about Mrs. Stahl’s either. If I returned to NYC today, I wonder how much I’d recognize. But glad to know Yonah Schimmel is still on Houston.
If you enjoy Starbuck’s coffee, Rite-Aid drugstores, and the Bank of America, you’ll be delighted.
A lot of Manhattan depresses the ever-lovin’ shit out of me these days, having come here in the days of quirky little bookshops, record stores, diners, butchers, bakers, candlestick makers, etc. No one can afford rents any more.
Hm. Possibly your mash is just too wet to start with - maybe squeeze it through cheesecloth and then chill again? Being faster with your handling so it doesn’t warm up before cooking might help; and make sure the pan isn’t overcrowded. Seems to me that your ‘medium low’ is too low - 15 minutes each side is too long I reckon - should be about 5.
Other than that, I got nuthin’.