What better day than the 4th of July to try  a new pancake! Since pancakes are one of the best things ever invented it was time to make use of our leftover mashed potatoes. As usual we didn’t use one potato pancake recipe in particular but took queues from a few different recipes on the Internet, including some ingredients from Paula Deen. Since this was our first try we were worried how they would turn out, but since I make the world’s best pancakes they were delicious!

Potato Pancake Recipe

We started with our leftover mashed red potatoes which were made with plenty of real butter, McCormick’s Montreal Steak seasoning, milk and crushed garlic. I took about 2 cups of these left-over potatoes and added 1 egg, 1/2 diced medium onion, a good handful of shredded cheese (I had a 4 cheese blend), a good sprinkling of cayenne pepper, salt, black pepper and a little milk then mixed it together in a medium mixing bowl.

I then melted some REAL butter in my electric skillet, enough to cover the bottom of the skillet well. Right before it would have started to smoke, I took heaping tablespoons of potato pancake “batter” and made them into 3/4 inch thick patties and placed them into the skillet. As soon as they were nice and golden brown I flipped them and browned the other side.

Greg, Sarah and I had never had potato pancakes so we aren’t sure what they “should” taste like but these were excellent! I was definitely happy we included onions and cheese. We served them with steak and eggs, easy over. I apologize that I don’t have pictures of the end result (I hate recipes without pictures). So the next time I make them I will be sure to snap a picture and add it to this post.

Would love to see some additional recipes added and comments!!