Latkes

I do my meal planning on Saturday afternoons, and then Matt and I go grocery shopping together sometime over the weekend. Last weekend, he was out of town so I went by myself. When he got home, I announced, "This week, I am making the food of my people."

Matt laughed at me. "The food of your people?"

Okay, so I know I'm sort of technically Jewish only by heritage, but I'm proud of that heritage. I enjoy celebrating it when I can, even though I identify as a Christian by faith. So when I was flipping through the Bride and Groom First and Forever Cookbook we got as a wedding gift and saw a recipe for latkes, I was all over it.

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I followed the recipe exactly, except that I don't have a food processor that shreds, so I just used a large hand-grater on the potatoes and onion.

I normally don't like frying food, but for potato pancakes I'll make an exception. :)

They turned out fantastic. Exactly as I remembered them. Matt had never tried latkes before, but I get the feeling he liked them. He only ate about 10 of them. :)

Have you ever tried latkes? What ethnic foods do you like?