Potato Soup

One of the foods that I remember is soup when the weather starts to get cold. Just thinking about soup makes me feel warmer. Good!
When I opened refrigerator I saw potatoes, I made potato soup. 
Ingredients are very simple. If you have potato, milk, cheese, you can make it. That's it!
I wanted to make it a little more delicious, I made croutons using some pieces of sandwich bread in my freezer. It was an excellent choice!

Ingredients
3                                                    potatoes
1/2                                                 onion
1 C                                                 milk
1 C                                                 whipped cream
1 C                                                 cheddar cheese
3 T                                                 parmesan cheese
1 C                                                 water
2 pieces                                          sandwich bread
salt, pepper and parsley to taste
olive oil to cook

Directions
Peel and cut potatoes and onions
In a pan put olive oil and add onion and stir fry until brown.
Add potatoes and stir fry until potatoes are half done.
Add milk, cream, water and boil.
And then add cheddar cheese and season with salt and pepper and let cool.
Blend using hand blender.
Cut sandwich bread into bite size and in a pan without oil, put bite size bread and fry until golden brown.
Serve in a bowl and garnish with parmesan cheese, parsley and croutons.
Enjoy the soup!

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Korean Potato Pancakes - Gamja jeon

I like to use potatoes in a variety of ways - boiled, steamed, mashed, baked, fried... possibilities  are endless. 

Among them, my favorite is potato pancake.

Potato pancake(Gamja jeon) is an amazingly simple but delicious snack, appetizer... to eat.

These are called gamja jeon - gamja means potato and jeon refers to pancake-like dishes.
Jeon is usually eaten as an appetizer, banchan (small side dish) or anju (food to eat while drinking).
Especially, Potato pancakes always bring good memories to me. 
I remember my mother making potato pancakes for me on rainy days and... the first dish that I made for my husband was potato pancakes. 
That time, it was raining,,,  I made it and gave it to him. 
He was very happy, but he had no time to eat. So he hid the potato pancakes in the deep freezer, because he was worried that his father would eat it while he was out. Ha ha ha...


Ingredients
Pancake
2 Potatoes
salt to taste
oil

Soy dipping sauce
1 tablespoon soy sauce
1/2 tablespoons rice vinegar
sesame seeds to taste


Directions
Peel and grate potatoes.
Place mesh strainer over a bowl and pour the grated potatoes into the strainer and let sit for 15 minutes.  
Put the grated potatoes aside.
About 15 minutes later the potato starch will be in the bottom of the bowl and water will be on the top.
Remove water and only use the potato starch.
Add the potato starch to the grated potatoes.
Mix well with salt.
In a pan over medium heat, add a few drops of vegetable oil and then add some of the potato mix, 
Fill your pan with these discs.
Turn the discs over when they get brown on the bottom.
Serve potato pancakes with dipping sauce.

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