Potato Latkes

 HAPPY HANUKKAH 

You can not have Hanukkah without Potato Latkes!  We only make these once a year and they are so delicious.  Super easy to make, just a little time consuming but definitely worth the time.

Ingredients:

5 lb bag of Yukon Gold Potatoes

2 large onions

1 Tablespoon salt

1/4 cup Matzoh meal (you can also use flour)

Preparation:

Using a food processor with both the bottom blade and top grater attachment on 

grate two large onions and transfer grated onion to a large bowl.  Next using the same attachments process 1/2 the potatoes and transfer to the same bowl with the onion.  Lastly remove the bottom blade from inside the food processor and just use the top grater attachment to process the rest of the potatoes.  You will now have 1/2 the potatoes as "mush" and half the potatoes shredded.  In a large bowl add all the potatoes, onions and the rest of the ingredients and mix until well blended.

Heat a large skillet with about 1/2 inch of vegetable oil. (If you have more than one large frying pan you may want to use two to make the frying of the latkes go faster).  I like to take spoonfuls of the potato mixture and squeeze out the extra liquid using my hands and place mounds of the potatoes into the hot oil pressing down lightly with the back of the spoon.  Let potatoes get nice and golden brown on one side and then flip them over to brown on the second side.  Once both sides are golden brown remove with spatula and place on paper towels to drain.  Repeat this until all the potato mixture is used up.  Serve hot!

You can store these in the refrigerator and reheat in the oven or air fryer.  Latkes also freeze really well.  Freeze in a single layer and then you can store in a ziplock bag in the freezer and just take out a few at a time and reheat in the oven or air fryer.

Marshmallow Snowmen Stirrers

How cute are these little guys?  My kids are obsessed with hot chocolate lately so I thought it would be fun to dress up their mugs as an activity one day after school.   These cute marshmallow stirrers are so easy to make and the kids can definitely help.  They would also be cute to have pre-made for a holiday party as a stirrer or just a yummy little winter treat.

Ingredients:

Wooden skewers

Large marshmallows

Rolo chocolate candy for hat (or any small round chocolate candy. i.e; junior mints etc.)

Orange fruit slices (or any orange gummy candy that can be cut to look like a carrot)

White icing/frosting (very small amount for glue to adhere the nose)

Black writing gel

Preparation:

First put 1 marshmallow onto the skewer, next add half a marshmallow for the head.  If you squeeze the marshmallow a little you can get it to be slightly smaller than body.  Last add the Rolo for the hat.   Cut your orange candy slices into small triangles for the nose.  You can adhere the nose with a tiny bit of white icing.   Use the black writing gel to make eye and 3 buttons down the body.   I found my gel was coming out too fast and making huge blobs so I put a blob of writing gel on a paper plate and then using the pointy side of another skewer I dipped it in the black gel and then used that to add my eyes and buttons.

If when all is said and done and you don't feel like making these from scratch you could always buy these adorable peep snowmen at a the grocery store which are really cute too!  Please let us know if you try these.  We would LOVE to see pics of your little snowmen on our Facebook page ;)  Just click the link below.

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