Leftovers

It's that time of year when there's knitting going on but you don't know if you should share it. So I'll post about food.

I don't like leftover mashed potatoes, but after seeing the recipes in this NY Times article, I decided to deliberately make too much to eat in one night. I already had a can of wild Alaskan salmon from Trader Joe's (more on that later), so I chose to make the potato, salmon, and spinach patties (I skipped the garlicky dill cream because I'm lazy, but you shouldn't; I think they need it).

I think I am the one who suggested we buy the can of salmon because it was wild and so cheap, and I like canned tuna just fine, so why not? But then it sat in the cupboard forever because I eventually read the label, which says the ("edible") bones and skin are included. Ew. And the can was huge. I might have given it to the Boy Scouts if I had remembered to put anything out on my porch for their recent canned food drive. Anyway, I don't think I am going to buy canned salmon again. The bones and skin may be edible, but I don't really want to eat them. It took quite a while to separate what I was willing to eat from what I was not (skin, larger pin bones that did not fall apart when touched with a fork, and, worst of all, bits of backbone I really didn't think were edible).

I got so tired of dealing with the salmon that I didn't include enough in the mixture. We couldn't taste it in the final product.

They were a little bland, which is why you shouldn't skip the sauce. I'd make them again if I had leftover potatoes, but I usually don't.

Dinner tonight: beef carbonnade from Art of the Slow Cooker.