Quick Potato Cakes

These go great as a side dish, and anyone can make them. This is just the basic recipe, but you can add a whole bunch of other items to these cakes such as parsley, onion, garlic, pieces of cooked meat, whatever. They are very versatile.

Basic Potato Cakes
2-3 Potatoes
Salt and Pepper
1-2 Eggs
2-3 TBSP oil (or more as needed)

1) Peel Potatoes. Shred with carrot shredder.
2) With your hand, squeeze out water from the potatoes one fist full at a time.
3) Add eggs, salt and pepper to the squeezed potatoes.
4) Add some oil to a pan and drop small balls of potato cakes onto it. Flatten the balls.
5) Fry on medium-high till crisp on both sides.
6) Makes 8 cakes.