Taste and Create: Easter breakfast with potato pancakes

This is my third Taste and Create entry and joining this event has really been an eye-opener for me. I have been paired with food lovers from across the world with dishes vastly different from what I am used to. I mentioned before that Filipinos eat rice as THE carbohydrate source so potatoes usually form part of the dish rather than as a dish in itself. I have been trying to expand my taste for potatoes thus from my Taste and Create partners I have looked at the many ways of eating potato.

For this month, I was paired with Kate of The Clean Plate Club. She has a lot of baked goodies but then, baking is not really my forte. So instead, I chose her potato pancake recipe just in time for Easter breakfast. I followed her recipe and served it with hotdogs and fried rice. Now, potatoes and fried rice? Basically I treated the pancake as a side dish to go with the hotdogs. Something new to introduce to my family. It tastes great, much like eating french fries and lends itself to many possibilities. Call it weird perhaps, but at the back of my mind, while taking a bite of the potatoes, I was mentally adding cinnamon, nutmeg and sugar to make sweet dessert. Or perhaps add some spices to make a savory side dish? Hhhmmm… I can’t wait to make these variations. Or this could go well with with grilled sausages on a perfect Easter Sunday… just put the sausage on the grill, put on the grill cover and cook your potato pancake at the same time!