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Potato and Leek Fried Thing With Cheese On It

This is a great one to serve your husband when he gets back from a grinding day at the office. Us housewives are always busy with ironing and Jeremy Kyle, but this quick and easy meal shouldn’t eat into your schedule too much.

What you need to do is like get some potatoes and take their skin off with some sort of implement – perhaps a potato peeler – and then give them a bit of a boil. Just 5 mins. But wait! before you do this get a leek or something (no, actually get a leek) and then slice it up proper. Then boil this with the tatties for a bit. Make sure you wash the leek well, as it might have loads of dirt in it.

Now, after those 5 minutes passed you by (you can watch Kyle during this – but don’t get too engrossed) get the par-boiled potato and grate it up. The leek (actually, now I’m thinking about it you shouldn’t have boiled the leek. Forget that bit. Fry it instead) should be already fried up at this point.

Now, rub your hands together in an excited manner, and toss the grated potato and leek into a frying pan – and fry it. OK OK, before all this, you should have got an egg and whipped it up so that all the yellow and see-thru bits are a yellowy colour. You can use a fork or something for this. Right, what I should have said is add the egg to the potato and leek BEFORE you put it in the pan. Right go back and do it again.

So, put that egg, potato and leek in little dollops. And fry them. You should probably add salt and pepper at this stage if you actually want it to taste of anything.

And you should find that these things are cooked after a bit of time has elapsed.

And Voila!

Your Fried Potato and Leek Thing is ready! You’ll probably find it doesn’t taste of anything at all, so get a massive lump of cheese out of the fridge and eat that with it.