It’s almost like we can’t even get any cheaper.  We are clearing out the roots and potatoes for the next onslaught of CSA winter vegetables this Thursday.  I’m bogged down.  I miss the summer and my leafy greens.  I am going to persevere with seasonal eating in effort to make Mr. Pollan proud.   This is what I came up with in the past few days…

Root Vegetable Latkes

I thought that my root vegetables would become more palatable when fried and topped with sour cream and applesauce.  I wouldn’t recommend these latkes to the faint of heart simply because they didn’t actually “stick” together the way the potatoes do.  I used sweet potato, white potato, celeriac, white onion and carrots.  I shredded everything with my Cusinart.  Then I started wringing out the moisture.   I added two eggs to the heaping pile, then a 1/2 cup of bread crumbs, salt and pepper.  I did my best to squeeze them into latke form and dropped them into screaming hot vegetable oil.  They hissed.  Some of them lost their shape and had to be fished out in pieces.  Others were fine.  It really didn’t matter when they were served up with homemade applesauce and sour cream.  They were crunchy on the outside and juicy on the inside.  Very good used of lots of roots.   If you need a latke recipe to model your root veg latkes on, you can find one here.