One of Millie's Favorite's
As easy as it is to make fried potatoes and eggs my aunt would have had you all believing that it was one of the hardest things in the world to make. Well at least that is what she tried to make all of us believe, deep down we knew that she just preferred to have someone else do the cooking for her. We would all laugh when she would bat her eyelashes at her sister (my grandmother) and hint around about how good some fried potatoes and eggs would be. My aunt didn’t have to hint around for long my grandmother graciously accommodated her. It was always a cute ritual one we all miss dearly.
Fried Potatoes and Eggs
2 cups cooked potatoes, sliced
2 tbsp. shortening (Butter)
3 eggs
Salt & pepper
Fry sliced cooked potatoes in hot melted shortening, break the eggs over the potatoes, stirring quickly through the potatoes. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Fry a few minutes longer until eggs are done.
This may sound a bit unusual but this is a recipe that was created out of necessity. My great great grandfather made his own wine and kept it in barrels in an old dirt cellar. Potatoes were a very inexpensive staple so there were always plenty of them on hand which made this a very sensible recipe to present at the family table. Today it sounds like something you would order at a high end restaurant. I've grown to realize and appreciate with time that many of our greatest recipes throughout the world seem to have been created during times of struggle. I have always found it quite interesting that some of the richest of foods were created during the poorest of times. Maybe that's where that old saying "Less is more"comes from.
