Not exactly your ordinary (potato) cake

So, I haven't been meddling with my baking equipments lately largely due to, well, the lack of a good kitchen. Cooking/baking is personal (to me). I need to feel before I can start. After moving to SF, I found myself leaving most of my culinary gadgets in the garage of my mom's. Using my roommates' stuff is... just not the same... until I had a chance to cook for my birthday this past weekend at my friend Teresa's kitchen.

Teresa's gone through Le Cordon Bleu's intensive culinary program last summer. I admire her, and her pantry, and her kitchen. She has everything I want in a kitchen! When she gladly accepted my request to cook in her kitchen, I knew it was going to be a blast. On top of everything, she has all the cookbooks, including Ad Hoc at home!

I picked out the Scallion Potato Cake and it was a LOT of fun to make. On top of that, it goes with a variety of things. We ended up putting smoked salmon with horseradish cream on it. And it - was - yum-my!

(Recipe to come soon)