This is the sort of thing that never appears in a recipe book. Because you watch your mother and grandmother making it and you just think it's food. But the day after Thanksgiving is not complete for me without mashed potato cakes!!

Ingredients:

• Some flour (on a plate)
• Some leftover mashed potatoes (cold)
• Some butter
• Salt and pepper to taste

Divide the mashed potatoes into portions and then make them into balls. Flatten the balls into a "cake" and then flour both sides of the potato cake. Fry the potato cakes in butter until you get a golden crust on both sides. Use a bit of salt and pepper on them.

These are good with gravy, without gravy, with meat, without meat. They are just good.

(You can extend the potatoes by mixing in an egg and some flour. But that's messy. You still have to flour the cakes and fry them.)