When Things Go Wrong: Perkedel and Stuff

There is a day, a day when Michelle shines like a star.
But it's not at that particular day when Michelle tried to cook perkedel.

Lesson I learned: palm oil is not an ingredient that you can easily substitute with veggie oil.

Michelle's Guide to the Imperfect Perkedel

What is perkedel?
Perkedel is basically a deep fried potato patty.

Why did Michelle fail at making this? Good question. Outstanding for you, Troll for Michelle.

Step One: cut those potatoes. Why? Well, just because. You don't actually have to cut them.

 Second step: Boil them til they're soft, super soft, just like your blanket.

 Step Three: do this.

Step Four:mash them. It's a good way to relieve stress. Potatoes won't complain to you when you hurt them. Even more, they don't go to the same school as yours, they won't tell any of your friends about your violent behavior. In the same time, you need to put the right amount of eggs. Michelle failed that. She didn't use enough eggs.

Step Five: Deep Fried them with palm oil. Yes, this is wrong. This is a picture of Michelle before burning the patties and almost set her friends' fire alarm off. This is a picture of Michelle just frying them with veggie oil.

 Step Six: make yourself feeling better by making stir-fry spinach. It works. Your American friends will encourage you and lift your spirit up by saying that your stir-fry spinach is wonderful.

Step Seven: Cry before you go to bed for failing to make perkedel, one of the easiest Indonesian dishes ever. But life must go on, so use the leftover from that mashed potatoes layover to make a curry soup. It's the college life kid; you have to improvise.

Well, if you want to do your research...here's a good link: http://indonesiaeats.com/potato-perkedel-patties-frikadeller-frikadel/

Brought to you by Michelle, not-the-best-Indonesian-cook-around.