Tato Pancakes

So I got some scallions from my CSA and I was all "wtf do I do with these?" I pondered this for a time, before thinking, "I've never made potato pancakes before. Is this doable?" (Yes. It is.)

I washed 3 small-to-medium potatoes, then shredded them on the biggest-hole side of my box grater. Then I dried them by squeezing them through a dish-towel over the kitchen sink. Then I changed into a shirt that was not covered in potato juice.

I chopped up 2 of the scallions into super-teensy-tiny pieces, mixed them with the potatoes, and squished it all together with the white of 1 egg, a dash of salt, and a couple good grinds from the pepper mill.

I heated up vegetable oil in a skillet (a couple times around the pan? ish?) and slopped piles of potato-scallion-goo into it. I started with the pan at high heat, but I burned the bottom of my first two attempts kind of badly. Went better with the third one on medium heat. They're pretty lumpy and might only very charitably be called "pancakes" rather than "panblobs", but I ate them anyway. Voila: