Rösti

20210808, #breakfastdiary 174, 29°C/occasionally cloudy, 59min/exercise Shred the prettiest potato in the world, sprinkle with salt, and let it sit for a moment. Squeeze out the moisture, set half aside, and pan-fry the rest in olive oil until crisp. Add sautéed onion on top, then layer the reserved shredded potato over it, and—heave!—flip it to crisp up the other side. Bacon crisped up, egg sunny-side up, a scattering of Parmesan. Swiss-style potato pancake. #rösti *A little potato starch would probably make it even crispier. All we can do is keep pushing through. Mostly we lose, and once in a while we think we've won, but we'll be back to losing again soon enough. That's why life brings you to tears. A few weeks ago, a junior colleague apologized to me for not managing to get something done. I told them: 'Let's not despair too quickly, and not hope too easily, either.' Because the road ahead of us is long—very long.