Kitchen wombling: chorizo potato cakes

I haven’t been doing a lot of cooking since my Inner Womble made beer bread a few weeks ago, and in fact the remaining breadcrumbs are still in the freezer. But now I am freelance and I have a bit more time and energy to experiment, and am keen to Womble my way through the stack of ingredients that’s lurking around in the kitchen.

Ryan and I have been away for a few days to Devon, and our trips normally involve buying things for breakfast from a local supermarket. Ryan picked up a packet of 4 plain scones, and ate 2 of them. By the time we got home they were a little on the stale side. So I decided to see whether the Inner Womble could turn them into something tasty for dinner.

In the end I settled on using them for crumbs. My original idea was to make fish cakes, but looking in the fridge I found some cooking chorizo – I opened the packet before we went away, so that needed using up. Some potatoes, a handful of frozen sweetcorn and a pinch of Italian herbs from a packet in the freezer (close to its use-by date, I notice), and I was ready to roll.

Potato-based cakes (or burgers, if you prefer) are the kind of thing that come together out of whatever’s on hand, and are flexible enough not to need a recipe. But if you like following them then I have written down this one properly for you