Croquetas

These are not your mother’s croquettes. Yes, they are also breaded, deep-fried parcels of egg-bound solid ingredients, but the croquettes Mom made were a medium for re-serving leftovers. After you served the roast chicken on Tuesday, you could chop or slice what was left and stick the pieces together in a sticky medium of egg and flour. Roll that into Ping-Pong-ball-size spheres, bread them, and fry them until crisp. Not a bad thing. Indeed, such croquettes could hold their own proudly in t