Salad of Potato Cakes with Chives

Like many excellent ways of cooking potatoes, this comes from Germany. These flat crisp discs are excellent on their own or as an accompaniment to meat dishes. They can be used, too, to make an excellent first course. By taking any salad leaves available in early spring from the garden – overwintered spinach beet, sorrel, lamb’s lettuce, radicchio – and turning them in a pungent dressing of lemon juice and a nut oil, and then using two potato pancakes per person to make a kind of sandwich o