GolfHos

Thought this article might be appropriate for golfhos:  http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/14/dining/14spud.html


OK, come on now, let's hear your favorite mashed potato recipes -- lots of butter?  Creamy?  Garlic?  Lumpy?  Instant flakes? 

it depends on if they're for a snack or a meal.

Lumpy!!

Red potatoes, skin on, roasted garlic cloves, a dollop of sour cream, butter, lumpy.

Essential to start with beautiful, floury, Irish potatoes (*).  Boiled and served with butter, salt and pepper.  Mash 'em with your fork on the plate.

* No offense to Idaho but it's honestly not even a fair fight.

Instant box flakes.  Completely smooth, strive for wallpaper paste.

Butter.  Pepper.  Gravy.

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* blight smite +1 *

Hey, I'm the PBR drinker. Stroh likes that MGD *feces*e.

What's the difference?

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Should this be prefaced with NSFW for E-A-G-L-E ??

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Ditto - but with loads of butter  :drool:

I suppose it depends who you are??

<------makes gravy volcano  [sm_anon]

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<---- recants previous statement after consulting Urban Dictionary.

 [sm_shock]


Wow. Learn something new every day.

note to self:  eliminate "I like gravy volcano" from vocabulary

Forgot to add in my favorite -

Barely mashed, still fluffy, with lots of butter and salt.   Gravy is unnecessary, but a nice bonus. 

I like them with either butter/garlic or gravy.  Prefer them to not be too lumpy but do like the skins left on.

I thought that was the reason for the "[sm_anon]".

LMAO!   ;D  [sm_rolling]

I haven't looked it up, but one could reasonably assume to see me on the home page making them soon. [sm_shock]

 ;D  :-[

Did someone mention mashed potatoes? 

Yummy, yummy, yummy, yummy!!! :D


My favorite mashed potato recipe is really simple:

Boil potatoes (with or without skin)
Mash slightly, then gradually add milk while continuing to mash until fluffy.*
Place in serving bowl, then sprinkle with paprika.  Place square of butter in center.

Place potatoes on plate, make a gravy lake**, and place butter on top.  Salt and pepper to taste.

*may include a tbsp or two of butter.
**mashed potatoes as a snack usually excludes gravy and replaced with extra butter.


Baked potato:

Take any potato(es), preferably yukon or new (red have a slightly bitter skin, you know), and bake in oven.
Slice in half, butter then mash slightly.  Salt and pepper to taste.  Place a dollop of sour cream on top.

How 'bout both? :D

No!  That article has me wishing I had time to make a snack.  But, alas!  I'm having an early supper tonight.  Guess I'll have to put them off to a mid-night snack.

Um... wtf is wrong with people that there's actually a term for such an act?

Or there is even such an act.  [sm_disgust]

i blame germans.

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OMFG!!!  I just looked it up (now that I'm home)

LMAO!

spacey.........agreed.  WTF??!!

Aside  from who's credited with giving it a name.  Um.  Who was that bored one night, and said "Hey, hun.  Instead of our usual routine.  I was thinking........"

Boiled, then peeled, then diced roughly, then mashed incompletely.  With the right potatoes, it's magic.  And without the butter, sour cream, and all that other crap.  Let the spuds shine.

(Plus, the lathering can get you in trouble with the law.)

I thought sour cream, etc. was for a baked potato(e)

I'm pretty sure it was the misinterpretation and confusion of the definitions for "lathering" and "slathering" that gets you in trouble with the law.  That, and eating mashed potatoes as a snack.  Thankfully, the law isn't extended into parallel universes.

Or not! :D  Supper was venison roast and corn and mashed potatoes! ;D (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v285/Minnesnowta_Girl/Smileys/w00t.gif)