Mashed potato question...

Chatty Cathy said...

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What do you add to your mashed potatoes (if anything)?

I add butter...
Anybody else?

+ white pepper
+ cream cheese

Andy

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What do you add to your mashed potatoes (if anything)?

I add butter...
Anybody else?
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Chatty Cathy

Celeriac, swede and garlic 🙂

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Chatty Cathy said...

Quoted message said:

What do you add to your mashed potatoes (if anything)?

I add butter...

I rarely use butter for anything. However, I will add goat
butter to mashed potatoes if that's a possibility. More
usually, either buttermilk or yogurt, and sometimes olive
oil.

I have not come up with a really good version of mashed potatoes
that is dairy-free. I've tried soy milk and almond milk
and it doesn't really work.

Steve

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I add <more> butter. In the kitchen and at the table.

Felice

Chatty Cathy said:

What do you add to your mashed potatoes (if anything)?

I add butter...
Anybody else?
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I chop 1-3 cloves of garlic- put in a pyrex measuring cup. Add 2-4
TBLS butter, some milk or 1/2 & 1/2, salt, and pepper, and heat in
microwave until hot. Use as directed. Best made with Yukon Golds.

Chatty Cathy said:

What do you add to your mashed potatoes (if anything)?

I add butter...
Anybody else?

Cheddar cheese and chopped green onions or bacon bits

Chatty Cathy said:

What do you add to your mashed potatoes (if anything)?

I add butter...
Anybody else?

Meat loaf and gravy.

Scott said:

Chatty Cathy said:

What do you add to your mashed potatoes (if anything)?

I add butter...
Anybody else?

Cheddar cheese and chopped green onions or bacon bits

Aha! I've done that before, too! It's a wonderful combo.

If I'm making them without really a plan, I usually just use butter and
cream. I'll sometimes add roasted garlic cloves or, as Scott said, bacon
and cheddar. It all depends upon the main dish.

kili

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Chatty Cathy said:

What do you add to your mashed potatoes (if anything)?

I add butter...
Anybody else?

Cheddar cheese and chopped green onions or bacon bits

Butter, cream, salt, white pepper.

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I add butter...
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I add crushed garlic cloves to the salted water that I boil the potatoes in.

After they're done I use a ricer to process (the garlic as well) and then fold in sour cream and/or buttermilk
and fresh ground pepper.
Sometimes add a little of the potato water if they are to dry.

David.

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I add butter...
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I add butter and milk (or cream if I have it on hand), salt, pepper, and I
find freshly grated Parmigiano-Reggiano can be a nice touch.

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Onions sauteed until they're a deep, sensuous rich brown color. At son's
request.

Chatty Cathy said:

What do you add to your mashed potatoes (if anything)?

I add butter...
Anybody else?

Butter and milk, salt and pepper. Sometimes roasted garlic.

Serene

Steve Pope said:

I have not come up with a really good version of mashed potatoes
that is dairy-free. I've tried soy milk and almond milk
and it doesn't really work.

When I'm making vegan mashed potatoes, I just use the potato cooking
water as the liquid, and I use Earth Balance in place of my usual
butter.

Serene

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Celeriac, swede and garlic 🙂

Wise guy. 🙂

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What do you add to your mashed potatoes (if anything)?

I add butter...
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Butter, cheese, milk, pepper, garlic powder in varying combinations, no
salt however.

Pete C.

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Chatty Cathy said...

Quoted message said:

What do you add to your mashed potatoes (if anything)?

I add butter...

I rarely use butter for anything. However, I will add goat
butter to mashed potatoes if that's a possibility. More
usually, either buttermilk or yogurt, and sometimes olive
oil.

I have not come up with a really good version of mashed potatoes
that is dairy-free. I've tried soy milk and almond milk
and it doesn't really work.

Steve

Is there anything that "soy milk" actually works for? I love tofu, but
"soy milk" *shudder!*...

Pete C.

Chatty Cathy said:

What do you add to your mashed potatoes (if anything)?

I add butter...
Anybody else?

For "standard" mashed potatoes, I add butter plus some combination of
milk and cream to thin, and salt. A few variations:

creme fraiche - in place of both butter and milk or cream. Simply
divine.

sour cream - poor man's creme fraiche.

plain yogurt - like creme fraiche, in place of some (or all) of the
milk/cream/butter. There is kind of a continum from good creme
fraiche to good, high milkfat yogurt to decent yogurt to pathetic
yogurt. Draining some of the whey from any yogurt tends to move it up
the ladder by concentrating the flavor.

buttermilk - like yogurt, but thinner.

roasted garlic - an addition to any of the above.

wasabi - I don't use butter if using wasabi.

Things I have heard about but not tried:

stock plus eggs in place of milk and butter, done by kosher cooks.
Good old kosher cooks probably include some schmaltz.

stock plus mayonaise - also kosher, and less likely to lead to
scrambled eggs.

Later,
Mark Muller

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What do you add to your mashed potatoes (if anything)?

I add butter...
Anybody else?

Oh my. Depends on what I'm doing with them. Sometimes I add chopped fresh
chives. Sometimes I'll add grated cheese of some kind. Most of the time
it's just butter, s&p.

Michael

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