Classic Mashed Potatoes

INGREDIENTS

INSTRUCTIONS

Cover the potatoes with cold water and bring to a boil. Cook for 20
minutes, or until tender. (Watch the pot! Potatoes have a tendency to boil
over.) While the spuds are cooking, slowly heat the milk and butter. When
the potatoes are done, drain them and add half the hot milk mixture. Mash
the potatoes with a handheld potato masher or an electric mixer. Keep
adding the hot milk until you reach the proper consistency (which, of
course, varies from family to family). Season with salt, pepper, and
nutmeg, if desired. Serves 4 to 6.
VARIATIONS- *Spuds with Jewels: In a frying pan, heat 1 teaspoon of
vegetable oil and briefly saute 1 diced red pepper (add hot peppers such as
green jalapeno for fire). Stir in 1/2 teaspoon basil. Immediately pour on
top of mashed potatoes.
*Green Potatoes: Use an electric mixer to blend 1 to 2 cups chopped cooked
spinach into one batch of mashed potatoes until they turn green.
*Red Coats: Use purple, red, or new potatoes with their skins on.
*The Cheddar Broccoli: Mix 1/22 cup grated Cheddar cheese with 1 cup
chopped, steamed broccoli florets and fold into the mashed spuds.
*Prague Potatoes: Panfry 4 strips bacon until crisp. Remove from the pan
and add 1 diced onion, cooking until translucent. Crumble the bacon into
the onion. Top mashed potatoes with bacon, onion, and drippings, using 1
1/2 teaspoons, or less, of fat per serving.
*Golden Broil: Spread prepared mashed potatoes in an oven-to-table baking
dish. Drizzle 1/2 cup heavy cream over the top and sprinkle with Parmesan
cheese. Broil until the top turns golden.
*Breakfast for Dinner: Serve mashed potatoes in a large bowl topped with 3
to 4 chopped hard-boiled eggs chopped fresh parsley and chives.
*Tatties'n'Neeps: For the Scots' way of using up leftover mashed pototoes,
mix equal amounts of mashed potatoes and mashed turnips.
*Colcannon: Mix mashed potatoes with l 1/2 cups shredded, cooked, drained
cabbage or kale. *Bangers and Mash: Try this English recipe - serve plain
mashed Potatoes with broiled or pan-seared sausages ("bangers") on the
side.
*Fenced-in Spuds: Surround a mound of mashed potatoes with a fence of
steamed green beans and carrot sticks.
Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #180
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 16:42:49 -0700 (PDT)
From: PatH <phannema@wizard.ucr.edu>
NOTES : Reviewed in "Vegetables your kids will eat," Family Fun Magazine,=
May 1996.  Flavored to perfection, homemade mashed potatoes may
seem like a=
lot of work, but a little peeling and mashing are worth the
effort.

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