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Default 9 Mashed Potato Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

"Wayne Boatwright" wrote in message
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On Mon 13 Nov 2017 06:12:34p, jmcquown told us...

> On 11/10/2017 7:14 PM, wrote:
>> On Friday, November 10, 2017 at 4:32:16 PM UTC-6, Julie Bove
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> > wrote in message
>>>
>>>> The addition of cream cheese is a trick some people use when
>>>> they have a holiday buffet dinner and everything is kept piping
>>>> hot in crockpots. This is particularly useful when you have
>>>> family and guests showing up at different times of the day. No
>>>> lines at the microwave waiting to heat up your plate of food.
>>>
>>> I tried the cream cheese in the Crock-Pot once. Was pretty sure
>>> I wouldn't like it as I don't like cream cheese but nobody else
>>> liked them either. Had to toss them out.
>>>

>> Of course you nor anyone else in your house would like the
>> addition of cream cheese to your mashed potatoes.
>>

> Waaaah! Yet again. She doesn't like it and nobody else liked.
> Can she ever sing another song?
>
> How about this oldie but goody? Harvest Mashed potatoes. I had to
> dig this one up from 2006.
>
> 4 large red or russet potatoes (2 pounds)
> 2 medium-size sweet potatoes (1½ pounds)
> 1/4 cup butter or margarine
> 1/2 cup milk
> 1/4 cup sour cream
> 1/4 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
> 1 Tbs. prepared horseradish
> 1/4 tsp. salt
> 1/4 tsp. pepper
> 1/4 tsp. ground cinnamon
> 1/4 tsp. ground nutmeg
>
> Bake sweet potatoes until tender (425F, about an hour); peel and
> mash the sweet inner part. Cook russet potatoes (cut large ones in
> half) in a Dutch oven in boiling salted water to cover until
> tender; peel and mash or press through ricer and combine with
> sweet potatoes. Add 1/2 cup butter and next 8 ingredients; mash
> with a potato masher or mix with electric hand mixer until smooth.
> Place in baking pan and bake until heated through and starting to
> brown on top.
>
> These days, I'd skip all the pumpkin pie type spices and just go
> with a combo of boiled then mashed russet and sweet potatoes.
> Butter, milk and sour cream. Cream cheese wouldn't be out of
> place instead of sour cream.
>
> Jill
>


Someone should make this and feed it to Julie with a shovel!

Wayne Boatwright

==

How very kind.

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