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Ed Pawlowski

On 11/14/2017 8:53 AM, Wayne Boatwright wrote:
> On Tue 14 Nov 2017 04:04:32a, Ophelia told us...
>
>> "Wayne Boatwright" wrote in message
>> 9.45...
>>
>> 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 (1Â½ 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.
>>
>
> I think it might be time for another length vacation from RFC.
>

Kill file would fix it.