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9 Mashed Potato Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
On Tue, 14 Nov 2017 21:40:17 -0000, "Ophelia" >
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>"Wayne Boatwright" wrote in message
79.44...
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>On Tue 14 Nov 2017 01:39:19p, Ed Pawlowski told us...
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>> On 11/14/2017 8:53 AM, Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>>> On Tue 14 Nov 2017 04:04:32a, Ophelia told us...
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>>>> "Wayne Boatwright" wrote in message
>>>> 9.45...
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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:
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>>>>>>> > 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.
>>>
>>> I think it might be time for another length vacation from RFC.
>>
>> Kill file would fix it.
>
>I have always used a kill file, but I don't know of one that can kill
>a quoted post within a post. There's the rub.
>
>==
>
>I am not you, but if I see a post with a response from someone I don't like
>to read ... guess what ... I don't read it!!!
But that requires a modicum of fortitude and common sense....
personality traits dirt-dishing fruits lack, lest they miss something.
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