U.S. Janet B. wrote:
>
>Now that I think about it, I do a sort of cross over. In recent years
>I have occasionally been making mashed potatoes from red potatoes. I
>leave them skins on, roughly mash them and mix them with butter, milk,
>sour cream and horseradish. Those are mighty fine mashed potatoes.
>I think I just became accustomed to certain texture for potato salad
>and mashed potatoes.

Even throughout childhood mashed potatoes was rarely on the menu, only
for holiday meals with company expected. Otherwise my mother would
boil potatoes and anyone wanted mashed could mash them on their
plate... I still occasionally do that when I get the urge for
childhood comfort food, I like mine very lumpy, mashed with plain
yogurt or sour cream, sometimes buttermilk when available... and fresh
dill. I find the mashed potatoes most people prepare are way over
worked, more like library paste, they may as well prepare instant from
a box.

As a child there was always a big bowl of cold boiled potatoes in the
fridge, a staple to be used however one wanted; salads, added to hash,
fried with eggs, and my favorite was sliced into cold soup,
borscht/shav. I still often slice cold boiled potatoes into tossed
salads... makes a bowl of greens a lot more filling and I never did
like croutons in a salad, still don't. My father was Latvian and I
still have his eating style. My mother was an excellent cook and she
cooked whatever he liked. Her parents being European they had very
similar eating preferences but she also prepared a lot of foods she
liked but he didn't. My mother was big into pickled herrings and I
like that still, only the jarred ones don't compare to her homemade...
what I wouldn't give for a bowl of her homemade chopped herring.

> wrote in message
...
> "Cheri" wrote:
>>"Julie Bove" wrote:
>>> "Wayne Boatwright" wrote:
>>>
>>>> I make a variety of potato salads. The only exception for
>>>> me is using canned poatoes. I can't stand the texture or the flavor.
>>>
>>> I do like them but only once in a while. Have to be in the mood for
>>> them.
>>> I eat them heated with butter and parsley or cut up in soup. Not sure I
>>> would want them in potato salad though but never tried them that way.
>>
>>DH loves them in a potato salad, I don't.
>>
>>Cheri
>
> I don't like canned potatoes for any purpose, they make as much sense
> as would canned broccoli. How difficult is it to boil potatoes?!?!?
> Canned potatoes are in the same class as canned ****ghettis.


Because he likes the taste of them would be my best guess, has nothing to do
with how difficult something is or isn't, and what you like or dislike has
nothing to do with his taste either. Have a great 4th!

Cheri

Sheldon wrote:

> "Cheri" wrote:
> >"Julie Bove" wrote:
> >> "Wayne Boatwright" wrote:
> >>
> >>> I make a variety of potato salads. The only exception for
> >>> me is using canned poatoes. I can't stand the texture or the flavor.
> >>
> >> I do like them but only once in a while. Have to be in the mood for them.
> >> I eat them heated with butter and parsley or cut up in soup. Not sure I
> >> would want them in potato salad though but never tried them that way.
> >
> >DH loves them in a potato salad, I don't.
> >
> >Cheri
>
> I don't like canned potatoes for any purpose, they make as much sense
> as would canned broccoli. How difficult is it to boil potatoes?!?!?
> Canned potatoes are in the same class as canned ****ghettis.


IIRC you once referred to their texture as resembling used condoms...that is about right, lol, they are disgusting.


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On Tuesday, 4 July 2017 10:10:06 UTC-5, Sheldon wrote:
> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
> >Cheri wrote:
> >> "Julie Bove"wrote:
> >>> "Wayne Boatwright" wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I certainly don't think like that. I make a variety of potato
> >>>> salads according to what appeals to me at the time. The only
> >>>> exception for me is using canned poatoes. I can't stand the
> >>>> texture or the flavor.
> >>>
> >>> I do like them but only once in a while. Have to be in the mood
> >>> Not sure I would want them in potato salad though but never
> >>> tried them that way.
> >>
> >> DH loves them in a potato salad, I don't.
> >>
> >> Cheri
> >
> > David likes them, but I won't even buy them.
> > He has to do the buying himself.
>
> Can't get any more low life faggoty behavior.


Yup...that is *absolutely* correct...


> My wife likes many foods I don't like but I've never refused to buy
> those items. I also like many foods she doesn't like but she has
> never refused to buy those items. Whoever goes shopping buys whatever
> is on the list, no faggoty dictatorship here... never even occurs to
> us not to buy whatever for each other... and grocery shopping is the
> one thing we rarely do together, only because she likes to take a
> whole day going from store to store plus making detours to clothing
> shops etc. When I grocery shop I make quick work of it, I don't like
> strolling up and down each aisle where I know there is nothing I want.
>
> Now we all know that Davida is the subjugated female in the
> relationship.
>
> My brother is a flaming faggot so I've witnessed many faggoty
> relationships, one is always Dominate, Domineering, and Disgusting.


Lil' Wayne and Davida's househould sitch sounds akin to Blanche and Jane Hudson's in the flick "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?"...LOL...!!!


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> wrote in message
...
> "Cheri" wrote:
>>"Julie Bove" wrote:
>>> "Wayne Boatwright" wrote:
>>>
>>>> I make a variety of potato salads. The only exception for
>>>> me is using canned poatoes. I can't stand the texture or the flavor.
>>>
>>> I do like them but only once in a while. Have to be in the mood for
>>> them.
>>> I eat them heated with butter and parsley or cut up in soup. Not sure I
>>> would want them in potato salad though but never tried them that way.
>>
>>DH loves them in a potato salad, I don't.
>>
>>Cheri
>
> I don't like canned potatoes for any purpose, they make as much sense
> as would canned broccoli. How difficult is it to boil potatoes?!?!?
> Canned potatoes are in the same class as canned ****ghettis.

Not hard at all but they were good for me when I lived alone. I could never
eat a bag of potatoes all by myself and even if I bought only a few, they
might still go bad before I could eat them. Plus they are good to have in
the winter if I get snowed in.

Julie Bove wrote:
><penmart wrote:
>> "Cheri" wrote:
>>>"Julie Bove" wrote:
>>>> "Wayne Boatwright" wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I make a variety of potato salads. The only exception for
>>>>> me is using canned poatoes. I can't stand the texture or the flavor.
>>>>
>>>> I do like them but only once in a while. Have to be in the mood for
>>>> them.
>>>> I eat them heated with butter and parsley or cut up in soup. Not sure I
>>>> would want them in potato salad though but never tried them that way.
>>>
>>>DH loves them in a potato salad, I don't.
>>>
>>>Cheri
>>
>> I don't like canned potatoes for any purpose, they make as much sense
>> as would canned broccoli. How difficult is it to boil potatoes?!?!?
>> Canned potatoes are in the same class as canned ****ghettis.
>
>Not hard at all but they were good for me when I lived alone. I could never
>eat a bag of potatoes all by myself and even if I bought only a few, they
>might still go bad before I could eat them. Plus they are good to have in
>the winter if I get snowed in.

On the rare occasions that I haven't gone through potatoes fast enough
I'll make a potato kugel and freeze it, however it will smell so good
it will end up being eaten. And potato kugel can keep well in the
fridge for up to a week or it freezes well.
https://www.thespruce.com/classic-potato-kugel-2122379
Potato latkes are easy to make and freeze well too, if you can resist
fressing.

On 7/4/2017 1:52 PM, The Greatest! wrote:
> IIRC you once referred to their texture as resembling
> used condoms...that is about right, lol, they are disgusting.
>
>
You look like a reservoir tip condom, hog head.

http://imgur.com/a/pIc5vhttp://imgur.com/a/pIc5v LOL!

On 7/4/2017 1:58 PM, The Greatest! wrote:
> Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
>

http://imgur.com/a/TnY25 <---LOL!

On Mon, 3 Jul 2017, tert in seattle wrote:

> U.S Janet B wrote:
>>
>> this was a topic here some years ago and I was surprised how many
>> people do use russets. (found out that's how my mother-in-law makes
>> hers) I had never heard of such a thing.
>> Janet US
>
> for me boiled russets are only good for mashing
>
>

waxy are better for potato salad.
Russets are better for mashed.

barbie gee told us...
>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 3 Jul 2017, tert in seattle wrote:
>>
>>> U.S Janet B wrote:
>>>>
>>>> this was a topic here some years ago and I was surprised how
>>>> many people do use russets. (found out that's how my
>>>> mother-in-law makes hers) I had never heard of such a thing.
>>>> Janet US
>>>
>>> for me boiled russets are only good for mashing
>>
>> waxy are better for potato salad.
>> Russets are better for mashed.

Depends on how cooked and how mashed.

Waxy potatoes make excellent mashed, but need to be baked rather than
boiled... and most people beat potatoes to death and call them
mashed... whipped potatoes are NOT mashed potatoes... a potato ricer
works best however I prefer lumps so I mash mine in my plate using a
fork.

Russets make great potato salad but be sure to start in cold water,
don't over cook, cool quickly, and allow to dry in the fridge prior to
slicing... also be sure to have all potatoes the same size when
cooking whether baked or boiled. All boiled root vegetables need to
be started in cold water or the exteriors will become mush while the
interiors are still raw.

barbie gee wrote in rec.food.cooking:

>
>
> On Mon, 3 Jul 2017, tert in seattle wrote:
>
> > U.S Janet B wrote:
> > >
> > > this was a topic here some years ago and I was surprised how many
> > > people do use russets. (found out that's how my mother-in-law
> > > makes hers) I had never heard of such a thing.
> > > Janet US
> >
> > for me boiled russets are only good for mashing
> >
> >
>
> waxy are better for potato salad.
> Russets are better for mashed.

Depends on what you are used to and how you cook them. Russets not
overcooked work well. Sometimes though I like a comfort food from my
childhood. Mom would cube russets up all pretty then over cook them so
we had 'mashed potato salad'. I actually liked it and do it
deliberately sometimes.

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