Khaner and I were fortunate enough to have some wonderful friends help us move to the new house. With neither of us owning much furniture, it seemed wasteful to hire movers. As a small thank you, we had them over last week for dinner. Being a very meat-and-potatoes type family, I wanted to prepare mom's roast beef with mashed potatoes, gravy and vegetables for them.
Since becoming a homeowner, I find myself trying to utilize whatever I have in the house for entertaining purposes, which is a great departure from my usual routine - normally, I can't do a thing without a recipe, run around to every store picking up whatever they call for, and rarely deviate from instructions.
So of course, I followed a recipe for these particular mashed potatoes, but to the disdain of my mother, I used yukon rather than white potatoes. Ina Garten, my second go-to gal for recipes (Mom is definitely #1) had a delicious mashed potato recipe, that allowed me to use my three pound bag of yukon gold potatoes I already had.
Mom, I have to say, they turned out phenomenal, not at all like "glue" like you told me they would :)
Full recipe here:
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| For anyone who knows In Garten, she typically calls for some rich ingredients - I figured since I don' make mashed potatoes often, we could indulge. I did opt for the fat-free milk we had in fridge, rather than whole. |
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| Slice potatoes into small chunks and boil for 12 minutes |
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| Though my mother is very old-fashioned in how she cooks, the year she received a Kitchen Aid Mixer from Santa, she stopped using her hand masher. We were lucky enough to receive one from the Walkers last Christmas - it is fabulous! |
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| Finished product! Delicious with roast beef, and not too bad as leftovers on day two :) |
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