Fancy Mashed Potatoes

~patches~ said:

This is a family favourite that appears just about everytime we get
together. The pic is before baked. Recipe sort of follows.
http://tinypic.com/elcr3k.jpg

Here's how I make them. Peel 10 lb potatoes and cut into large pieces.
Add a couple cloves garlic and 1/2 chopped onion. Bring to a boil and
cook until potatoes are soft. Remove from heat & drain. Add 1 block (8
oz) cream cheese & about 1/2 a container of sour cream (~ 1 1/2 c), a
couple of pieces of butter, & milk. Beat mixture until smooth - be
careful not to beat too long or the potatoes will get gooey. Spoon the
mixture into a casserole pan. Top with a few pieces of butter, bread
crumbs & fresh chopped chives. Bake at 350 F until lightly browned on
top.

A few questions:

1. What do you use to beat the potatoes? A hand mixer?

2. When you add the cream cheese, sour cream, butter, and milk, are they
straight out of the refrigerator? Or do you warm them at least to room
temperature before adding them?

3. What size casserole dish is that? Ten pounds of potatoes seems like a
LOT!

Bob

Bob Terwilliger said:

~patches~ said:

This is a family favourite that appears just about everytime we get
together. The pic is before baked. Recipe sort of follows.
http://tinypic.com/elcr3k.jpg

Here's how I make them. Peel 10 lb potatoes and cut into large pieces.
Add a couple cloves garlic and 1/2 chopped onion. Bring to a boil and
cook until potatoes are soft. Remove from heat & drain. Add 1 block (8
oz) cream cheese & about 1/2 a container of sour cream (~ 1 1/2 c), a
couple of pieces of butter, & milk. Beat mixture until smooth - be
careful not to beat too long or the potatoes will get gooey. Spoon the
mixture into a casserole pan. Top with a few pieces of butter, bread
crumbs & fresh chopped chives. Bake at 350 F until lightly browned on
top.

A few questions:

1. What do you use to beat the potatoes? A hand mixer?

I use electric egg beaters.

Quoted message said:

2. When you add the cream cheese, sour cream, butter, and milk, are they
straight out of the refrigerator? Or do you warm them at least to room
temperature before adding them?

Straight from the fridge. I'm a tad lazy sometimes 🙂

Quoted message said:

3. What size casserole dish is that? Ten pounds of potatoes seems like a
LOT!

It seems like a lot and you will need a big stock pot to cook them in
but once they beat down they will fit into a lg. casserole dish - 9,5" x
13.5" x 2" deep

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Bob

Bob Terwilliger said:

~patches~ said:

This is a family favourite that appears just about everytime we get
together. The pic is before baked. Recipe sort of follows.
http://tinypic.com/elcr3k.jpg

Here's how I make them. Peel 10 lb potatoes and cut into large pieces.
Add a couple cloves garlic and 1/2 chopped onion. Bring to a boil and
cook until potatoes are soft. Remove from heat & drain. Add 1 block (8
oz) cream cheese & about 1/2 a container of sour cream (~ 1 1/2 c), a
couple of pieces of butter, & milk. Beat mixture until smooth - be
careful not to beat too long or the potatoes will get gooey. Spoon the
mixture into a casserole pan. Top with a few pieces of butter, bread
crumbs & fresh chopped chives. Bake at 350 F until lightly browned on
top.

A few questions:

1. What do you use to beat the potatoes? A hand mixer?

2. When you add the cream cheese, sour cream, butter, and milk, are they
straight out of the refrigerator? Or do you warm them at least to room
temperature before adding them?

3. What size casserole dish is that? Ten pounds of potatoes seems like a
LOT!

Bob

Oh forgot to add, these do freeze quite nicely just warm up slowly and stir.

Bob Terwilliger said:

~patches~ said:

This is a family favourite that appears just about everytime we get
together. The pic is before baked. Recipe sort of follows.
http://tinypic.com/elcr3k.jpg

Here's how I make them. Peel 10 lb potatoes and cut into large
pieces.

(snippage)

Quoted message said:

3. What size casserole dish is that? Ten pounds of potatoes seems
like a LOT!

Bob

Yikes! I was wondering, was she on KP duty in the military? Here's a 25
pound sack of potatoes... start peeling! LOL

Jill

Bob Terwilliger said:

~patches~ said:

This is a family favourite
http://tinypic.com/elcr3k.jpg

Looks exactly like puke, really.

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Peel 10 lb potatoes

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(snippage)

Quoted message said:

3. What size casserole dish is that? Ten pounds of potatoes seems
like a LOT!

Bob

She's just guessing (poor guesser), should be obvious ~patches~ is a
liar.

On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 06:25:54 -0400, in rec.food.cooking, ~patches~
<[email hidden]> hit the crackpipe and declared:

Quoted message said:

This is a family favourite that appears just about everytime we get
together. The pic is before baked. Recipe sort of follows.
http://tinypic.com/elcr3k.jpg

Heavens to Betsy! The next time you get carsick, please don't take
pictures and post!

Quoted message said:

Here's how I make them. Peel 10 lb potatoes and cut into large pieces.

Ten pounds! Mercy! Are you expecting the Marine Corps for dinner?

Quoted message said:

Add a couple cloves garlic and 1/2 chopped onion. Bring to a boil and
cook until potatoes are soft. Remove from heat & drain. Add 1 block (8
oz) cream cheese & about 1/2 a container of sour cream (~ 1 1/2 c), a
couple of pieces of butter, & milk. Beat mixture until smooth - be
careful not to beat too long or the potatoes will get gooey. Spoon the
mixture into a casserole pan. Top with a few pieces of butter, bread
crumbs & fresh chopped chives. Bake at 350 F until lightly browned on top.

Thank you for the mashed potatoes recipe, Dearie. What's next, green
bean casserole?

Grandma Goodguts said:

On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 06:25:54 -0400, in rec.food.cooking, ~patches~
<[email hidden]> hit the crackpipe and declared:

Quoted message said:

This is a family favourite that appears just about everytime we get
together. The pic is before baked. Recipe sort of follows.
http://tinypic.com/elcr3k.jpg

Heavens to Betsy! The next time you get carsick, please don't take
pictures and post!

Quoted message said:

Here's how I make them. Peel 10 lb potatoes and cut into large pieces.

Ten pounds! Mercy! Are you expecting the Marine Corps for dinner?

No just kids, spouses, & selves 🙂 And it was good!

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Add a couple cloves garlic and 1/2 chopped onion. Bring to a boil and
cook until potatoes are soft. Remove from heat & drain. Add 1 block (8
oz) cream cheese & about 1/2 a container of sour cream (~ 1 1/2 c), a
couple of pieces of butter, & milk. Beat mixture until smooth - be
careful not to beat too long or the potatoes will get gooey. Spoon the
mixture into a casserole pan. Top with a few pieces of butter, bread
crumbs & fresh chopped chives. Bake at 350 F until lightly browned on top.

Thank you for the mashed potatoes recipe, Dearie. What's next, green
bean casserole?

Sorry never made that but maybe someone else here has.

You can make anything taste great if you add five bucks worth of dairy
products.

F.J.

fudge said:

You can make anything taste great if you add five bucks worth of dairy
products.

How about just 50¢ worth of butter...

Sheldon

~patches~ said:

Grandma Goodguts said:

What's next, green bean casserole?

Sorry never made that but maybe someone else here has.

I have, I do, I will and dog gone it, people like it.

🙂

sf said:

~patches~ said:

Grandma Goodguts said:

What's next, green bean casserole?

Sorry never made that but maybe someone else here has.

I have, I do, I will and dog gone it, people like it.

🙂

Grandma Gut is someone we all know but in disguise 😉

~patches~ said:

sf said:

~patches~ said:

Grandma Goodguts wrote:

>What's next, green bean casserole?

Sorry never made that but maybe someone else here has.

I have, I do, I will and dog gone it, people like it.

🙂

Grandma Gut is someone we all know but in disguise 😉

Lemme guess... uses an old version of Agent, Earthlink is the
provider.... hmmmm.

In article <[email hidden]>,

fudge said:

You can make anything taste great if you add five bucks worth of dairy
products.

Does that mean it's twice as good with US$10.00 of dairy products?

:-)

--
Dan Abel
[email hidden]
Petaluma, California, USA

In article <[email hidden]>,

~patches~ said:

No just kids, spouses, & selves 🙂 And it was good!

Jealousy is a sad thing. Sounds good to me, although I'm not sure it
fits into my diet too often.

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Thank you for the mashed potatoes recipe, Dearie. What's next, green
bean casserole?

Sorry never made that but maybe someone else here has.

Yeah, it's pretty good, too.

--
Dan Abel
[email hidden]
Petaluma, California, USA

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Dan Abel said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

~patches~ said:

No just kids, spouses, & selves 🙂 And it was good!

Jealousy is a sad thing. Sounds good to me, although I'm not sure it
fits into my diet too often.

I agree jealousy is a sad thing, rather ugly too.

They are very, very, very good. Sadly they do not fit into our diet
often either 🙁 These really are about a 2 - 3 times a year side dish
served at special get togethers.

~patches~ said:

This is a family favourite that appears just about everytime we get
together. The pic is before baked. Recipe sort of follows.
http://tinypic.com/elcr3k.jpg

What is that orange stuff on top??

On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 11:41:18 -0400, Goomba38 <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

~patches~ said:

This is a family favourite that appears just about everytime we get
together. The pic is before baked. Recipe sort of follows.
http://tinypic.com/elcr3k.jpg

What is that orange stuff on top??

Paprika, I'd wager.

Boron

Wayne Boatwright said:

On Sat 22 Oct 2005 09:06:21a, Boron Elgar wrote in rec.food.cooking:

Quoted message said:

On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 11:41:18 -0400, Goomba38 <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

~patches~ wrote:

> This is a family favourite that appears just about everytime we get
> together. The pic is before baked. Recipe sort of follows.
> http://tinypic.com/elcr3k.jpg

What is that orange stuff on top??

Paprika, I'd wager.

Boron

Butter & breadcrumbs, according to the recipe.

Yeah...I suppose reading the recipe in the first place might have
given me a hint....still looks like paprika, which is a staple in my
house. Anything pale gets dusted.

Boron

On Sat 22 Oct 2005 09:06:21a, Boron Elgar wrote in rec.food.cooking:

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On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 11:41:18 -0400, Goomba38 <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

~patches~ said:

This is a family favourite that appears just about everytime we get
together. The pic is before baked. Recipe sort of follows.
http://tinypic.com/elcr3k.jpg

What is that orange stuff on top??

Paprika, I'd wager.

Boron

Butter & breadcrumbs, according to the recipe.

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