I'm still catching up on posting Christmas recipes (I'm only a little behind), I brought these Parmesan Garlic Mashed Potatoes to Christmas dinner at a family friend's house. I typically struggle to make mashed potatoes. I get impatient with boiling or baking them, I don't understand why they take soooo long to cook through. In my impatience I decide the potatoes must be done (even when I know they're not) and take them out early. I don't recommend taking that approach with potatoes, it's the reason my first attempt at Gnocchi turned out a little wonky and my mash potatoes have a somewhat unsettling crunch to them.
In the spirit of Christmas I decided I would be patient, I would not set a timer and the potatoes would be taken out when they were cooked and not when I wanted them to be done.
Success! I thought about not showing up and only sharing the potatoes with CPB but that didn't seem very nice. There were a lot of hungry boys at our Christmas dinner and the potatoes disappeared pretty quickly. I suspect my little brothers (HLCIII & TW) may have eaten half of them all on their own. They were rich, cheesy and creamy. No lumps, no crunch. Perfect.
In the spirit of Christmas I decided I would be patient, I would not set a timer and the potatoes would be taken out when they were cooked and not when I wanted them to be done.
Success! I thought about not showing up and only sharing the potatoes with CPB but that didn't seem very nice. There were a lot of hungry boys at our Christmas dinner and the potatoes disappeared pretty quickly. I suspect my little brothers (HLCIII & TW) may have eaten half of them all on their own. They were rich, cheesy and creamy. No lumps, no crunch. Perfect.
