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  • Mashed potato - what do u add 2 urs?

    I love mash! just interested 2 know what every1 puts in their mash! Depending what we are having with it I put mainly, butter, cream cheese, chives or spring onions, mature cheddar, pinch of garlic, red onion and then add some more cheese and a sprinkling of chilli on top and pop it under the grill to brown! have also added mustard and lots of other herbs depending on what we are eating with it! also a bit of cream...mmmmm sooo nice!

    let me have your own recipes pls

  • #2
    celeriac, soured cream and parsley or some leeks sauted in butter
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    • #3
      mrsc2b, mash is my favourite form of potato, (although at this time of year newbies, with lots of melted butter (or Hollandaise sauce) come a close second)!!

      The method I use is from the Leith's Cookery School cookbook.

      Peel and boil the old potatoes, pass through a mouli legumes into a bowl. Boil up 'some' milk and butter (up to four ounces, depending upon the amount of potato, so that they are nice and buttery). Make a well in the centre of the potatoes, tip in the boiled milk/butter and beat vigorously with a wooden spoon.

      This is what I would term 'basic buttery mash'. From there on in, 'the world's your oyster!!

      Season, flavour, etc as the whim takes you, but as a 'basic', it takes some beating!!

      valmarg

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      • #4
        thanks valmarg! sounds lovely! what is a mouli legumes?

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        • #5
          Potato ricer!
          The weeks and the years are fine. It's the days I can't cope with!

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          • #6
            I think!
            The weeks and the years are fine. It's the days I can't cope with!

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            • #7
              Okay, I've just done a quick Google Images search - it's not a potato ricer, it's what I've always called just a mouli. This is a gadget for pulverising food into a puree, for example for feeding to babies as their first solids.

              There is a picture of one at http://olharfeliz.typepad.com/cuisine/plats/index.html - about 3/4s of the way down the page.
              The weeks and the years are fine. It's the days I can't cope with!

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              • #8
                potato and celeriac mash with a dollop of cream stirred in. Sublime.

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                • #9
                  I love both parsnip and swede mashed in with the potatoes, but find that if the swede is woody (i.e. every bloody swede bought from Tesco for years) then it doesn't mash well.

                  Guess what I'm growing at the Hill...........!

                  Defo butter, (luxury) cream, onion if I can be bothered.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by pigletwillie View Post
                    potato and celeriac mash with a dollop of cream stirred in. Sublime.
                    Never tried celeriac PW - I take it that you recommend I buy a packet to try in the various seed pack sales that are on at the mo?

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                    • #11
                      My favorite accompaniment with mashed potatoes is a nice peice of grilled gammon broad beans with parsely sauce poured over the beans might not be the answer you wanted but i am old fashioned and believe mashed spuds should be just that jacob
                      What lies behind us,And what lies before us,Are tiny matters compared to what lies Within us ...
                      Ralph Waide Emmerson

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by pigletwillie View Post
                        potato and celeriac mash with a dollop of cream stirred in. Sublime.
                        absolutely agree with you on this one PW, we never have mash without celeriac. the two rows of it on the plot are starting to look like the real thing, better than last years crop (only four plants reached a decent size). so hopefully can save a small fortune this year.
                        Kernow rag nevra

                        Some people feel the rain, others just get wet.
                        Bob Dylan

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                        • #13
                          Potato, butter (got to be Lurpak full fat etc.) and a good quality creme fraiche ..... mmmmm

                          And we love our mash with some good quality sausages baked in the oven (I was brought up on baked sausages, none of the fried stuff in our family!)
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                          • #14
                            I add chopped jalapeno's from jar!!! I imagine fresh ones would blow my hat off!
                            My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
                            to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

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                            • #15
                              I would suggest
                              make your mash as you like it
                              Separate an egg - or two - depending on the amount
                              Add the yolkes to the potatoes whisked up in some milk
                              Beat the egg whites til fairly stiff
                              Fold egg whites through the potatoes
                              Pile the whole lot into a baking dish
                              Dot over with butter
                              Bake at 180 degrees for about 30 minutes.
                              Serve straight away.
                              Beautiful creamed potatoes - soufle style.
                              Enjoy. Your family and guests will.

                              From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

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