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[Virginia]

Potatoes were being discussed at beauty shop yesterday. To be exact mashed potatoes. Some of the ladies (and both are very slim, and small) talked about putting cream cheese in mashed potatoes, along with butter and half and half and one person even puts mayonnaise in hers sometimes. They like Idaho potatoes for creaming, but I can't find them. I can only find Russet.

[agate]

Potatoes were being discussed at beauty shop yesterday. To be exact mashed potatoes. Some of the ladies (and both are very slim, and small) talked about putting cream cheese in mashed potatoes, along with butter and half and half and one person even puts mayonnaise in hers sometimes. They like Idaho potatoes for creaming, but I can't find them. I can only find Russet.

Virginia, Idaho potatoes are just russet potatoes that have been grown in Idaho, I think.

Only potatoes grown in Idaho can be called Idaho potatoes. The soil there is different. Or at least that's what the folks in Idaho are saying. It helps to market their potatoes, maybe?

I've never tried putting cream cheese in mashed potatoes. My mother always mixed in some milk and a bit of butter.

I've hardly ever made them. My husband wasn't one to hate food of any kind but mashed potatoes were the one exception. He wouldn't go near them.

And since then they've been pretty high calorie for a couch potato like me.

I've heard of smashed potatoes but never tried them. The name doesn't appeal but the recipe looks as if they might be good even though it sounds as if they've been run over by a truck.

[SuzE-Q]

Agate, I'm sorry, but the image of you knocking down the potato display is quite funny in my mind.

I'm sure it wasn't funny at the time, but in retrospect, you gotta admit that's a good dinner time story to pull out!

[agate]

Seems to me it was funny at the time. A helper was with me, but I do recall barely suppressing laughter when I saw those potatoes and the way they had flown hither and yon. Some of them went quite a distance!

[Sunshine]

It could make an excellent premise for a Seinfeld episode :)

[Virginia]

I liked that story too Agate.

You've never had mashed potatoes? How have you gotten through life - they are definitely comfort food. If made right just wonderful. I have never tried all the stuff they were talking about at the hairdressers, but I just put butter and milk. I just ate and it makes me hungry all over again just thinking about them. How could you eat fried chicken or country style steak without mashed potatoes.

I really think Agate may have been deprived - NO MASHED POTATOES!!!!

[agate]

Virginia, I guess I didn't make it clear. My mother made great mashed potatoes (and gravy), but as an adult I didn't make them--and I avoided them if they were on a menu somewhere because they never looked nearly as good as those my mother used to make.

[Cat Dancer]

I only use butter and milk (I rarely have cream in the house) in my mashed potatoes. Cream cheese sounds strange...but I could see using sour cream...

We should probably move this to the cooking thread, but the way Tom Cat loves potatoes these days is this: take a russet (or Idaho, or baking potatoe..all basically the sae thing) and lay it sideways. Slice off a thin slice on the bottom, so the potato lays flat. Then slice thin vertical cuts through the potato ALMOST but not quite all the way through. Fan open the potato. Sprinkle with onion powder, garlic powder, rosemary, salt and better. Melt some butter, pour over the potato making sure it gets into the slits of the potato. Bake in the oven for about 20 minutes, or zap in the micro for about 5. Time will depend on the size of the potato. If done in the oven, the outside (skin) gets crispy. Either way, really good. Oh, and you could sprinkle the spud with grated cheese, like parmesan, before baking. Yumm!!

[agate]

I agree about moving this discussion. If BBS agrees and
if any moderator is reading, could posts 51 through 68 be moved to Cat Dancer's "OT Lazy Cooking with Cat" thread, please?