Ahhh Zenster I’m sure we’re merely sitcom-worthy, not quite Jenny or Jerry material yet!
fervently hoping that’s true
Would you please join my family, Skerri? We’d love to have you:). Especially if you tell stories like that - you and my grandfather could entertain the family for hours:).
Ava
I washed dishes for a chef that used to melt the milk, butter and seasonings together before putting in the mashed potatoes - they were the best mashed potatoes I’ve ever had. (I was a green teenager at the time, and didn’t even appreciate the level of his cooking. {Heavy sigh})
Great suggestion, featherlou! I’d mix it with the milk as well.
Yup, always with the recipes. That’s me!
Heh. If there was ANYWHERE that I could get a recipe for “Mashed Po-Fucking-Tatos”, it would have to be the SDMB.
(And thanks, Zenster, I will use that recipe someday!)
Avabeth, I’m always up for a family. And I never met my grandparents, so your grandfather would be a welcome addition. 
And I think RTFirefly is onto something there. I’ll gladly trade two of my sisters for two slightly used brothers. (I deal better with guys than girls, anyways.) But you can’t have innocent sister, as she is the mom of my favorite neice.
I have only one thing to say to Zenster…
Where, oh WHERE is the fucking? There must be fucking!
There, I feel better.
Well, Zenster, those are definitely Mashed Po-fucking-tatoes. Because as I mentioned many posts ago, I had a serious craving, and now that you’ve posted that recipe I crave them even more…BUT I have no po-fucking clue what a “cube” of butter is!
Please explain. You’re dealing with a pregnant woman’s cravings here…
Ahhh, close enough. I got my fucking elsewhere last night (sans potatoes), so it’s all good.
[hijack] You know what really gets my goat? Recipies that give directions like “Properly cooked potatoes will not quite slide off of the fork when speared.” How the hell am I supposed to know when that is? They don’t seem to slide off the fork when they’re raw, either. I mean, I don’t go around giving people driving directions by saying, “Now drive past exit 42, turn around and go back because you should have gotten off at exit 42.” grrrr. [/hijack]
Just so we’re all on the same page, that should be taken as a humorous reply. No offense, oh master of the recipes.
Oh, and I believe a cube of butter is a tablespoon, right?
:eek:
…and here I thought I was the only one on this board to have heard that atrocity of an album.
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oh and a cube of butter?
I always assumed that was a chunk of butter (taken from the typical rectangles) that is as long as it is wide.
However, at Chez Baboon, more butter is better.
(Mashed Potato Time by Dee Dee Sharp)
Heard it? My God, I’ve danced to it! :o
A cube of butter is a quater pound of butter or 1/2 cup of butter.
A pat of butter is about a tablespoon, mor eor less.
Kallessa (who also cooks, though not as well as Zenster, of course)
Use cream instead of milk.
Cream is good. Sour cream is better.
Heck, I even know how to do the Mashed Potato. It’s not entirely like the twist, as you’re sort of grinding each foot into the ground… and I was born in the 70s. Why do I know these things?
Personally, for my +best+ mashed potatos, I take leftover baked potatos, cut 'em into slices about two inches thick, cut those in quarters, mash with the skins on, and add some nice sharp cheddar. Mmmm.
For the life of me I can’t understand why anybody would get upset over the mashed po-fucking-tatoes. It’s just so irrational.
Everybody knows it’s the gravy that matters. If the gravy is bad, then the meal is ruined. You are making gravy right? You have to make gravy. I need some gra-fucking-vy right now!
I may get smacked for this comment, but…
I’d rather have instant potatoes than real mashed potatoes any day. I hate lumps, and instant potatoes don’t have any, plus they taste better.
::::::ducking and running:::::::::::
Ava
OK, am I blind? I’ve been up and down this thread, and I don’t see any recipe from Zenster, or anyone else for that matter, except for maybe featherlou’s generic description and subsequent additions by other posters.
What’s up with that?
Scarlett, who is thinking that the leftover mashers in the fridge may not be long for this world after reading this thread
Um, yeah, what happened to Zenster’s recipe?