Ahhh… comfort food! How do you like your mashed potatoes? Smooth? Lumpy? With skin? Without? Russet? Red? White? Yellow? Sweet? When I was growing up, potatoes were prepared the same way every Sunday – cooked in a pressure cooker and mashed until smooth with no lumps whatsoever. Now, I am happy with mashed potatoes every […]
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Roasted Garlic Mashed Sweet Potatoes
Ahhh … comfort food! Mashed potatoes make me happy inside! This recipe using sweet potatoes feels extra special with the addition of roasted garlic and cream cheese. Roasted Garlic Mashed Sweet Potatoes Ingredients: 6 medium sweet potatoes 1 whole garlic bulb 4 oz. cream cheese (1/2 of a standard package) milk salt to taste Instructions […]
Wavy Roasted Sweet Potatoes
I love sweet potatoes and prepare them in some form or another just about every week. Roasting them is one of my favorite ways, since it’s so simple and really brings out the natural flavors. I don’t care for sweetened sweet potato dishes with marshmallows, syrup or sugar, but prefer to treat them as a […]
Purple Mashed Potatoes ~ Yes, Please!
Mashed Purple Sweet Potatoes Aren’t these mashed potatoes fun?!?! They aren’t dyed. I didn’t do anything strange to them. All I did was peel, slice, boil and mash. The only ingredients other than the potatoes are butter, milk and salt – perfectly normal. The difference is the potatoes. I’ve seen them labeled many different ways […]