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Old 03-21-2016, 04:32 PM
 
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get a bigger steak, pass on the potato

or


try some tater tots or French fries
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Old 03-21-2016, 05:15 PM
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Location: in the miseries
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They opt for quick rather than good.

Hence potato from a box
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Old 03-21-2016, 05:24 PM
 
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Colcannon, or clapshot, is a nice variation on mashed potatoes. It's an Irish or Scottish thing. It's cooked cabbage with potatoes mashed together, or alternatively, carrots and turnips instead of the cabbage. Butter or cream and salt and pepper to taste. Yum.
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Old 03-21-2016, 06:59 PM
 
Location: Islip,NY
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German fried potatoes (eg Peter Lugers) or fries with steak.


Not mash, certainly not baked. Baked potatoes are for sitting around the camp fire.
OH yes! Peter Lugers Lyonaise potatoes are the best. Reminds me I have a gift card for that place. need to go there soon.
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Old 03-21-2016, 07:00 PM
 
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I wonder how many of these restaurants actually make their mashed potatoes on site. i worked in a restaurant that bought their mashed potatoes by the case. It came in plastic bags pre cooked and chilled, I forget which. All the restaurant did was heat it and serve. It was quite good though. It was full of crap like cheese and butter with skins removed. There were other kinds available like the skins in and a bit chunkier. The restaurant usually got the cheesy ones as they were the tastiest and creamiest.
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Old 03-21-2016, 07:28 PM
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Location: Coastal Georgia
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Perfect Mashed potatoes are subject to different tastes. I like mine a bit lumpy, and others like them like baby food. Some like peeled, and some like unpeeled. There's no pleasing everyone.
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Old 03-21-2016, 08:46 PM
 
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Perfect Mashed potatoes are subject to different tastes. I like mine a bit lumpy, and others like them like baby food. Some like peeled, and some like unpeeled. There's no pleasing everyone.
This -- I can't stand anything but butter milk and salt. Because anything other than that messes with the potato candy.


Oh yes. Potato candy. Take a spoonful of mashed potatoes and add in confectioners sugar till you get a dough -- more stiff than soft, but not too stiff. Don't freak out -- when you start adding the sugar the potatoes go all liquidy, and you want to throw out the whole mess.


Shake some confectioners sugar onto a board and roll out the dough thin -- as rectangular as possible, you're going to spread peanut butter thinly on to it, and roll it up. You don't want tons of layers to make it fat -- more longer, but not too long because you want a few layers as you roll. Slice it thin -- this stuff is SWEET, and if you want melt some chocolate chips and drizzle lightly over the slices. It sort of hardens up nicely... and really you can't sit and eat piece after piece of this. I'm a major sugar junkie and I can't eat more than two pieces.
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Old 03-21-2016, 10:23 PM
 
Location: Heart of Dixie
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Perfect Mashed potatoes are subject to different tastes. I like mine a bit lumpy, and others like them like baby food. Some like peeled, and some like unpeeled. There's no pleasing everyone.
I like them made with red potatoes and mashed until shiny (not whipped), so that's how I make them.
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Old 03-22-2016, 01:23 AM
 
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Please...I'm a foodie. I am not that picky.
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Old 03-22-2016, 01:27 AM
 
Location: U.S.A., Earth
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You have to get a baked potato with a steak, that's a rule. Carved in stone from our ancestors.


Anyway, there's a local steakhouse here that makes insanely good mashed potatoes. I have them with chicken fried steak.
Nowadays, they're onto garlic mashed potatoes now!
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