How come a lot of steakhouses can't get mashed potatoes right? (peanut butter, cream)

[burdell]

You can always go with another traditional recipe: Steak-frites


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steak_frites

[Missy2U]

It wouldn't occur to either my husband OR myself to order mashed potatoes with steak. Steakhouses are always baked or twice baked.


I have to agree with the poster that mentioned vegetables at a steakhouse - gelofogo. It's funny that he/'she commented on that - the last time we went to a steakhouse, the vegetables we got with my husband's steak were pretty awful - it kind of brought down the whole meal for him. I didn't even order steak -I had Shrimp De Jonghe - I generally don't end up ordering steak at steakhouses to tell the truth - I just can't justify the expense. (Yes, I know I'm weird - but steakhouses also offer me the option of ordering something else I really enjoy that I wouldn't ordinary get anywhere else so it's all good.)


As for mashed potatoes, I only order them when there's gravy to put on them.

[tommyD7115]

I went to a expensive steakhouse in Westchester I had ordered mashed potato's with my steak $9.00 for the side dish they were instant from the box, I should asked for a straw to eat them.

[newcomputer]

because mashed potatoes are best eaten soon after mashing. They do not hold over well. Do you want to wait 20-30 minutes in a restaurant for great mashed potatoes?


Baked potatoes, wrapped in foil, hold well and you can disguise the quality by offering an assortment of toppings. I don't like them but other people appear to like them. I like mine oven baked with a crispy skin like the poster above.


My children use to request that I bring mashed potatoes to family dinners. I would cook the potatoes at home and mash them with hot milk and butter when I got there. Second best, but better than the alternative.


Instant with a little flour added is a restaurant staple.


I order fries.

[animalcrazy]

[quote=Bulldogdad;43424214]Mashed taters with steak?

Get a baked potato, turn it out on your plate load up with butter and sour cream. Get to mashing.

Drives my wife nuts when I do this.

Then I enjoy spreading butter on the skins like bread when they are cold at the end of the meal and popping them in my mouth



Only I like eating the skins with soul cream instead of butter.

John always gets garlic mashed potatoes and they're pretty good too, but there's nothing like a mushy loaded baked potato loaded with melted butter.

[Tallysmom]

Originally Posted by Mightyqueen801

When I ate meat, I always got mashed potatoes with steak, but then I discovered a horrifying truth:

My daughter is gluten intolerant. We figured this out ten years ago. As gluten intolerance became better-known, restaurants started to provide menus indicating which of their items contained no wheat/gluten. Mashed potatoes were not on the gf menu--I thought wtf? Potatoes, butter, milk--where is the gluten?

As it turns out, most restaurants put flour into their mashed potatoes, supposedly to give them a more appealing consistency. I think this should be a punishable offense.

Ewww... kinda like IHOP putting pancake batter in their scrambled eggs. Just wrong.

[Tourian]

I'll eat mashed taters with meatloaf, country fried steak, pork chops, etc..

But with a steak it has to be a baked potato
Butter, sour cream, and that's it. I hate it when the skin is too tough or too bitter to eat because if I do have any butter left from scampi or crab legs it is getting poured on and I will it the rest of it. I love it when it is coated in flaky or chunky salt

[luzianne]

Originally Posted by Tourian

I'll eat mashed taters with meatloaf, country fried steak, pork chops, etc..

But with a steak it has to be a baked potato
Butter, sour cream, and that's it. I hate it when the skin is too tough or too bitter to eat because if I do have any butter left from scampi or crab legs it is getting poured on and I will it the rest of it. I love it when it is coated in flaky or chunky salt

YES on baked potatoes coated with chunky salt!

[bg7]

German fried potatoes (eg Peter Lugers) or fries with steak.


Not mash, certainly not baked. Baked potatoes are for sitting around the camp fire.

[hertfordshire]

Originally Posted by Tallysmom

Ewww... kinda like IHOP putting pancake batter in their scrambled eggs. Just wrong.

And dangerous for a lot of people.

Now I get funny looks whenever I'm eating out and ask if the scrambled eggs have any flour or wheat. Thanks a lot, IHOP!