Mashed Potatoes (Variations)

Prep: 10 min Cook: 10 min Serves: 4

Ingredients:

• 1 pound potatoes, quartered; Optional: peeled
• cold stock, such as: beef, chicken, veal, or vegetable
• 6 whole roasted garlic cloves, minced
• 1/2 c heavy whipping cream, or low-fat buttermilk
• 2 Tbs butter, plus more to taste
• Salt & freshly-ground black pepper, to taste

Optional Ingredients:

• mascarpone cheese
• sour cream

Ingredients For Mash Potato Dinners:

• bacon, green onion, cheese
• broccoli, carrot, cauliflower, cheese, ground meat, such as: beef, chicken, lamb, veal

Directions:

1. In a sauce pan cover potatoes with cold stock & bring to a boil.
2. Cook just until tender -- do not overcook or potatoes will be watery.
3. Drain well, return pan with potatoes to low heat & shake to dry.
4. Heat butter in a small pan & saute garlic.
5. Add butter, garlic, cream, salt and pepper to potatoes.
6. Mash together with a potato masher until ingredients are combined but potatoes are still lumpy.
7. Serve.

Tip: save your starchy stock for: more potatoes, risotto, or soup!