October 03, 2004

Mashed potatoes

I'm somewhat terrible at weighing things -- so when the recipe called for one pound of potates, I tried to take one-tenth of the ten-pound bag of potates out. Then I decided that wasn't enough, and doubled the amount of potatoes. I also doubled the amount of buttermilk/butter mixture to add to it. But then when I added the mixture to the potatoes... it seemed like I had made too much. I added what I thought was enough, fluffed it up, and gave it a taste. "Yup," I said, "that's probably enough." Then I added the rest, because really, what else was I going to do with the mixture? And why not have super-decadent mashed potatoes.

They tasted great. Joanie made a stir-fried cauliflower in sesame sauce dish to go with, and that also tasted terrific. There was a lot of white on the table.

Posted by chris at October 3, 2004 09:47 PM