Hi Y’all! Tis the season for some yummy comfort foods right?
So here is one of our family faves…
Mashed potatoes is usually a win win for most families but occasionally it is good to change it up a bit. Hopefully your families will entertain this version…
About 12 to 15 potatoes (depending on the size of them)
1 8oz. block cream cheese
3 to 4 garlic cloves (feel free to add what your family likes best; more garlicy or less)
about 2 large scallion stalks
1 stick butter
about 1/4 to 1/2 cups milk
Take out cream cheese and butter to soften a little. Peal and cut up potatoes. Place in dutch oven and cover with water. Separate and peal garlic cloves and place in water with potatoes. Boil on high heat for about 20 minutes or until tender. In the mean time; slice scallions into small bite size pieces. Cut up cream cheese into chunks. When potatoes are done, drain and return to pot. Be sure you are using a pot that you can use an electric beater in. Place in softened cream cheese and butter. Add in scallions and milk 1/4 cup at a time. You don’t want it to be too soupy. Use electric beaters on low to mash potatoes and garlic. After they are mostly mashed, bump the speed of the beaters up to medium to whip the potatoes. You may serve gravy on these but they are yummy and creamy all by themselves. Besides, they play nicely with the garlic and scallions to give a wonderful flavor without needing gravy. Enjoy!
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Hi, I’m Cyndi! I am a wife to a wonderful God-fearing man for almost twenty years. I am a mom to an ambitious comedic eighteen-year-old son and a spirited fun-loving sixteen-year-old daughter. I love to cook, create anything I can think of to make, talk and visit with friends and even strangers, and of course I love to write. Along with the writing, I love to read what other people write as well. I would love to live in the south somewhere but for now I live more in the suburbs of a town in Michigan. Oh yeah… and I’m almost blind. This means that I have to do things a little differently. It takes a little more time and a little more patience to get things done, but they get done. I was told of my eye disease when I was nine years old. At forty-four, they still cannot diagnose what I have for certain. However, I won’t sit still while they try and figure it out. Each day brings different challenges and some of the same as well. Navigating new territory is the most difficult thing for me to do, but I refuse to be held back and take the chance on missing out on an exciting new adventure. My bucket list holds adventures like parasailing, visiting Ireland, having at least one book published, and I’m sure there are more that I haven’t listed yet. Painting word pictures is my therapy and sanctuary. I use life as my brushes and paint. Lite me a candle, put on the spa music and a-writing I will go. Come on this journey with me, I hope you can find some new colors you like.
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