Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Food Tip: Mashed Potatoes

I love (and the NerdFamily does too!) mashed potatoes but I hate peeling them. I have a new secret weapon in easy and quick mashed potatoes, Food Mill! Just wash and cube your potatoes, skin and all. Then when they are done you dump them into the mill and turn the handle. You will get velvetey mashed potatoes and all the skins will be left behind. Now you may get little flecks of skin (depending on what variety of potato you are using) but it looks fine and tastes great.


One more tip on great mashed potatoes? Salt the water you boil the potatoes in. That is right, just salt it heavily just like you do to pasta!

4 comments:

Kirby3131 said...

Food mills have always stumped me - I didn't know what they were used for, besides tomatoes (which I'm allergic to) - this might be a mighty fine investment if it works with potatoes.

Have a great day!
Kristin

BarbaraLee said...

My potatoes are pretty dirty. This wouldn't work so well. But I use my thing for hashbrowns.

Carla said...

I'm sharing this with my mom, we eat ours 'smashed', but for holidays, my mom makes perfectly smooth, perfectly white mashed potatoes. We even have a food mill! Great hint:)

Mom2my9 said...

Thank you so much for entering this at Homemaker Mondays! I am going to have to try this. I love that you left the peel on the potato. It's the best part!