Garlic Mashed Potatoes
Mashed potatoes are one of our favorite foods. My husband loves them and so do I. Even the girl loves them and will eat them when she won’t eat anything else. My husband loves the instant mashed potatoes that I’m not a fan of. I didn’t grow up eating them so it’s taken 14 years of being together for me to finally come around to actually serving them every now and then.
But to me mashed potatoes are made from scratch. One of my favorite variations of mashed potatoes is garlic mashed potatoes. Oh they are so yummy. I could eat them and nothing else for a meal.
When I make garlic mashed potatoes, I start by making mashed potatoes but with a slight difference. I leave the skin on the potatoes. So after washing the potatoes, I cut them up in cubes so they will cook faster.
Once the potatoes are done, I mash them up and add butter, sour cream, and garlic. I have garlic in a jar instead of the garlic cloves since I don’t often cook with garlic. Sometimes I even use garlic butter. I melt butter and add some garlic powder. Then I add it to the potatoes. Garlic powder is cheap if you get the generic store brand. It’s good to have around to add the garlic flavoring but don’t have any garlic on hand.
Garlic mashed potatoes give plain ole mashed potatoes a culinary makeover. It’s also very simple to pull off garlic mashed potatoes. Just add a touch of garlic flavoring(or more if you really love garlic) to really spice up those dull mashed potatoes.
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