50 creative recipes for everybody's favorite comfort food--mashed potatoes.
50 Best Mashed Potatoes has them all, from traditional favorites like Buttermilk Mashed Potatoes and Mashed Potatoes with Cream Gravy to new classics like Chipotle Mashed Potatoes with Cilantro Butter and Mashed Potatoes with Wild Mushroom Ragout. Also included are recipes for mashed potato--cheese combinations and potato-vegetable purées, as well as recipes using leftover mashed potatoes (should you be so lucky). From the most basic to the most elaborate, the leanest to the richest, the humblest to the most elegant, there's a mashed potato for every occasion.
Loving all things potato as I do this book was a must for me. This slim book is filled with quick delicious potato recipes such as Mashed potatoes with Mascarpone and Frizzled Leeks, Roasted Tomato Mashed Potatoes (oh yum!), Mexican Potato Pie, Calcannon (a childhood favorite), Bourbon Spiked Sweet Potato and Pear Puree, Chantilly Mashed potatoes, Pesto Mashed potatoes. Oh I could go on! I've made about half the recipes and loved them all. If you love potatoes you will not be disappointed.
Although nothing can compete with my grandparents' mashed potatoes they used to make when I was a kid - my grandpa would mash and my grandma would add in the perfect ingredients - the recipe for three cheese mashed potatoes comes close...in a spicy kinda way. A wonderful little cookbook that inspires cooks to put new, delicious twists on an old favorite.
Mmm.... I 've had some delightful winter nights with some Mediterrean mashed potatoes with olives and goat cheese. This recipe alone is the worth the high rating... and that is why I have given it 4 stars. If you are looking for consistently great recipes, you may be disappointed.