What is the point of Mashed Potatoes?

shellsuit

katholicos wrote: »

I love a plate of mash with salt on. Oh my, it's half past midnight and i could eat a plate right now...yum!

I make little divets in my mash and fill them with salt

I LOVE salty mash.

Oldernotwiser

aliasojo wrote: »

I want to try that, it sounds lovely.

I've never bought mascarpone I dont think....where would I find it?

Most supermarkets stock it and it's really cheap in Lidls. Also wonderful on scones instead of clotted cream!

tomstickland

I love mashed potatoes. That's the point of them.

timmmers

Mash is so useful as well as miracle food....and it's cheap.

With left over mash I :-

add fish to make fishcakes ...coated with breadcrumbs and parsley sauce

add curry powder or spices and fry in breadcrumbs for a late night snack

use as topping for cheese and onion pie, fish pie, cottage pie ..and many others similar.

thicken soup

thicken cheese sauce

frustrate the cats because cats don't like mash no matter how hard they beg

What can you do with a left over chip or roastie? :rotfl:

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I like to stick some Philli cheese in with my mash and a few herbs as well.Its so versatile and where would we be if we didn't have a nice mash with shepards pie staple british food that armys marched on

Justcoll

I love mashed potato but can't abide lumps however small. I used to spend so long bashing them with a masher that they'd be cold by the time they were done..... then some genius invented the potato ricer. Effortless mashing and perfect results. Yum!

Woofles

...and what other food can you draw funny faces in, I'm such a kid sometimes.:rotfl:

janiebaby29

I'm one of the sit on the fence mash brigade , i dont really like chips that much either !!
I dont mind mash on say like a cottage pie or bubble and squeak , but when it comes to a normal dinner , say sausages and mash , i could'nt eat it ,
I however do love smashed new pots , roasted
I'm weird :rotfl:

Chomeur

rosieben wrote: »

bit of a pointless thread really, I could post on here and say what's the point of celery? or seafood? or avocado? or all the other things that I don't like?

The difference here is that this seems to be to be a case of going to quite a bit of effort to make something worse. It seems bizarre to me.

I don't eat mashed potatoes very often as you can guess. But I had some prepared by a French chef on a yacht a while ago and my mother has always made them. I always feel like saying not to bother next time.

They only taste a little bit soapy to me.

And nobody's answered my question as to why not mash up all your food.

carlsberggal

I like all types of potatoes, but love mash especially with gravy. Got a potato ricer and makes the creamiest mash ever - devine!