{"id":1013,"date":"2011-06-01T14:21:45","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T06:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=1013"},"modified":"2011-06-01T14:21:45","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T06:21:45","slug":"mashed-potatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2011\/06\/mashed-potatoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Mashed Potatoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of days ago I made mashed potatoes to go with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2011\/05\/braised-short-ribs-with-red-wine-and-pureed-vegetables\/\">short ribs<\/a> I was serving for dinners (you have to have mashed potatoes if you serve short ribs!).  Usually, I follow a very good recipe for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/food\/rest\/books\/zuni\/potatoes.html\">buttermilk mashed potatoes <\/a>from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0393020436\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=marga-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0393020436\">The Zuni Cafe Cookbook<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0393020436&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>.  This time, however, I didn&#8217;t have either buttermilk or cream, so I had to use regular 1% milk and butter.  No matter, the mashed potatoes were phenomenal. The kids couldn&#8217;t eat them fast enough.  And really, given how much fat they had, no wonder!  Still, if what you want are really good mashed potatoes, this is the way to do it. Now, don&#8217;t forget to warm up the milk and butter!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 or 3 large russet potatoes<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 cup warm milk<\/li>\n<li>4 Tbsp. semi-melted butter<\/li>\n<li>more salt<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Put salted water to boil.\u00a0 Wash and peel the potatoes.\u00a0 Cut them into large chunks.\u00a0 Drop into boiling water and cook until very soft.\u00a0 Drain and put in a large bowl.\u00a0 Mash with a potato masher. Add milk, butter and salt to taste (taste first!).\u00a0 Whip on the lowest setting of an electric mixer until they&#8217;re as fluffy as you like them, be careful to not overmix.\u00a0 Taste again and serve.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/food\/all.html\">Marga&#8217;s Best Recipes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of days ago I made mashed potatoes to go with the short ribs I was serving for dinners (you have to have mashed potatoes if you serve short ribs!). Usually, I follow a very good recipe for buttermilk mashed potatoes from the The Zuni Cafe Cookbook. This time, however, I didn&#8217;t have either [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,11],"tags":[82],"class_list":["post-1013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-methods","category-recipes","tag-potatoes","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}