Sure, you can mash your Thanksgiving potatoes with a fork
or you can use this fancy gadget. The innovative design uses a spring and trap technique to effectively smash the spuds into smooth oblivion.
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Snoop Dogg was on Martha today, making cognac mashed potatoes. I prefer butter. Lots and lots of butter. And here's how Martha prefers them. Video, after the jump. [via Kathryn Yu]...
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Any commercial with creepily laughing Martians automatically gets an A+ in my book, especially when they're laughing at the way humans take potatoes and "smash them all to bits." How silly us humans must look. They may think we're primitive, but at least we have opposable thumbs; they just flail around with pincers. Watch this commercial for Cadbury's Smash mashed potatoes after the jump....
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Only YTMND could make this work: a bizarre electro remix of the Fresh Prince's Uncle Phil musing about pillowy mounds of mashed potatoes. [via Josh McHugh]...
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Ree over at Pioneer Woman Cooks cooked up some mean mashed potatoes for a pre-Thanksgiving post. Sigh. Mashed potatoes. They’re as much a part of Thanksgiving dinner as pecan pie and Uncle Festus.But mashed potatoes are labor-intensive, and on Thanksgiving Day, that’s not necessarily an asset. The wonderful thing about these mashed potatoes is, they can be made ahead of time, then warmed in the oven when you’re ready. This has made a world of difference in my Thanksgiving Day sanity, peace, blood pressure readings, and hormone levels. The fact that they’re wonderfully delicious is simply the icing on the cake. So let’s go make ‘em. Ree's mashed potatoes contain—get this—butter, half and half, and cream cheese....
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Yesterday I linked to a tongue-in-cheek blog post noting a possible trend involving "weird old guys cooking." Serious Eats member Dee then chimed in with a link to the following video, which I'd somehow managed to miss. Paul McCartney making mashed potatoes: Thanks, Dee!...
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That's a Robert Burns quote. In his honor, celebrate Burns Night tonight by cooking up a few of these recipes. Neeps and tatties, after all, are only mashed potatoes with turnips. If you really dare to be honest, try this haggis recipe. C'mon, people! Fear no labor!...
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