so my family really loves garlic mashed potatoes. i mean, we love potatoes in any variety, really. baked, mashed, deep fried, boiled, microwaved, spiced up, cooled down, on top of eggs, in potato salad, raw, whatever. we love potatoes. but adding garlic makes them extra special and fancy, just like in the restaurants! and i wanted to try it.
and so, as i do whenever i want to learn something completely foreign and new, i googled.
and i got recipes. ooooh i got recipes. from alton brown, from emeril, from users like you. each one had its own brand of fanciness, its own particular sparkle power involving some herb or cream or special whipping process. and every single one required about ten too many steps than i was willing to take to make some freakin potatoes. so, a couple of weeks ago, i threw everything into a pot in a grand experiment. i peeled the garlic and the potatoes, boiled them together with a little sea salt, and mixed them with the mixer. and voila! garlic mashed potatoes. i repeated the process tonight. call me crazy, but...
that was really easy. and AWESOME.
meanwhile, back at the ranch, itunes has been left to its own devices on shuffle. it seems that my computer has an affinity for the dance of the sugarplum fairy, which it plays about every five songs. i believe this to be an attempt at mockery in my general direction, but i'm not sure how or why. it's particularly disturbing when i try to think of when i would have put any sugarplums or fairies on my hard drive, and can't remember ever doing so. clearly there is something more sinister at work.
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