Do you FANCY UP your mashed potatoes? (what's in them?)

I make mine with garlic, butter, plain yogurt & a little bit of milk. Season w/ salt & pepper. I use red potatoes for Thanksgiving.

No! Sacrilege!

LOL Seriously though, we are purists when it comes to these sort of things. Fortunately DH and I are on the same page about this.

A little bit of:
garlic
sour cream
butter
milk or broth

Always delicious!!!

I like cream cheese and half and half and butter in them. DH's family likes cheese in them, but to me, that only goes with beef, not poultry.

I keep them plain - just butter and milk. Then I whip the hell out of them so they are nice and fluffy!

My family thinks I'm fancy because I leave the skin on, lol. I use red potatoes, butter, milk, salt and pepper. That's as fancy as I am allowed to get around here, lol.

For Thanksgiving, we do butter, cream, Golden Yukon potatoes, salt and pepper.

On other occasions where no one would be putting gravy on their potatoes I will sometimes add in blue cheese crumbles. I like the blue cheese version with steak or roasted chicken.

Another favorite is butter, cream, sour cream, sharp cheddar and minced onion...those I put in a casserole dish and bake for 30 minutes after mashing.

My dh and I deemed my thanksgiving mashed potatoes as the best I've ever made. I made them today so all I have to do is throw them in the oven tomorrow. Here's what I used...

7 lbs red potatoes
2 sticks softened butter
1.5 packages of softened cream cheese
1 tsp salt
pepper to taste
quart light cream

Deeeeeelicious. Heart attack material? For sure, but delicious.

Years ago, a gal on the old AOL scrapbooking message boards shared her recipe for them with whipping cream.

OMG ... seriously awesome.

You mix some whipping cream and butter to make the mash which you put in a casserole dish.

Then you mix up the whipping cream so it is whipped and then fold in shredded cheddar cheese.
Put that over the top of the mashed mixture and then bake until the top turns golden brown.

I shared it once with a friend and the following years after she had me bake 2 huge foil dishes of them for the YMCA Christmas party.  

Bonus - the topping keeps the mashies really toasty warm! 

It's a calorie free day after all!

I make mine loosely based on her recipe.  My dh doesn't care for season salt so I just use regular salt.  But they are SO creamy and delicious and I love that I can make them ahead of time.

Yukon gold potatoes, real butter (and lots of it!), hot milk, salt and pepper. We're purists here. I like to taste potato.