I was thinking last night we should just start a potato thread.

I love mashed potatoes the best (some parts of the country here call them whipped potatoes). With the same white gravy when having fried chicken or a brown gravy when with roast beef or pork or turkey.

Growing up we had a lot of boiled which we'd just mash with your fork on the plate to get the butter mixed in.

Sliced to about 1/8th inch thick and pan fried.

Roasted in say 1/8th of a potato chunks in the pan with the meat.

potatoes a cheap food stuff...that has lots of good ways to prepare *g*

>BTW, while we're on a food theme (Ken Levy well forgotten :-), whenever we see you guys having dinner, on the telly, esp. Thanksgiving and Xmas, you're always passing the mash potato around. It seems you have an insatiable appetite for it. On the other hand we tend to eat roast potatoes where you'd have mash, for Sunday dinner and Xmas, and I've never heard that mentioned by an American. Can't understand it. "Roasties" are one of the reasons for living! (along with Chinese crispy duck, pancakes and hoi sin sauce!)