Boomshakalack 😍
Mash top tip. However much butter you’re adding…double it and then pop a bit more in 😊
Back in 1977, I was shacked up with a French girl called Sylvie and we went over to France to visit her parents.
This was my first experience of home cooked French food, and it was an absolute revelation. Amongst many dishes we were served by her mother who was an excellent cook was mashed potato which I used to hate to the extent that if I was made to eat it I would gag and on some occasions actually vomit. It was then, with some trepidation that I attacked an escalope of veal served with mashed potato. Obviously, I didn't want to refuse to eat it as that would have been rude (especially in France) and in France quite probably taken as an insult to her mother's cooking but on the other hand I didn't particularly want to vomit over my prospective mother-in-law's dining room table.
However, when I actually tasted her mashed potato, it was a revelation; smooth, free of lumps, tasting of butter with just a trace of garlic absolutely delicious! The difference between that and what I had in the past been served at home and worst of all at school was extraordinary. There was no way to believe it could possibly be the same dish.
Ever since that day, I have always been quite prepared to taste mashed potato before rejecting it out of hand as I would have done previously. I never did eat my mother’s mashed potato as she always insisted on using margarine rather than butter and not much of it to boot!
@Paulos_the_fog 🤣 Excellent! Tbh im a masher followed by fork whipping kinda guy!
