Cheesey Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes

If you follow me on instagram you may have already seen the giant pile of mashed potatoes I made for Thanksgiving. We always have several kinds of potatoes, but my cousin Marco insists it's not Thanksgiving without mashed potatoes - so it we had mashed potatoes & it was officially Thanksgiving.  This year I added two of my favorite things to our potatoes - cheese & garlic - & mashed them with a supped up version of the potato masher that my cousin-in-law, Mariah, said would've made Grandma O'Hara proud.

Keep reading for my recipe. How do you make your mashed potatoes? Do you use a food processor or go for the full arm work out with a traditional masher?

PS: remember if you have a ton of leftover mashed potatoes you can reinvent them with this recipe!

Celery Root Purée

Recently I've been drooling over all the recipes on the fantastic blog, Oh My Veggies.  This gal Kiersten has some great vegetarian recipes up her sleeve.  Since our fridge is stuffed with mostly veggies, a tiny bit of chicken, some fish & on a rare occasion, red meat, this is right up my alley.  Head over & check out her recipes today. 

I recently the found myself lusting over this post for celery root purée on Oh My Veggies. Then I saw something on Food Network about it & then I was in the grocery store standing face-to-face with the ugliest thing in the produce department - celery root. I took it as a sign from the universe.  It was time to make & try celery root. I can't remember if I've had it before but I really haven't met a root vegetable I didn't like. 

These ugly - yet tasty- roots are what the stalks of celery you're making ants on a log & sticking in peanut butter grow out of. Not sure how they've been such an underdog of the desired part of this vegetable because they're actually really tasty so much so that I think my gal Ashley, who HATES celery, might actually enjoy them.

This purée is a great mashed potato alternative. It has milk, butter & salt mixed in with a root veggie - it's adult baby food & is oh so good.  Try it I think you'll like it.  Chris & I definitely did (read: no leftovers here).

Click through for the recipe that I adapted from the Eating Well recipe that I found via Oh My Veggies & my photos of this quick & easy process.



PS: "Hoppy" Easter :)

(Leftover Mashed) Potato Croquettes

I love mashed potatoes.  Who doesn't? Chris made some tasty mashed taters the other night with leftovers to boot.  Using the cold left over mashed potatoes I reinvented them into crispy crusted croquettes!  Find out how after the jump!

What's your favorite way to reinvent leftovers?

PS: Birthdays continue! Happy Birthday to my godmother, Aunt Lynnie! & my sweet nephew, Derek! Love you both!

Happy Friday everyone!