Mashed potatoes

[mykpart]

My mother always insisted that with stuffing and sweet potatoes, you didn't also need mashed potatoes at Thanksgiving. I didn't like stuffing or sweet potatoes when I was a child, so Thanksgiving dinner wasn't so great for me. I'm glad I'm grown now and I get to decide what will be on my Thanksgiving table!

[Kali]

1. Bummer. I don't like stuffing or sweets either, but my mom made spuds too.

I still don't like candied sweets or stuffing but I make all three (do love the smell of stuffing but I HATE soggy bread)

[tigereye]

16. I make my stuffing with french bread and saute it

and it's not soggy. I found a great recipe with green apples, pecans and other goodies. It's not my mother's stuffing (actually she likes the crunchy kind), and that is what is cool about doing Thanksgiving dinner yourself!

[Shine]

2. We have garlic mashed potatoes every year. They're a staple at our Thanksgiving feast.

:9 Yummy!! Gotta love the spuds! :thumbsup:

[Rhythm]

3. we have it all...

a gormand's paradise of starches and carbs...

stuffing
mashed potatoes & gravy
sweet potato casserole
potato salad (usually 2 varieties... one hot, and one cold)
baked beans w/chopped up hotdogs and browned hamburger (a food group unto itself)

we're all going to die of coronary artery disease, but DAMN...

now i'm hungry. :9

[GoddessOfGuinness]

4. Why does your mother hate America?

;-)
Turkey stuffing, mashed potatoes, and sweet potatoes are all must-haves here. :hi:

[mykpart]

5. Who knows? But she's one of the reasons

that I'm in therapy.

[smtpgirl]

6. Mashed Potatoes are a MUST for Thanksgiving

wouldn't be Thanksgiving without it

Other must haves

Corn Pudding - Yum
Oyster Dressing - Yuck but it smells good cooking

[LibertyLover]

7. At our family's Thanksgiving dinner

we have mashed potatos, candied sweet potatos, roasted sweet potatos, dressing with sausage and dressing without. Everybody is happy. Of course, there are generally 20 or so people at my cousin's house for dinner, so we need all those sides.

[cwydro]

8. I like having both!

:7

[sarge43]

9. Leave the turkey, bring the smashed taters n/t

[reyd reid reed]

10. If people only made what they *needed* for Thanksgiving

then dinner wouldn't be the affair that it is. Gotta have stuffing. And sweet potatoes. AND smashed 'taters. And gravy.

Yummmmmmm....gravy.

:9

[fizzgig]

11. i was not going to make mashed taters this year

it's just my dad and i and i was just going to do mashed sweet potatoes as i did not see the point in having sweet potatoes and mashed, but then i realized i really wanted both. so the two of us will have mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes and stuffing (well, dressing really). i love my carbs.

[ThomCat]

12. I MUST have both stuffing and mashed potatoes!

And olives.
And Corn Salad.
And Beet Salad.
And a Salad.

Everything else is optional. :9

[DrDan]

13. what is Thanksgiving without mashed potatoes????

Gotta have 'em - and they need to come from Yukon Golds!!

and you gotta double whatever you think you need - so you have leftovers

[tigereye]

17. yes!

:thumbsup:

Yukon golds are great!

[Beausoir]

14. But...but...how, then, do you make the gravy volcano?

That jus aint right.

[QMPMom]

15. It is *not* Thanksgiving without mashed potatoes and giblet gravy.