Had the best mashed potatoes EVER

glenda_al

15 years ago

Thanksgiving at friend, and she prepared mashed potatoes with cream cheese and sour cream.

To die for!

Plus she made a meat dressing, with allspice, etc.

Told her that the potatoes and meat dressing on top would be a wonderful dish for after Thanksgiving leftovers.

Going to sleep with visions of that delicacy.

Of course she had lots of other good eats, but the potatoes and meat dressing, I'll dream of lol

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country_sunshine
15 years ago
I love mashed taters with cream cheese / sour cream... and that meat dressing sounds good too.
glenda_al
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15 years ago
Friend is French Canadian, and she grew up on the meat stuffing. Awesome!
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Jodi_SoCal
15 years ago
I love mashed potatoes with sour cream. Never thought to add cream cheese though. I always add a bit of garlic salt to my potatoes.

Jodi-
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15 years ago
I always make our mashed potatoes with cream cheese with chives, very tasty.
pammyfay
15 years ago
Glenda--I'm gonna assume it was the day's tryptophan from those potato carbs than made you sleepy and unable to get that recipe from her??? Call her! Tell her you teased your KT friends and made them drool on our keyboards and can only begin to earn our forgiveness but that the recipe will be a start! LOL!
Marcia Thornley
15 years ago
I always do the make ahead mashed potatoes with sour cream and cream cheese. Make the day ahead and just pop into the oven until bubbly hot. Delish!!!
That stuffing sounds yummy.
Jasdip
15 years ago
Like Mush, Mom always makes the mashed potatatoes/sour cream, cream cheese and shredded cheese on top a couple days ahead. This is for Christmas and TG.
I posted the recipe earlier this week, or late last week.

One time, she didn't make them, but regular mashed, and the whole family almost had a mutiny! LOL
jannie
15 years ago
I make my mashed with sour cream, but the cream cheese is a different addition. Will try it next time. I once had mashed with some horseradish added-that was very interesting.
karenmay_gw
15 years ago
My favourite way to eat mash is with butter, milk and chopped spring onions.....delicious!

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Jasdip
15 years ago
Jannie, I often add horseradish to my twice-baked potatoes.
It adds a nice bite.
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15 years ago
I started putting meat in my stuffing a year ago. What a difference it makes. I make a plain jane bread stuffing, but add the meat from six hot Italian sausages to it. I fry it up, crumbling it up. (remove it from the casing first). Once the bird is stuffed, I put thick sliced bacon all over the top of the bird and put it in the oven, covered. I uncover the last 1/2 hour to 45 minutes to brown the bacon. Remove the bacon then crumble it finely. In the meantime, leave the bird in the oven and it'll brown nicely. When you take the stuffing out of the bird, mix in the crumbled bacon. I also add cranberries to the stuffing. One of the guys I work with told me his sister did this so I tried it for Christmas and it was an instant hit. You would think the spices from the sausages would over power the 'normal' dressing spices, but it actually enhanced them, with a tiny kick. Even people who don't like spicey would eat it, I'm sure.
lynn_d
15 years ago
We always make sausage stuffing, this is the first year I ever made it outside the bird and it was very good but I have never added allspice, may try that. I always add cream cheese to my mashed taters, and since I am diabetic and need the fat with any carbs that I eat, they are made with cream.
suzieque
15 years ago
Yes - Company Potatoes is what I know those mashed potatoes as. Sour cream, cream cheese, and a good lot of garlic salt. Friend gave me the recipe long ago and I never make them any other way. Easy and even better the 2nd day.
pammyfay
15 years ago
I've seen a "make-ahead" mashed potatoes recipe over on the HGTV cooking forum frequently, a recipe that you make in a crock-pot.

I love horseradish mashed potatoes! Great for any sinus block, that's for sure!
nicole_ont
15 years ago
I always put ground sausage in stuffing.... didn't realize it was a Canadian thing!
deemarie5500
15 years ago
Always add cream cheese and sour cream to my mashed potatoes, along with the cream and butter. Might as well go all the way! Make them up the day before and put them into a large baking dish and pop into fridge. Morning of holiday, I take out dish to almost room temp and then heat/bake in the oven to get a slightly brown top. DH's family goes crazy over them!

Enjoy!
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glenda_al
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15 years ago
The meat stuffing is with two or 3 kinds of ground meat, cooked with allspice and cinnamon, etc.. No bread in it.
pplantlady
15 years ago
That sounds like the ingredients in the Tourtiere. It's a French Canadian meat pie that has allspice, cinnamon and summer savory in some of the receipes. I've only had it as the pie though, not stuffing. I'll bet that was wonderful!
heather_on
15 years ago
I'd love a recipe for those potatoes.

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