Food In The Fort

I remember looking around a couple of years ago for a garlic mashed potatoes recipe and coming across a website called Eat Dangerously which was promoting a cookbook of the same name. I loved the site and eventually ended up buying the cookbook for myself and for my parents and a couple of friends. I have since lost my copy (a bunch of books went missing when we moved – if you find my copy of this book or Caesar’s Forms and Syntax, please let me know). You should definitely check the site out: it’s humorously written and full of delicious recipes which live up to the site’s “blow health out your ass” philosophy. They use heavy cream, they aren’t afraid of butter, and they know that seasoning food robustly is not a crime. All this having been said, this isn’t their recipe for garlic mashed potatoes, but I think they might approve.

Our Favorite Lumpy Garlic Mashed Potatoes
Ingredients

• 6 medium potatoes, chunked but definitely not peeled
• 1 onion, chopped
• 6-8 cloves of garlic, pressed
• some milk
• lots of butter
• salt

Preparation

1. Boil the potatoes until tender and then drain in a colander
2. In the potato pot (let’s not wash any more dishes than we have to, okay?), melt a Tbsp or so of butter and saute the onion and garlic until the onion is translucent
3. Turn off the heat and plunk the potatoes back into the pot
4. Mash everything together with the milk, more butter and salt to taste
5. Don’t forget to leave in some of the lumps!

About the author:  I'm a Latin-teaching foodie who has lived (and eaten) in Fort Wayne for the past 10 years. I love all the ethnic grocery stores here and the great Mexican restaurants. Cooking is something that I really enjoy, although I tend to improvise a lot and experience my share of disasters. My parents are both wonderful cooks, as was my paternal grandmother (Oma), and I'm always trying to make things the way mom, dad or Oma did. Read more from this author