Garlic Mashed Potatoes

Happy Belated Thanksgiving!

As you hopefully know by now, this is the third part of a five part Thanksgiving series. Here are parts one and two.

The post today is a Thanksgiving classic. Almost everyone loves mashed potatoes. I prefer mine with garlic. A good amount of garlic. If you do not like garlic, I would not recommend coming over to my house for most meals served.

While it's a fairly easy dish with basic ingredients that most of you already know how to prepare, maybe my recipe will offer you something different to try, check it out after the jump.

Garlic Roasted Potatoes

The potato. The most popular tuber vegetable in the world. The potato originated in South America and most of the world's species of potatoes are derived from a single subspecies in Chile. The average person consumes 73 pounds of potato every year. Being Irish, I value the importance of the potato. 

This recipe is the oldest recipe I have and its roots begin in 6th grade. While I was in 6th grade, students were required to take an elective rotation series that included art, computers, drama, and home economics. In the home-ec class we were required cook a meal for our families. One of the dishes I made was garlic roasted potatoes. While I do not remember where I got the recipe initially, I have kept this one in my back pocket.

Now that you have way more information about potatoes and my childhood than you ever wanted to know, I will get to the dish.