Potato (Poh-tA-toe) Potato (Poh-ta-toh)

I am embarrassed to admit that in my almost 10 years of marriage I had never made mashed potatoes from scratch ! We had always eaten the boxed stuff. When we first got married it was plain Potato Spuds from Betty Crocker. 

After a couple years I started feeling adventurous and we branched out to the Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes, still by Betty Crocker.

The last couple years, when I started getting more "health conscious" we made the big leap to Redskin & Yukon Gold Mashed potatoes, from Hungry Jack. What's healthier than Redskin potatoes, right ?

On my recent journey of becoming a more excellent wife and mother I decided to do the unthinkable. I was going to make mashed potatoes from scratch! I found a recipe on SkinnyTaste.com http://www.skinnytaste.com/2011/08/skinny-meatloaf-cupcakes-with-mashed.html

As I gathered my ingredients for the Skinny Garlic Mashed Potatoes, my 6.5yr old daughter came into the kitchen. When I told her I was making mashed potatoes & she saw that I had real potatoes in hand she responded with a, "I didn't know you could do that !" When I asked her to elaborate she said, "Make mashed potatoes from real potatoes" ! Have I ever had real mashed potatoes before?

Apparently my less than savvy cooking skills have been hindering my daughter more than I realized. Needless to say I made meatloaf "cupcakes" & mashed potato "frosting". They didn't turn out quite like the pictures on the website

 But, the kids enjoyed them and it wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. In fact, I think real mashed potatoes will be our new way to eat potatoes. Well, after we finish off the 2 boxes of instant Redskin & Yukon Gold potatoes in the pantry.