White Chocolate Mashed Potatoes: CRAZY COOKING CHALLENGE

CRAZY COOKING CHALLENGE #3

Mashed Potatoes

We are in our third month of the CRAZY COOKING CHALLENGE and this month I know we've found a very easy recipe that everyone loves and it's so fitting to be serving this up right before the Thanksgiving holiday. I know we have homemade mashed potatoes every year on Thanksgiving at my house and now I have a BRAND NEW favorite mashed potato recipe thanks to this challenge. We debated between challenging ourselves to find a new and different mashed potato recipe or a new stuffing recipe. Mashed potatoes won hands down, so I hope you all stick around til next November when we search for the Ultimate Stuffing Recipe, but this month MASHED POTATOES it is!!!

Wondering what the CRAZY COOKING CHALLENGE is? Want to join the CRAZY COOKING CHALLENGE? If so, we'd love to have you. Just click on the name above or the tab and fill out the form. You will then be sent an email with all the details. Only participants of the CRAZY COOKING CHALLENGE will be able to have their recipes linked-up, so please come join us for next month when we will be searching for the ULTIMATE fudge recipe.

Now let's get onto where I found my ULTIMATE Mashed Potato recipe, yes White Chocolate Mashed Potatoes. YOU-MUST-READ-ON. I actually had these mashed potatoes for the first time at a restaurant near Disneyland called the Anaheim White House. My husband and I dined there for the first time for our anniversary/birthday get-a-way a few weeks ago. I saw these mashed potatoes after the waiter took our order and I was so intrigued I asked the waiter back so I could order some. They arrived, two little scoops. My husband and I both took a bite and W-O-W, words can not describe the creamy-richness of these amazing potatoes. Let's just say we fought over the rest of the scoop and even drew a line and said "don't pass here". I wanted to savor every bite of goodness of these incredible potatoes. And the whole time I was thinking "how could I repeat this recipe at home".

I knew this challenge was in the works and I wondered why oh why had I never came across these potatoes on a blog? I search blogs all day long (more hours then I care to admit) and I have never seen these. Thus came the search... and really if you put in Red Velvet Cake, Chocolate Peanut Butter Fudge or anything "normal" about a thousand-and-one blogs pop up, but "White Chocolate Mashed Potatoes", not so many... two! Yes, two blogs in ALL of blog world. The blog I decided to read and get to know is called The City Sisters and this blog is SO CUTE! I am so glad I found it.

It's three sisters and you have to check out their about page, I LOVE photos and someday I hope my kids too will think of me and give me a "make mom cry moment". The wedding dress picture they took was so COOL! I have 18 year twin daughters and can only dream of moments like this.

This blog The City Sisters is where I found the White Chocolate Mashed Potatoes (thank you, thank you, thank you) and their very fun Chocolate Dinner Party. I am so excited about this new find. Now, I am just wondering if my mother-in-law will let me make them at her traditional Thanksgiving dinner this year, since I am traveling to Oregon with my son for Thanksgiving. (Even if not, we've made these potatoes about 4 more times since I first made them a month ago). THEY-ARE-THAT-GOOD!



White Chocolate Mashed Potatoes

recipe adapted by me , but found at The City Sisters 

6 to 8 extra large potatoes, peeled and cut into large cubes
1-1/2 cups white chocolate, melted (look for pure white chocolate)
1-1/2 cups milk, heated

Place the potatoes in a large pot, cover with cool water and bring to a simmer over high heat. Reduce the heat and simmer until tender when pierced with a fork, about 25 minutes. Drain in a colander set in the sink.

Return the potatoes to a large mixing bowl and begin mixing. Add in heated milk (not cold) and continue mixing. Add in the melted white chocolate to the still-hot potatoes; stir until the mixture is very creamy. (no butter is needed, the white chocolate takes the place) Serve Hot!

One of my favorite meals is Ikea meatballs and gravy
(yes, you can buy both of them to take home to make).
Paring this meal with the White Chocolate Mashed Potaotes is a meal I will love forever!

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the White Chocolate Mashed Potaotes and VOTE for ME!