After years of experimenting, soul searching, mashing, and whipping, this recipe for chive mashed potatoes is my perfect mashed potato recipe.Perhaps it’s too soon to say forever, but for me, there’s no reason to go back to the drawing board with this recipe in hand!  After Decades of Tinkering, Our Favorite Mashed Potato Recipe In our family, we’ve always been an all-hands-on-deck house when it comes to Thanksgiving.Mashed potatoes were always my job—largely because I cared about them the most!  As a kid, I was the chunky pipsqueak chiming in to say that I didn’t think we had enough mashed potatoes relative to turkey.

(The leftover turkey to leftover mashed potato ratio was vitally important to me, you see.)  And in the rare outing to Roy Rogers (the 90s fast food fried chicken chain, for those of you who grew up outside the Northeast/Mid-Atlantic United States), it was hard to say what I enjoyed more—the fried chicken or the styrofoam container of perfectly peppery mashed potatoes and gravy we got with it.  In short, I was always informally searching for ways to make sure that I had the best mashed potato experience possible!  It started with boxed mashed potato flakes.(Yes we were big users of Idahoan back in the day.There was even a jingle that I would screech periodically.

To be clear, it was my own jingle.The company’s own advertising was apparently inadequate.) And eventually, I progressed to from-scratch mashed potatoes.�

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