What do you put in your mash potatoes?

[PhilosophyStoned]

I usually put a knob of butter but trying full fat mayo tonight due to accidentally opening two jars, so need using up. Wondering if I am missing other good alternatives?

Sometimes, I make sweet potato mash, the I put a little dark soya sauce and chopped green onions in the mix.

Butter, splash of milk and loads of mature cheddar cheese.

Ive added spring onions before, but my teens hate onions

Butter , milk/cream, salt and sometimes an egg yolk .

My dp makes the best mashed potatoes anyone has ever tasted. I don’t want to know what he puts in them- he says it’s his Irish granny’s secret recipe. I suspect it’s an entire packet of Kerrygold….

Just butter, milk and salt/pepper here, not too much butter it's only for texture, don't want it to actually taste buttery. Not keen on added flavours, I tend to put all those in the main dish of the meal instead. I like mashed potato to taste of mashed potato.

Edited to add definitely no cheese, the two don't go together at all.

Heretic opinion here, though I often make my own (with Roosters for preference) I have found ready made mash quite good, it's just potatoes, milk, butter and black pepper. Slightly expensive, but a handy time saver for me when I'm cooking for one.

Yesterday dinner was sausages with mixed ready-made mashed potatoes, ready-made mashed carrots and parsnips, and chopped shallot and fresh chives and lovage, and it was delicious.

If I was cooking those veg myself before mashing them I'd steam them, not boil them.

I use a potato masher. Gets the job done.

That's what I typed. Autocorrect "kindly" changed it for me. Autocorrect obviously wanted to make a point.

I put the same.

Grainy mustard is nice especially with smoked haddock cooked in butter.
the best mash I’ve ever had was made with yoghurt and a pinch of asofetida.

Butter and milk

cream at Xmas

Always butter, but sometimes add cheese or mustard and my uncle got me into mash with celery added - sounds awful but it was actually really lovely.

I buy it. Life is too short for mashing potato’s when the stuff you can buy for a quid tastes just as good.

Butter, cheese and a teaspoon of wholegrain mustard. I think this is the reason my husband married me

🤣

A bit of marmite and butter.
Delicious!

Pedant! 😄 Muphry's Law!🤪

The bloke off Saturday Kitchen says 2/3s mash to 1/3 butter 😱

Onion of butter, splash of cream and a spoon of Dijon mustard

Sorry to be pedantic but it’s “ mashed potatoes” or “ mash” - I am definitely turning into my DM! 🤣

If one more person says egg, I'm going to shoot them

a pinch of asofetida
What??!

It really isn’t!

What is the difference between mashed potatoes and potato purée? To me, mashed potatoes are the watery clumps of tasteless starch that were served with school dinners in the Seventies. Having been brought up in a household which cooked the French way, my own potato purée is made with lots of butter, some gold top milk or cream, salt, pepper, and nutmeg. I’d never thought of adding mustard of any kind, that sounds like a good call. I often add grated cheese (preferably Gruyère) on top and put it under the grill just before serving.

I agree with @Nincompoo that ready-made mash is excellent. Checking the ingredients here: 86% Rooster potatoes (my variety of choice anyway); 5% salted butter; 5% whole milk; 3% double cream; salt; cracked black pepper.

And we're told that potatoes that have been cooked, refrigerated and re-heated have more resistant starch.

Chives and plenty of butter!

Don’t bother with the mayo, it adds nothing but extra calories.

i use a knob of butter and a lot of coarse rock salt and pepper.

the potato ricer is massive agg but it’s worth it