no frills, gorg tasty larvelly mash - HOW can i stop my in laws from complaining - or myself from telling them to F*ck the F8ck OFF?

[Tortington]

we have the pleasure of dh's side of the family coming over for xmas.

once we roasted vegetables - and that was toooooooooo fancy for them - roasted parsnip? lord no - its fancy it must be foreign or posh

lord help me

so my step neice (17) continually makes jibes about lumpy mash.

tbh i don'[t know why i put myself through this shit, its an excuse for them to be rude, unappreciative and crass.

i wouldn[t dream of saying their cooking was shit - and it is.

anyway.

so im not going to add anything fancy to the mash like chives or creaaaam....must be butter only.

so i think its got something to do with the mashing technique, i have previously used a hand held basic mashing impliment. and a fork.

i do have a whizzer, not a mixer thingy but a whizzer - not a food processor exactly - a whizzer

i also have a hand held electric thingy - should i buy something else to make unlumpy mash to shut them the fuck up

Bibbity - it worked!!! My mash was fab tonight. No idea what potatoes I had but I cooked longer than I normally would, drained and left lid off for a few mins, mashed and THEN added butter and hot milk. Delish!

Am so pleased your mash was marvellous .

I get OH to mash our spuds because i can't be arsed he is taller than me and can put more pressure on :-D

Mil comes to my parents for xmas dinner and has previously been shocked that we dont have mash with christmas lunch, my Dad reckons it's against the law to have mash with it, we have boiled new potatoes and roasties.

My MIL also thinks Parsnips are a bit 'too fancy' she had never tried them until 2 years ago, ditto for cranberry sauce and chestnuts.

The mind boggles!

LOL! It's very difficult to find parsnips in the shops here (Beglium), because parsnips are animal fodder and no Belgian in their right mind would eat them!! Personally, I adore roast parsnips.

I second getting step niece to mash them herself - what a brat!

Surely you don't even eat the mash yourself anyway Custy? Aren't you a long-term low carber? In which case it is adding spiteful insult to painful injury.

I would spit in their fucking mash if I were you. Right after you put it in front of them.

OR decide to ring the changes and serve a selection of meze for Christmas dinner

Definitely a potato rice but don't even think of telling them that's what you used or they will be horrified at the poncetasticness of it and possibly faint clean away.

which, to be fair, sounds like a win win situation.

ALeo - I lived in Tokyo for a few years, we treated ourselves to parsnips for Christmas only as they were FIVE POUNDS EACH and only to be had in the very posh shops

yes go for it SoupDragon. My brother in Japan misses them too so SIL has to try to grow them for him with seeds sent out by my mum - not sure she has succeeded yet though

When I lived there I was all set to start my own "spudulike" because you can't get a decent baked potato either :)

hmm, perhaps a chain of roast parsnip takeaways with a sideline in baked potatoes?

lol colditz.

a selection of MEZE are you out of your mind? pmsl

thanks all