Food, glorious food...

[mrph]

Today featured some unexpected cookery. Not exactly challenging stuff - a purchased pie, some greens, some mash - but quite nice. Now, if I could just get the timings right (and remember to warm the plates beforehand)...

Spinning out of this, a couple of questions for the readership -

1) What's the perfect mashed potato? What, in your opinion, needs to be added to make it a little bit special?

2) Which cookbooks are utterly wonderful things that need to be purchased?

Comments

Re: Thanks!

[giolla.livejournal.com]

Not in favour of skin? Wierdo. Mind if you're keeping the skins on the potatoes need to be decent and not need peeling.*

Add pepper and nutmeg mash thoroughly so the skin is broken up into fairly small pieces.

* At least as good as you'd use if baking in skins.

Re: Thanks!

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

My cooking is based on the how do I turn this fridge full of shite food into a meal school of thought.

Re: Thanks!

[arachne.livejournal.com]

We generally don't fill our fridge with shit food ;)