Subject: Help with leftover mashed potatoes
Newsgroup: rec.food.cooking

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From: hervey at cris.com (Shaun)
Date: 10 Oct 1996 15:16:24 GMT
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I have enough leftover mashed potaotoes to feed a small army. Other than eating them with gravy or possibly repairing holes in the ceiling, what might I do with them? Potato pancakes? Potato bread? What?

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From: nancy-dooley at uiowa.edu (Nancy Dooley)
Date: 1996/10/10
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Both. Also, you can freeze them and use them later. I have a kolache recipe that has a mashed potato dough. You can make potato soup (more like "twice baked potato soup") using the mashed potatoes, Cheddar cheese, sour cream, minced scallions, crumbled fried bacon and parsley flakes.

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From: Nathalie Chiva (Nathalie.Chiva at CI.unil.ch)
Date: 1996/10/11
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Make what in France is called hachis Parmentier:
Fry some ground meat with onions, spices, whatever you like it with. When cooked, put in a deep round oven-proof dish (buttered). Top with your leftover mashed potatoes. Sprinkle with tiny butter bits. Put in oven for 1/2 hour to 3/4 hour. Not subtle, not nouvelle cuisine, but very nice.

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From: Judy Bettinger (jbettin at uswest.com)
Date: 1996/10/11
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I love using leftover mashed potatoes to make soup:

Saute a few leeks or onions in some butter or oil. Or, fry up a little bacon and saute them in bacon fat. (I know, I know - cholesterol city!)

Add a hefty blob of the potatoes, and some skim milk. Heat to a simmer and serve.

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From: Planet (m-harris at postoffice.worldnet.att.net)
Date: 1996/10/15
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Valerie Lauterbach wrote:
>My grandmother used leftover mashed potatoes for lefse,
>potato doughnuts, or a peculiar candy which consisted of
>mashed potatoes mixed with coconut and sugar and formed
>into 1" balls and dipped in chocolate. I don't remember
>what it was called.

Hi Valerie-

In Maine, that candy is called Needhams. We have 1,000,001 uses for potatoes.