Mashed: Leftover mashed potatoes
Subject: Leftover mashed potatoes
Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking
From: Pham Phan (Pham_Phan at hp.com)
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 10:26:25 -0800
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Hello all,
After a big Thanksgiving dinner, I have a lot of left over mashed potatoes. Would you please give me some idea to utilize the left over mashed potatoes? Thank.
From: Young (qwerty at mail.monmouth.com)
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 14:28:51 -0500
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Since someone here suggested it, I've found that they freeze really well. Wrap them up in serving sizes and they reheat well.
I'd say make potato pancakes, but I've never been able to get them anything less than mushy.
nancy
From: Bob Slover (BobSlo at flink.com)
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 21:46:38 +0000
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I'll sometimes use leftover mashed potatoes in potato soup
Later,
Bob Slo
From: Liz Hug (lizhug at erols.com)
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 1998 21:26:01 -0500
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And I whisked them into my turkey vegetable soup.
From: ericp at mindspring.com (eric pearson)
Date: Wed, 02 Dec 1998 03:17:08 GMT
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Use the mashed potaotes as a soup base. Add water, bring to a boil, add a clove or two of crushed garlic and a tablespoon or two of olive oil, and a couple of cups of finely shredded cabbage or greens. Cook briefly until greens are tender and you have a good approximtion of Portuguese Caldo Verde!
From: sandynne at aol.com (Sandy n ne)
Date: 30 Nov 1998 19:44:20 GMT
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This is my moms recipe for what she called Potatoe Pancakes.
3 cups cold mashed potatoes
1/2 cup shredded cheese (a yellow cheese, but also good with swiss)
1 egg-beaten
1/2 a green pepper chopped
1/2 onion chopped
4-5 slices of bacon
another egg and flour
Mix the mashed potatoes with the egg and shredded cheese and set aside. Fly up the bacon and cook the onions and peppers in the bacon drippings, chop up or break up the bacon into very small pieces, add that to the potatoe mixture, add the onions and peppers (you may want to drain them on a paper towel first) mix thoroughly. I always use my hands for this to get everything fixed up well. If the mixture is not stiff enough you can add a little flour to it. Then form into patties (like a hamburger), and dip into an egg/water mix then dredge with flour and fry until golden brown on both sides (about 5 minutes I'd say). These are great for breakfast or as a side for dinner. Enjoy!
From: bpartsch at REMOVETHIScarroll.com (Bill Partsch)
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 02:21:27 GMT
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> This is my moms recipe for what she called Potatoe Pancakes.
Man, those sound great! I basically make potato pancakes with whatever I have around. I take maybe two cups of mashed potatoes--no exact measurements, just eyeball it--add an egg, some black pepper and enough flour to give it the consistency of a stiff pancake batter. To this basic mix, you can add darn-near anything: carrot, celery, onion, scallion, chive, spices, herbs--like I say whatever I have around and am in the mood for. In fact, you could probably jettison the pepper and make potato pancakes that are sweet, assuming the mashed potatoes are not overly salty to begin with (like mine usually are).
To cook the pancakes, just heat up some olive oil or canola oil and drop the batter in whatever size makes you happy. You can 'frigerate or freeze and reheat these.
From: noel at texomaonline.com (Oklahoma)
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 1998 15:05:46 GMT
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I have always made a few extra mashed potaotes when I make them so that they next day I can make Spud Nuts. They are a delicious raised doughnut. My family loves them.
Spud Nuts
1 pkg. yeast (I use the bread machine yeast)
1/2 c. warm water
Dissolve the yeast in the warm water
1 t. salt
1/2 c. sugar
6 to 7 c. flour (I use better for bread flour)
2/3 c. shortening
2 c. milk
1 c. mashed potatoes
2 eggs
Scald the milk. Add salt, sugar & shortening. Add the yeast mixture and then the flour 1 c. at a time. Mix all of this until it is well blended.
Let the dough rise in warm place for 1 hour.
After 1 hour roll out and cut into doughnut shapes.
Let the doughnuts rise until double in size.
Fry until brown.
Frosting For Spud Nuts
1 c. cream
1 c. brown sugar
Boil these two ingredients until it reaches soft ball stage
Add either
2 T. coffee or 2 T. cocoa
Blend these all together and glaze onto doughnuts as soon as they are
finished frying.
From: cornie at mindspring.com (amy)
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 1998 17:53:21 GMT
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How about making meatloaf mixture. Put half of meatloaf mix in loaf pan and then putting mashed potatoes down center of loaf. Then put cheese on top of potatoes. Then cover all of this with rest of meatloaf mixture and then bake?
From: Historian (nobody at nowhere.com)
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 15:26:40 -0500
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Shepherd's Pie- any of the countless variations. Generally it's some sort of meat and gravy and perhaps peas, topped with mashed potatos and then baked.
From: kbrown1950 at aol.com (Kbrown1950)
Date: 6 Dec 1998 03:21:51 GMT
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I usually mix the potatos with flour
roll out small portion simiar to pizza dough, place it on hot griddle.
When it starts flip over and do other side. non-greased.We put butter on it and rolled it up. Did it with the leftovers this year.. Kids love it. My grandmother's recipe.
From: Myra Shinkman (myra at primenet.com)
Date: 7 Dec 1998 16:55:50 GMT
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What I want to know is - how the heck to you get leftover mashed potatoes?
No matter how much I make, there's *never* any left over!
From: penmart10 at aol.com (Sheldon)
Date: 30 Nov 1998 20:51:12 GMT
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Potato Knish.... sorry, no recipe for folks to ridicule.
From: Lindsay (linz at earthling.net)
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 14:37:49 -0000
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No idea how much mash you have left over, but how about Concannon? It's an Irish dish ideal for a cold winter's evening and I'm going to make it tonight.
Gently reheat your mash. At the same time chop and steam some cabbage. Mix the cabbage into the mash and pile the whole lot into bowls. Make a well in the top of each pile and dollop on some butter (or similar 'grease' as my dad calls it).
Dip each portion of mash into the melting butter before eating.
Listen to your arteries clanging shut...
Linz
From: Jerry Roush (roush_jerry at htc.honeywell.com)
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 15:07:14 -0700
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Try Hawaiian (Portugese) sweet bread, tho you'd have to make quite a few loaves. Sorry, I don't have a recipe, but I posted a couple of sites earlier. (see "Hawaiian Recipes")
From: alzelt at aol.com (alan)
Date: 30 Nov 1998 22:10:42 GMT
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mix some with chopped onions, and fry them in a skillet with butter or chicken fat.
From: rdyoung at wcc.net (Bob Y.)
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 1998 14:40:53 GMT
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alan wrote:
>mix some with chopped onions, and fry them in a skillet with butter or chicken
>fat.
Use them as a topping for Shepard's/Cottage Pie. Make codfish or salmon cakes. Reheat in the microwave and use for the next meal.
From: Nexis Robinson (nexis at worldnet.att.net)
Date: 30 Nov 1998 23:19:35 GMT
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Mashed potato candy?
From: wstewart at hi.net (Ward Stewart)
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 1998 00:55:02 GMT
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Mix them with egg and a bit of chopped onion and saute them up like hamburgers.
Mix them with milk and some sauteed onions and you have potato soup -- use leeks and you have vichysoise
From: ns9g at aol.com (Bob)
Date: 01 Dec 1998 11:25:22 GMT
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Mix in a litle flour and maybe a little egg, form into patties and fry them boogers.
Or just throw the potatoes in a skillet with a little bacon grease and fry.
From: Richard Caley (rjc at cstr.ed.ac.uk)
Date: 01 Dec 1998 13:23:10 +0000
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That perenial favorite of r.f.c `bubble and squeak'. Potato, onions, cabbage, any other left overs, mixed and fried to a nice golden brown.
I should also pass on my father's varient. Mashed potatoes and canned peas. Has to be `processed' peas, may not be possible in the US - when an American friend of mine first saw these things he couldn't believe anyone would sell something so obviously dyed bright green . Turns the potato a rich green colour. Sounds and looks very odd, but I was a convert at an early age.
From: dajazlvr (dajazlvr at clark.net)
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 08:40:43 -0800
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Southern Leftover Wrap
collard greens
mashed potatoes
turkey
stuffing
giblet dressing
spinach tortilla
Layer the tortilla with greens, potatoes, turkey, stuffing. Pour a little gravy over the mixture. Fold the tortilla into a wrap.
Now that's good eating!
From: parvax at aol.com (trisha)
Date: 2 Dec 1998 08:03:10 GMT
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i like to fry them with seasoned salt and pepper
From: Miriam Podcameni Posvolsky (miriamp at pobox.com)
Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 15:13:17 -0300
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This is a gret recipe to use leftover mashed potato:
Potato Shrimp Roulade
Recipe By: Miriam Podcameni Posvolsky
Serving Size: 4
Categories: Fish And Seafood, Potato
1 1/4 lb potato -- cooked and mashed
1 Tablespoon butter
3 egg yolks
6 Tablespoons flour
1 cup milk
3 egg whites -- whipped
salt, pepper, nutmeg -- to taste
1 yolk -- to glaze
2 Tablespoons Parmesan cheese -- grated
2 Tablespoons dried breadcrumbs
Filling
1 lb shrimp -- cleaned
1/2 cup heart of palms -- diced
3 large tomatoes -- peeled and seeded
1/2 onion -- chopped
1/2 green pepper -- chopped
2 Tablespoons olive oil
1 Tablespoon parsley -- chopped
salt and pepper -- to taste
1. Cook the potatoes with the skins, peel and mash while still warm.
2. Add the eggs and then milk alternating with the flour. Add salt, nutmeg and pepper.
3. Butter a 10 by 9 " baking pan and sprinkle it with flour.
4. Whip egg whites until firm.
5. Fold them delicately into the potatoes.
6. Spread the batter on the baking dish and bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Let cool 3 minutes
7. Unmold it on a cheesecloth sprinkled with Parmesan and breadcrumbs
9. Let cool another 5 minutes and roll it up jellyroll fashion., until ready to use.
10. Unroll, spread the filling and with the help of the cheesecloth roll it up again.
11. Baste with the egg yolk, sprinkle more cheese and bake at 350 F until golden brown.
Serve very hot.
Filling:
Cook onions in oil until transparent.Stir in green pepper and chopped tomates.Cook until tender.Add shrimps and cook until opaque.Season with salt and pepper. Stir in parsley and hearts of palms.Turn off heat.
Serving Ideas : Serve with a green salad
NOTES : May be done with chicken or beef as well.