Subject: Blue Cheese Mashed Potatoes
Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking

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From: Fred Whitlock (webmarketing at kconline.com)
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 08:39:09 -0500
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Here's a mix of ingredients that worked really well together at dinner yesterday. I didn't measure things. Sorry for that but I assume you can work up something similar by adding ingredients to taste:

1/2 dozen red potatoes (It's what I had in the kitchen) peel them, slice them and boil them for 25 minutes or so with a couple of garlic cloves in the mix

Add:
a small bunch of thinly sliced green onions
a splash of buttermilk (a little less than you're used to adding when you add milk to the mashed potatoes-the buttermilk taste shouldn't overpower things.)
A 1/4 cup or so of blue cheese (we used Maytag since we had it) - not too much, about what you might sprinkle on a similarly sized salad for seasoning.
2 tbsp. of margarine or thereabouts
mash it normally and serve.

We served this with sauteed chicken marinated in an italian style bottled grilling marinade with mushrooms and a salad of sliced avocado drizzled with truffle oil and white wine vinegar and a little of the same sliced green onions we put in the potatoes. The wine was Frascati - a dry white Italian wine from near Rome. The whole meal took 40 minutes from start to finish. The mix of goodies played well together. Great meal. Good cooking.

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From: Tom & Laura Frey (tomlaura at vbe.com)
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 09:14:05 -0600
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That sounds delicious, thank you. Of course, this is coming from a hopeless blue cheese addict................<grin> Thanks

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From: Michael (dog3 at mindspring.com)
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 20:05:29 -0600
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Tom & Laura Frey wrote:
> That sounds delicious, thank you. Of course, this is coming from a hopeless
> blue cheese addict................<grin> Thanks

Recipe does sound delicious. Blue cheese doesn't last long enough to get into a recipe here. I'm too busy hacking chunks of it off and gobbling it down.