A New Take on Potatoes

[glasswalker33]

Here's a quick and dirty recipes for my favorite comfort food. It takes a little more time than normal but not much. I'm still tweaking the amounts to get it perfect, but here it is for now.

Garlic Sage Mashed Potatoes

• 1 clove of garlic, minced - not too big now
  
• 4 - 5 leaves of fresh sage, minced
  
• freshly ground black pepper
  
• 2 TB butter
  
• Idahoan complete instant mashed potatoes (the smaller of the two sizes_
  

Now, before you start groaning, I did say comfort food. Which is food you can normally fix yourself when you're not feeling too grand. Hence the instant taters...

1. Prepare the potatoes per the package directions, however, you need to space out some of the steps so that it all comes together at the right time.
   
2. Heat a cast iron skillet over a low heat.
   
3. Add the butter and let it melt.
   
4. Add the garlic and let it brown a little.
   
5. Grind pepper to your taste into the skillet.
   
6. Add the sage and toss it with the garlic, enough for it start releasing some of its flavor.
   
7. After you finish the potatoes, dump the butter, garlic and sage into the potatoes, and stir to combine.
   

A real quick note about how I did this the first time. The kitchen was a wreck, the ants were all over the counter. I had felt like crap all day, and hadn't eaten anything at all. I picked the sage leaves, washed them, then put them in the skillet whole. I sliced them and the garlic in the skillet before I even started making the potatoes. Not really a one skillet meal, but still.

You may need to adjust the amount of sage, as all I could taste was the wonderfuly roasted garlic.

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